ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



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Preservative qualities of the water of 



Salt Lake, 171. 

 Proctrotretus, 341*. 

 Productus, 16, 19, 401. 

 Productus costatus, 411*. 

 Productus semi-reticulatus, 54, 411*. 

 Promontory Point, 169, 172, 297*. 

 Provaux City, 142. 

 Provaux River, 219, 225. 

 Pseudostoma castanops, 313*. 

 Pterocyanea rafflesii, 307, 322*. 

 Pumbar's Creek, 78. 

 Pungun Spring, 294*. 

 Putorius erminea, 311*. 



" vison. 311*. 



Q 



Quartz, 102. 



Querquedula carolinensis, 322*. 



K 



Rabbit Hollow, 232. 



Railroad route, 220. 



Railroad to Pacific, 263. 



Rattlesnakes, 174. 



Rattlesnakes in holes of prairie dog, 37. 



Rattlesnake, mule killed by, 70. 



Rattlesnake Creek, 246, 285*, 300*. 



Recurvirostra americana, 320*. 

 " occidentalis, 326*. 



Red Buttes, 62. 



Red Chimney Fork, 79. 



Red Fork, 222, 224, 276, 279. 



Red Kanyon, 300*. 



Red Springs, 214, 274*. 



Reptiles collected, 336. 



Revenues of Utah, 132. 



Richard's Post, 288*. 



Rim Base, 280*. 



Rock, Independence, 274*. 



Rock-gate Camp, 166. 



Roofing slate, 161. 



Root-digger Indians, 82, 148. 



Roseaux River, 88. 



Route, new, through the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, 261. 



Routes from Fort Bridger to Salt Lake 

 City, 75. 



Route from Fort Hall to Salt Lake, 93. 



Route from Salt Lake City to California, 

 87. 



Routes to Salt Lake, 139. 



Routes to Salt Lake Valley, 227. 



Rumex venosus, 394*. 



Rush Creek, 94. 



s 



Sabbath, importance in travelling as a 



day of rest, 22. 

 Sage, 160. 

 Sage Cock, 319*. 

 Sage Creek, 242, 300*. 

 Sage Hens, 70. 

 Salseratus, 417*. 

 Salgeratus Lake, 274*. 

 Salt bed, 110. 

 Salt deposites, 158. 

 Salt Lake, antiseptic quality of its water, 



171. 

 Saltness of the water of Great Salt Lake, 



102. 

 Salt pools, 62. 

 Salt, solid crust of, 190. 

 Salt Springs, 101, 117, 118. 

 Sandstone, 16, 27. 

 Sandy, 275*. 



Sandy Creek, 26, 70, 271*. 

 San Pete Creek, 294*. 

 Sarcobatus, 160. 

 Sarcobatus vermicularis, 394*. 

 Sauk Indians levying tribute, 17. 

 Scarcity of timber about Salt Lake, 



122. 

 Sceleporus graciosus, 346*. 



" grammicus, 344*. 



" microlepidotus, 344*. 



" scalaris, 347*. 

 Scirpus torreyi, 397*. 

 Scott's Bluff, 62, 272, 288*. 

 Sealed wives, 136. 

 Sections of strata, 20, 21, 23, 25, 34, 35. 



39, 42, 44, 48, 54, 56, 57, 58, 67, 73, 



91. 

 Sego, 160, 169, 208. 

 Senecio filifolius, 391*. 

 " hookeri, 391*. 

 " hydrophilus. 391*. 

 Sessions settlement, 215*. 

 Settlements, mode of establishing by the 



Mormons, 142. 

 Shale, 16. 

 Sheep Rock, 88. 

 Sheep, Rocky Mountain, 312*. 

 Shepherdia argentea, 395*. 

 Shoshonee Indians, 77, 97, 174, 232. 

 Sialia macroptera, 307, 314. 

 Sidalcia malvasflora, 384*. 

 Sidalcia neomexicana, 208. 

 Sigillaria, 403. 

 Silk-plant, 175. 

 Silver Creek, 222, 279*. 

 Sioux, 44. 



Sioux, dead bodies of, 43. 

 Siredon lichenoides, 336*. 



