The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-19

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Baasca, and above those usually travelled-at one
Of the rsaotsst hesd-sprnss Of the Husrfane
without obsruston o abrupt descent Along the sr.
the s:oun. The straight river and the open valley
h 70 break the line q sight or ebsracs the course
Of the road On either side 81 this line hills slope
tumnal grass and the water which flows smoothly be-
tween not interrupted BY fall In Its course to the
Here is section Of the route above seven hundred
miles longbepg than half the distance to CAlfor
na-in which there 10 elevation TO arrest the Vision
"a r vh hs you %gn. Gox down upon the was distance
Of Missouri from the mouth q the frat pass in the nrst
mountain being than half the lsngth Of tho road
fair surface At the commencement This arst pass is
called the Sand Hill or Robidoux through which Ere
o% snt s,S he vale. e San % s1S the s,
valley and its continuation, (the sAhwatch,) TO the
Coocbatope the ground Is smooth present
earth. Meeting horseback in this long level
OF more than hundred and twenty miles, Counting the
entire valleys Of San Luis and the sshwatch like
Eg ship at sea- You his head 6rst then his body
then hi. horse, and At last the ground. The
pass itsel. a. we'll ~ the approaches to it, is per-
rsyr Bs and a Hat san open easy ous:son
whether they had passed the dividing point be-
tween the eastern and western watsrs-which could
pass Itself, Of which they made drawing grand
and beautiful They say Of IT. Lofty mountains their
to the clouds; while in our immediate vicinity were
softly rounded hills, clothed with grass and A9wers with
rich meadows between; through which numerous rlls
But why multiply words TO induce conviction whom facts
are nj hand to command il. Facts enough abound to
sho~ the fssy o. this pass even IN state Of nature
summer of 1853, twenty Of them guided by Leroux for
Captain Gunnison-the rest by emigrant families, with
travelled 1t always-those best Of engineers, whose
instinct never commits mistakes, and which in their
mgratons for pasture, shelter and salt never fail to
lind the lowest level In the mountains, the shAowest
fords in the rivers the richest grass, the best salt
ticks, tho most permanent water; and always
take the shortess and best routes between all
these points OF attraction TheN instructive explorers
raversed this pass and gave it their nameCoochatope
IN the Stan language rrfo as Csooos IN the spanish
Of the Buffaoes And their bones and horns, strewng
the ground attest their former presence in
had to their destruction at such crowded point
of rendezvous This is enough to show that the Rocky
Mountains may be passed without crossing hil-that
loaded wagons may it at all Of the year.
This applies to the Coochaope pass but there many
Others and all good and it Is curious detect the Latin
the Spanish transIations Of the original indian Thus
we see forta in puerto "a gate Christianity recurring
Puerto del Cbolos Puerto del Aosca in which latter
besides the porta we detect the Latin mxsca, (Hy,)
those insects which the Indians found in IT. Puerto del
In word there difficulty about passes the only
bother is TO ,hoose out of many, all good both in
themselves and in their approached This enough for
the passes with respect to the whole mount region,
and the facility Of going through it, and INHERENT
lines have also The evidence of facts which dispense
with speculation and assertion That region was three
times traversed, ana on different routes, BY Messrs
Besle and Heap In the summer Of 1858. II happened
hus when they had reached the east fork OF tho Great
accident Of overturned canoe their supply of NUM-
tons both for the gun and the mouth and were forced
to send back to the nearest settlement for further sup
distant three hundred and thirty miles, and that dis
lance to be made upon mules, finding their food,
dition, one thousand miles from the frontier
Of Missouri and these mules, (thus already
grass ahorded,) made the double distance at the
rate of forty miles dAyslu finding their own food ;
and, on the return bringing packs on their backs.
mountain region between the Upper Colorado and the
valley Of the Upper Del Norte is well adapted to travel
ling, and that in state Of nature and also well sup
Piled with nutritious grass and this clears Of the
Rocky from which to the Little Salt Lake it
is all open, practicable way-not limited to track,
but travsrsable any line Loaded wagons travel it in
state OF nature Tho valley Of the Colorado is either level
rolling the Wahsatch and Anterra ranges perfo-
rated By ncessant valleys and from the Little Salt
mont last winter, the way nearly levea succession
Of valleys between the mountansand terminated by
superb pass debouchng into the valley Of San Joaquin
Fremont referring to previous Indian information says
Of it =
when the point was reached found the Indian in
formation fully verified the mountain suddenly tcrm-
pated and broke down into lower grounds barely
the level of the country and making numerous open
ings into the valley of the San joaquin entered into
the first which offered (taking time to search,
entirely out Of provisions and living upon horse
which led us by an and almost level hollow thirteen
miles long to upland not steep enough to- be eallei
HILL into the valley of small aduent to Kern
river; the hollow and the valley making together way
where wagon would not and any obstruction for forty
miles
And this completes ell that is necessary to b. shown
In favor Of the smoothnes Of the wayits equality of
surface throughout the whole lnelthough 1t attains
great elevation and lands you In California, in tho
rich and unsettled valley Of San Joaquin proximate
to the southern end Of the gold mines. Not tunnel
to be made mountain to be climbed hill to be crossed
o swamp to be seen, desert, movable sand to be
encountered, in the whole distances and all this equality
Of surface Theoretically determined by Fremont
road, the longest and straighteat in the world also
the snoothcst and most equal surface. For, al
though great elevation is attained it is long line
and gradually and impcrceptiby-the mere rise Of
inclined plane
Rivers to be passed are distinctions to roads, to be
overcome by large applications Of skill and means: and
here again the central route is most favorable The
entire line Is only crossed in its by the streams in
the valley OF the Upper Colorado and those Of incon
siderable width with solid banks and stone for brdges
On this side Of the Rocky Mountains the Of the
river is parallel to that Of the roadthe Kansas the
and the Huerfano being all in its line Beyond
the valley Of the Colorado, river at all only small
streams.
In this description Of the country have relied chiefly
Fremont whose exploration, directed by suthor
ty connected with NO company, swayed by interest
wholly guided by himself and solely directed to the pub
lie good, would be entitled to credit upon his own
port unsupported by subsidiary evidence; but he has
not left the credit his report to his word alone He
has done besides, what no other explorer has done.
He has made the country report itself Besides deteri
ming elevations, barometrcaly, and fixing positions
Economically and measuring objects with practiced
syebesdes all that he has applied the daguerreotype
art to the face of the wild country and made II speak
for itself Three hundred OF these views illustrate the
path of his exploration and compes every object to
stand forth, and show itself as it is or mountain
ck-forest-grass-snow, (where there is
any and naked ground where there Is not-an exhibit
themselves they For Daguerre has power to
conceal what is visible to exhibit what il exist
ent He pencil to substitute fiction for fact,
fancy for memory. He is q machine that works to
pattern and that pattern the object before him :;
ana in this way has Fremont Reproduced the country
from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and made II become
the reflex Of its features, vewable to every be-
holder; and that nothing may be wanting to complete
the information subject of such magnitude, he has
gone back to give the finishing look at the west end
Of the line, which thirty thousand miles of will
dcrness explorations in the last twelve years at his
suggestion, and the last half at his cost)
authorize him TO believe is the true and good route for
the rrnd which Ia n unitp the anti the