ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED FOR ROADS. 219 



Estimate of cost of the eoustruetion mat impron-ment of Captain Simpson's mu/on-roml 

 from Fort Bridger to California, via White Clay Creek, Tim)iano?/<>± ('anon, Camp 

 Floyd, and his more sotUhern or return route over the Great Basin. ' 

 For portion of road from Fort Bridger to divide between Silver Creek and 

 Timpanogos River, to be expended principally in White Clay Creek 



Valley $20,000 



To buy ont the interest of the Territory of Utah in the turnpike portion of 



the road, in Timpanogos Canon, as above m 19,997 



To improve said turnpike portion by widening it and elevating it sufficiently 

 in places above the contingency of high water in the Timpanogos, and 

 for general! v repairing the road all the way from the divide between 



Silver Creek and the Timpanogos River to Camp Floyd 10,003 



Total required for portion of road from Fort Bridger to Camp Floyd 50,000 



For route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, via General Johnston's [pass of the 

 Guyot range, and Captain Simpson's more southern (or more northern) 

 route across the Great Basin (as the War Department may direct), and 



for making water-tanks 50,000 



To carry the road across the first or most eastern range of the Sierra Nevada, 

 from Genoa to Lake Valley, either by the west branch of Carson River, 

 or the Daggett trail, as may be found most expedient by the engineer in 

 charge, and in the latter case the road to join the old one at the summit 



of Johnston's Pass, or where most advantageous > 30,000 



Total amount required for the whole road from Fort Bridger to Johnston's 



Pass 1 30,000 



In the foregoing estimate I have assumed that it would be best for the Govern- 

 ment to improve my more southern route over the Great Basin. I have done this 

 for the reason that though this route is 29 miles longer than my more northern route, yet 

 the grades of the former are better, and the grass, timber, and cultivable soil upon it 

 more abundant, and the water equally if not more abundant. Should, however, the 

 Government prefer to improve the more northern route, on which the mail and pony- 

 express are now running, the above estimate will hold equally good, only instead of 

 the phrase "more southern route," that of "more northern route" should be used. 

 Indeed, it might in the low appropriation be left optional with the War Department to 

 apply the money on either route as it might deem best. 



So much for the road from Fort Bridger to California. By referring to my journal, 

 under date of August 12, 1859, it will be noticed that I explored a very favorable pass 

 from the valley of the Timpanogos to that of Green River, over the Uintah range of 

 mountains- This pass can be made available for wagons by the removal of the timber 

 in Coal Creek Valley, on the north side of the pass; by the removal of the willows and 

 construction of some causeways in Potts' Creek Valley, on the south side of the pass; 

 and the filling up of some of the gullies in the valley of the Duchesne's Fork. The 

 cost of this would be, say, *20,0()0. This done, the valley of the Duchesne's Fork of 

 Uintah, and possibly of Green River, would be opened to settlement, and the result 

 eventually follow of a wagon-road communication all the way through from the val- 

 ley of Great Salt Lake, by the way of the Timpanogos, Coal Creek, Potts' Creek, 



