Identifier: explorationsurve002stan (find matches)
Title: Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains.
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Stansbury, Howard Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 Birard, Charles Frédéric, 1822-1895 Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880 Torrey, John, 1796-1873 Hall, James, 1811-1898 United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church
Publisher: Washington : Robert Armstrong, Public Printer
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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both the shore party and themselves while pass-ing to and fro over the plain. In addition to this difficulty,how were the provisions to be carried and cooked ? These con-siderations induced me to hesitate in risking the lives of mypeople by attempting to penetrate this desert, where the slightestderangement of the measure by which they were to be suppliedwith water might prove fatal. The appearance of the plain indi-cated that the lake had not been over it for very many years, forit was thickly grown up with grease-wood; and the great proba-bility, if not positive certainty, was, that, as the waters wereevidently in a state of subsidence, they would never again over-flow it. As, therefore, my object was to survey the shore of thelake in its present stage, I determined to abandon, in this instance,the storm-line, and to run the line of survey to a point west ofthe water, as it then was, and thence to strike across the flat toStrongs Knob, triangulating upon the prominent points of tlie
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WESTERN SHORE STRONGs KNOB STATION. 199 diflFerent ranges, so as to obtain their general shape and distances,and sketching in the intervening ground. This course wouldsecure all the ends of practical utility, without the hazard anddelay to be incurred by penetrating the desert. The hill from which we made our reconuoissance was about threehundred feet high, and consisted of coarsely granular and earthyhmestone, terminating to the northward in a perpendicular cliff ofthe same formation, in horizontal strata of only a few inches inthickness from top to bottom, the whole of which was iu a state ofrapid disintegration. Friday^ June 7.—As it was not expected that the line couldreach Strongs Knob before the following day, and there was nointervening point that could be reached by the larger boat, pro-visions ready cooked and the blankets of the shore party weretransferred to the skiff, whose crew was directed to coast along theshallow water as far south as they could get, and then to land

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