APPENDIX a 



The following letter from I'.vt. Bri»-. Gen. A. S. Johnston, commanding 

 ment of Utah, to Col. Samuel Coper, Adjntant-General United States Ar 

 August 26, 1859, in reference to the roads 1 have explored and opened in I 

 presented in extcnso, both on account of the value set by the general on t 

 have opened, and of the intimation it gives of his having instructed me 

 certain portions of them with a view to the formation of an estimate for t 



reported, in his finding the 



search for the route 

 see of the Plattes, Ar 

 The only question, 



.nojro.ran.n .ml to r, imbur* «h. ... fi« tl.d. -mtl n n .kin,., r F of th „ h1 u.d tor the expens, 



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An estimate siifrt. eiitl.\ , « i ■ . r , upon \\ i. t<» ton >\ in ippropi uiun < m U tunn-ncd i»\ (. aptam Minps 

 o I requested to look at the route, on his return, with that view. 



ThTlLTmonsTow chargeTheavy toll on the graded road down the canon and across the bridge. This r 



