KKPOJiT AND JOU 



connection. Another would be 



', not to 



down the branch only about a 



mile, to 



about 100 yards up a high ridg€ 



» on the i 



8 or 9 miles above the point o: 



f juncti( 



connection would shorten the 



present 



about 12. 





The first route could be or 



►ened by 



days between Fort Bridger ai 



id Camj 



two longer. 





In respect to the character 



■ of the r 



route, and the bottom of the Wc 



>ber, thoi 



would furnish a drier road than 



White ( 



that, though the grass along it 



might p 



side of the range, between tl 



ie Webe; 



exceedingly hilly, and, as the em 



»il is ver 



become packed by use. Anotl 



road could net be' used early ii 



i the spr 



will testify ; and that when the country i: 

 almost, if not quite, as exceptionable on th; 

 in preference take the old Echo Canon ron 

 the Weber to join my Timpanogos route ; 

 route I have just explored should be opene 



Lieutenant Murry and Lieut anant Pu 

 difficulty in getting the train of my party « 

 fact that the traveling time from Camp Flo 

 that in every instance they got into cam 

 in favor of the route. 



There is a slough, however, about on 

 branch of Bear River which should be coi 

 delay. Ten men, with two wagons and sh 

 days. This done, in ordinary dry weathei 



it could be made a good road at all times. 



them to take 



them into 



Camp 



Floyd, as well as a ps 



The names ( 



>f these gv 



mles a 



re Charles E. Colton 



Heber City i 

 I have descri 



in Round 1 



We, 



and either of them, if 



It mighi 



t be best, ii 



istead « 



3f taking up the botto 



the Clarke's Canon from the 



