312 Biographical Sketch of the late John Evans, M.D. 
country infested by hostile savages, require the wisdom, coolness, 
and intrepidity of an old border warrior to ensure success. 
accomplish such feats, and return in safety, was the fortune of 
the subject of the present sketch, and though, unhappily for his 
country, he died before his valuable reports had been published, 
bs doubt not the Government will duly make public record of 
is labors. 
to the entire satisfaction of his employer and the public 
; ‘6 % t d of the 
In March, 1851, he was appointed, by the Secre in Tine of 
” an 
wrty-si forty-nin 
and through that pass from the forty-sixth to the ne ss 
plored, and he crossed the Bitter Root range of monn 
which are one hnndred and twenty miles wide, and ag 
the country to the Spokane, Clear Water, Snake, Walla 4 ses 
Utillah, John Days, and Falls rivers to the Columbia, and the 
to Oregon City. 3 43 and 
He collected specimens of all the rocks, minerals, fos! is - 
soils of those Sip Bet 3 regions, and forwarded them ips 
scription and analysis to some of the most skillful minera teh 
paleontologists, botanists, and chemists of the United 25 ily 
among whom we may name Dr, Owen, Professors Li ot ae 
Shumard, and Lesquereux, all of whom were supplied wit aa 
Be materials for their scientific examination and descrip 
o the author of this paper he sent specimens of large 
scription, and of coals, ores of iron, lead and copper, and a pie 
number of selected soils, and a piece of very remarkable 
oric iron, for analysis. 
