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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s, and then turned west, following the Sahwatch creekfor six miles, where we crossed it for the last time, and left the main Indian trail which still fol-lows that creek, which rises considerably to the south. This main trail is said to lead throughthick forests of timber, through which it would require much labor to open a wagon road to Car-neroPass, equal if not superior to that of our route. We pursued for three miles a fine branch ofthe Sahwatch, coming in from the north, when we left it, and, turning west, followed a branch ofthis creek, and after a march of fifteen miles, encamped where a low opening in the mountainsafforded a small supply of grass, and enabled us to enter and encamp with our train. Thevalley of the Sahwatch to-day continued narrow, as at our camp last evening, and the trav-elling in it very fine, at this dry season. The valley of the next branch was still narrower,varying from 130 yards to 150 feet, and the travelling equally fine; and in the succeeding valley,
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