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forms the dividing range between the White River and the Williams 

 Fork and Waddle Creek tributaries of the Yampah. It is. a broad, 

 rolling, heavily timbered range, with several prominent cone-summits, 

 as Pagoda Peak and point 9-XXIX, and has three easy passes. An 

 old trail crosses between Pagoda Peak and the plateau from the Wil- 

 liams Fork to the White; a good trail crosses between Pagoda Peak 

 and point 9-XXIX from the main branch of the Williams Fork to the 

 White, at an elevation of 8,300 feet, and the Government wagon-road 

 crosses through Yellow Jacket Pass, west of station XXXI, at an eleva- 

 tion of 7,493 feet. 



The plateau continues to the southwest, forming the divide between 

 the White and the Grand Rivers, but it loses the distinctive mesa char- 

 acter to a great degree, and becomes more like a high, rolling range; 

 the streams flowing south cut deep, profound canons, while to the north 

 sloping spurs and hog-back ridges divide the tributaries of the White. 



ROADS AND TRAELS. 



There are two roads that penetrate this country, the Government 

 wagon-road from Rawlings' Spriugs,on the Union Pacific Railroad, to the 

 White River Indian agency, and the one known as Berthoud's Salt Lake 

 wagon-road. 



The first, starting from Rawlings' Springs, crosses the old stage-road 

 to Salt Lake City just west of Bridger's Pass, then following the valley 

 of the Muddy, crosses the Little Snake at the settlements, and, cross- 

 ing to Fortification Creek, follows that for most of its course, and fords 

 the Yampah River just below the mouth of Elk Head Creek and half a 

 mile east of Morgan's trading-post. It then follows a nearly straight 

 course, crossing the Williams Fork and the Waddle, through Yellow 

 Jacket Pass to the agency. 



The second, which is a road surveyed by Capt. E. L. Berthoud, in 

 1861, from Golden City, Colo., to Provo City, in Utah, via Berthoud's 

 Pass and the Hot Springs, in Middle Park, crosses the Park range at 

 Gore's Pass at an elevation of 9,590 feet; then through the small group 

 of meadows drained by Stampede Creek, across a low divide to Sarvis 

 Creek, and down that valley to the Yampah. For the last few miles it 

 leaves Sarvis Creek and follows down a small side-stream. Within a 

 few years, since the discovery of mines on the Elk and Snake Rivers, a 

 number of teams have been through by this route, and they have broken 

 a road from Stampede Creek through to Egeria Park, and that is now 

 the passable route, the former one down Sarvis Creek being but a trail. 



Passing through Egeria Park and down the Yampah for seveu miles, 

 it follows a nearly straight northwesterly course across to Oak and 

 Sage Creeks, then bearing to the west across a low divide east of sta- 

 tion XXIV to Skull Creek, and once more meets the Yampah, which it 

 follows down till it joins the Rawlins road. This is the route that is 

 now used, but Captain Berthoud's surveyed road divides on Sage Creek, 

 one branch passing up Sage Creek and across to the Williams Fork, 

 and the other leaving the present road at Skull Creek, passing up Skull 

 Creek to the Williams, where it joins the other brunch, then across the 

 hills to the range east of Waddle Creek, where it joins the present road 

 to Simpson's Park and the agency. This portion of Berthoud's road 

 from long disuse has become nothing more than a trail. 



From Simpson's Park the road follows down the White to the junc- 

 tion of the Green, then up the Uintah River and the Duchesne Fork, 

 and down the Timpanogos to Provo City, Utah. 



