New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-30

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uo,. e,viou.: the ,rsdu,i melting Of IT,, saox-
,r,il, III, ,i,uhts fGaieo by the sP--dy ne.ti of
Tel, raters; ADD llas cons dsTab''s brnk. are
formed spd poured dbvn up'n w. .ubj aceu. pl,ia'.
a. rr observe 10 aud sscubd Salt L,ke City, aud
nor,b ard vest Of Lake U'.ab. Thu. are formed
Bear add W,b-r River: sucb, beleye, is toe
origin Of the Humb' ,Idt Blu. such Instances are
for too rae 10 Utah. From the Jordan TO toe
Humboldt il aoOu, $50 miles By tue route
Travelled, sri in oil that di-tspcs the brook. ADD
rills or, ssed or saw, could they be collected toto
one ctapr.l, would barely form decent mil
sJesm. tptbce ,rave!s daEB tae south SIDE OF
be Humboldt for 225 uiles snd in all tue; distance
not mere ,bsn two tributaries come 10 90 thN
tioe a. lteir united current, would barely snihce
10 tu,n c,it dstope This desolaton seem, there
fore Iredteusbe.
The mountains Of central Utah are less hopeless
than the Plans. Contrary TO my former i'm
preston, they are fairly wooded; by witch
IL can that wood is procuIable on them at almost
apy point This wood is f., the most part Cedar,
six t, ten feet high, and from foot downward IN
di meter pear the ground. White Poe. of lac
size, and Of equally scrubby character, are quite
common in the western part of the mountains
irayer.ed, and there is some Bilssm Fir IN the
d, etsr cshons, which sttains diameter Of Is to
90 inches and hight of 40 to 90 feet. Or this
Fir. several Of the m,il-station cabins are con Q
structed in Ruby VALLEY, they have Oae Of Red or
Iodian Pine; but th.y are quite commonly built OF
stones and mud. One On the Humboldt. Is butt III
dvsrfwlo canes or wsttles-Dot one OF cedar or
Of the varied White Pine Of this region. Neither
could be made TO answer.
But must hurry on. At Pleasant Naley'we
turned north. west up broad rsvloe, and th'nce-
forth held that general course TO reach the Hum
boldt, instead Of still making wet southwest
directly toward Carson Valley, as it is proposed
hereafter 20 do if that be found practicable, For
,be pext 40 miles or tbere,bouts our trail led US
mail " ID ole side of mountain range and down
the Diner, thence across valley of some ten niles
iD " id,h 10 the foot Of another chain, aud 90 on
As the trail naturally runs up the deepest cipons
and over the loWest pssses, the ascent and descent
ore rarely abrup, for sDy considerable distance and
We seldom lacle water, but our route was The
most devious imse insbe-rausiDg from northeast
Oh one hand TO south on the other. Sometimes two
or three hundred square miles were vl.lo'e at
ol,nee-tbe mouD,ao.sides half covered with Ced.r
and Pine, with some dwarf Wil,Ts aud Rose
bushes often frDging their slender rlvuen; bat nos
q tree other than Evergreen in sight. There is
large, pine-leaved shrub or small tree
y bicb driver termed Mountain Mahogany aud
9 psssep ger called Red Hsw, growing sparinsly
among the eyerereens on some mountain slopes,
which ST. ems about half way between thornbush
and an uptrimmed appe-sree, but nothing slse de-
ciduous above the sizs of the dwarf Willow. Eseo
the Ssgebush apd GreasewoOi appear to be ever
green's Grafs is here not abundant bat ubf,lllag,
az 1t murt be where water is perennial ADD wood
in fair supply. The plaios or valleys remain as
further east, cave that they are sma ler, and, be-
cause Of the less scanty supply Of water, more
susceptible Of improvement. AT Shell Creek, ~
miles from Pleasant Valley, where we spent or
next night, there is a little garden-the first
stree Camp Floyd-snd at Ruby Valley, 80 miles
or so further on, the Government has Z farm 10
CROP intenoed for the beDef. and partly cultivated
oy tD6 jhOcI Oh Tue nclSlVoilpg inI'ns' 'ho
nlastatlon slso has its garden, and is eating al
abundance Of bay From this station. II is ex-
pe c,ed that the new cutoff saving 100 miles or
mole 10 distance TO Carson Valley, will be- made,
so soon as those nov scrutiDizng it shall have
pronounced it practicable.
AT Ruby, the stage usually stops for the night;
but We hsd been siI days making rather less THAI
800 miles, and began to grow impatient. Tue
driver had his own reasons for pushog 90, aud did
so, over a rosd partly mountainous rough and
,idtlipg; but, ring q. p. NJ, We bad reached
tie next pine Valley station, 40 miles distant,
before Eur riss. Here we were detained three or
four hours for mules-!hose We should have taken
being sstrsy-but at We started With new dti
8 deep, miry stream-a drove of thousand head
Of cattle (the fret ever driven over this road) htv
ing recently passed, and torn the fcail bid &c ~
pieces. Our lead mules went down in pile, bat
were got u and out aud the wagon run over, after
a delay Of an hour. We soon rose from Pine Val.
ley by long, irree ular, generally moderate ascent
to mountain disite, from wtica our trail took
abruptly down the widest and worst canon ever
saw bSversed by carriage. Ii is in places barely
wide enough at bottom for q carriage and if
tso should meetlere is scarcely possl Die toi. they
should pass. The length of this canon il mile and
half; tue descent hardly less than , 900 feet; the
side of the road next to the water )urse often far
lover than the otber the road bed oiten made of
sbsrp-ed oed frsp uents of broken II hard enough