Identifier: reportsofexplora02unit_0 (find matches)
Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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FROM GREEN TO WHITE RIVER. 63 hills, the upper strata of which were red, and the lower resembling the yellow argillaceous sand-stone of the Arkansas river near Bents Fort: a few slate ledges also crop out. We passed butvery little grass, and but few cotton-wood trees were seen along the dry streams, sage coveringthe bottoms. At our camp to-night, on the hills, we have bunch-grass, and a fine cool spring ofwater, called Akanaquint by the Utahs. Average ascent per mile, 35 feet. October 3.—Travelling sometimes in the bed of the creek, (dry above the spring,) and at othersover the rocky, friable soil of the hills, we made but slow progress this morning—about six milesin as many hours—on the Spanish trail. Its course then bore off more strongly to the west, oververy rocky, broken hills—and we left it, taking a northwest and a north-northwest course by com-pass, leaving these rocky hills to the left, and skirting along others to the right, as rocky but per-haps less broken and cut

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