Butte record., 1855-02-03
INQUIRIES.

INQUIRIES.
l. If you have within the past six
velrs, crossed the Plains, to or from
California, once or oitener, state by
whate route, and at what period of the
year, and what was the average length
of your trips; and if by different route
state the time of the year, and the
length of your trip by each route State
also, through what p 'ss Of the Rocky
Mountains. or the Sierra Nevada, your
route lay in each case.
q Stae as far as you can, the num-
Der of immigrants and amount of live
stock that have come across the Plains
by any of the routes with which you are
acquainted, within the past six years,
(including in the year 1851, or in a ~
year of the six, ami by what route
3. State what route has been the
most travelled within your observation,
and by what proportion of the immi-
grants in the respective years above
mentioned, or any Of them, and state
also which, in your judgment, is the
most pract cable for an easy, expeditions
and 'fe Immigrant Road, between Cali
fornIa and the Mississippi Valley.
4. State the general character of such
most practicable route, as to soil, levels,
grass, water, d stance from its eastern
to its western terminus, and the number
and character of the stations at which
supplies for men and tile can be OBJ
tained, with their locations and distances
from each other. Give a description of
the route between each of its chief points,
with the distance in miles as nearly as
you can, from point to point.
5. State what is necessary, and what
is first to be done, to convert such route
into an Immigrant Road, of the charac.
ter described, having reference especially
to digging wells, to bridges or ferries
over streams, &c. State during what
period of the year it could practicable
for travel.
6. Ii, on any considerable portion of
such route there is want of wood for
fuel or building purposes, &C., state at
what points and for what length in miles.
STATE if on such portion the want of
wood can be supplied by adoJes or other
wisr, and how the want of fuel is to be
supplied.
7. State your opinion as to the prac-
ticability Of establishing and continuing
along such rout', at intervals of say
twenty miles, stations for supplies for
men and cattle and in this view state
the number, character and location of
the settlements already existing along
the route. State the portions of the
route where such stations would be most
difficult; and on such portion the prac-
ticability Of such stations during the
year 1850.
s. II the route which you regard as
the most available is some other than that
which is most Travelled, state fully and
particularly your reasons for prefer
ring it.
9. State the practicabiliiy of such a
road without line Of military posts,
established by the United States Gov.
ernment; and if such line is, in your
judgment necessary, the location of those
posts, their distances apart from each
other, with the number of men and the
defences requisite for each.
10. State anything else you can to
throw light upon this subject, or which
has any bearing upon it. State fully
particularly
BS-Number your answers to the above
inquiries, "I," s2," 80 &c, ac-
cording to the number of the inquiry to
which each answer relates.