222 WEBER FORD — RED FORK. 



tical trap dikes were observed on the hillsides ; and one, in par- 

 ticular, consisted of what resembled a gigantic stone fence, half a 

 mile in length, regularly laid up, the stones composing it being 

 entirely separate from each other, and from six to eight feet cube, 

 the whole presenting the appearance of a fine specimen of Cyclo- 

 pean masonry. 



The road pursued by the train crossed Silver Creek, and con- 

 tinued down the right bank of the Weber for seventeen miles, 

 where it was forded, and the camp made for the night. Grass 

 and fuel plentiful. The Weber bottom, as far as the mouth of 

 Red Fork, five miles beyond, presents many beautiful little prairies 

 on either side of the stream, fringed with belts of large cotton- 

 woods, affording good locations for many small grain and stock 

 farms. The rock observed from the road was principally a light- 

 gray, fire-grit sandstone, with a dip of 30° to the north-west and west 

 north-west, some pudding-stone, and earthy red sandstone. Day's 

 march, nineteen miles. Lat. 40° 53' 41''.3 Lon. 111° 36' 26''. 



Sunday^ September 1. — Engaged in drying up after last night's 

 rain, which had thoroughly soaked a portion of the baggage. In 

 the afternoon the arms were cleaned and inspected, and the men 

 engaged in firing at a mark. 



Monday^ September 2. — Last night was quite cold, and at sun- 

 rise the thermometer stood at 33°, with a heavy frost covering the 

 ground. The horses took a stampede during the night, being 

 frightened probably by a bear or a wolf, and this morning were 

 very wild and difficult to catch. The cattle evince an obstinate 

 determination to run back on the road, and require a constant and 

 strick guard to prevent them. 



The road continued down the valley of the Weber, now reduced 

 to about a mile in width, being confined on the right by high 

 rounded hills, with gray sandstone cropping out, with a dip of 30° 

 N. N. W. Crossing a small affluent, called Morin's Creek, and a 

 short distance farther on another, for which the mountaineers have 

 no name, it not being deemed worthy of notice by them, as no 

 beaver had ever been found in its waters, at five miles we 

 crossed Red Fork, at its junction with the Weber, which is here a 

 clear, rapid stream, one hundred and twenty feet wide, and two 

 and a-half deep in the channel. At the junction, meridian obser- 

 vations gave for the latitude 40° 57' 41". Distance from Salt 

 Lake City, fifty- four and a-half miles. 



At this point the old road-turns ofi" to the right in nearly a north- 



