Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-15
COLONEL FREMONT.

1t gives us great pleasure to insert the suboinec
letter from Col Fremont, not only because it con
tadicts the exaggerated reports of deaths sustained
by his party and assures us OF the intrepid explo
rcr's own safety, after his two months bold jour
ney through the mountain wilds in mid-winter, but
because his success seems fully to have established
the favorable nature of the central route for rail
road in winter as well as summer .'..
*PAnAwAs, IRON County,. Uran TERRITORY,
FEBRUARY g. 1854.
Nj DEAR SIR: have had the good fortune to meet
here friend Mr. BABBTT the Secretary Of the Terri
tory who is his way Washington, in charge of the
mail and other very interesting dispatches, the impor
tsnce Of which urging him forward with extreme ra-
pidty. lie passes directly this morning, and have
barely few give you intelligence of our safe
arrival and Of general good health and reasonable
success in the object of our expedition.
This winter has happened be of extreme and un-
usual cold Here, the citizens inform me, it has been
altogether the seyerest since the settlement Of this valley
Consequently, far the concerned the main
condition Of exploration has been fulfilled We en-
tered the mountain regions the Huerano river on the
Sd of December and issued from it here on the th OF
this month"; arriving here yesterday afternoon We went
through the Coochaope Pass the 18th December with
four nches-not feet, take notice. but inehes-of snow
the level among the pines and in the shade on the
summit of the Pass This decides what you consider the
great question: and fuls the leading condition of my ex
ploraions and therefore 60 further into details il
this letter. i.
congratulate you on this verifcston Of your judg-
ment and the good prospect it holds out Of final
in carrying the road by this central line Nature has
been bountul to this region in accumulatng here with
in few miles Of where writing, vast depostes Of
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lity and great and powerful interior State viii spring
up Immediately in the steps of the Congressional acten
which should decide carry the road through this
gon In making my expedition to this pontI save near
ly parallel Of latitude shortening the usual distance
from Green river to this point by hundred miles
In crossing to the Sierra Nevada shall go direct by
unexplored route, aiming to strike directly the TETON
Passes at the head Of the San Joaquin valley through
which in 1850 drove from two to three thousand head
of cattle that delivered to the Indian Commissioners
shall make what speed possibly can, going light, and
abandoning the elaborated survey of my previous
line, to gain speed. T..
Untn within about hundred miles Of this place had
daguerreotyped the country which passed. but
forced to abandon all heavy baggage to save the
men, and shall not stop send back for it. The Della
all in sound but the whites Of my party
a exhausted and broken up and more less roebiten
iost one MI FULLER OF 81 LOUIS assouri, Who oiea
entering this valley. He died like man, horse
back, in his saddle, and will be buried like soldier,
the spot where he fell M.'
hope to you in Washington. Mr. Babbitt ex
poets you before the end of March Among other
documents which he carries with him the Maps and
Report Of Capt. Gunasons party.
Sincerely and affectionately,
JOHN G. FREMONT.
Col. Benton, Washington.
PS Thsis the Little Salt Lake settlement and
enced three years since Population four hundred
and death by sickness since the settlement made
We have been most Hospitality received Mr. Babbtt has
been particularly kind and has rendered very vaua
Bile assistance. ..-..... .....s> .", .>
C*Vaey of the Parapan, about 60 miles east Of the
Of Santa Clara, between 81 and 3S degrees Of
north latitude and between l3 and Id degrees of
longitude: elevation above the about 5000 feet