The hydraulic press., 1859-10-22

think the summit is reached at all until he
sees a streamlet ripping to the east. Yet
this is the Henness Pass. Through this
canon, if such it can be termed, the road
only requires an occasional Strengthening,
the cutting away of some brush and dead
timber, and an improved grade over few
places which are unusually rocky. Proceed
ing through Webber's level ranch, and on to
Naples, no work is needed but about half
a lnile of grading around one small hill.
Following down the Little Truckee, the road
passes through constant succession of lev
el, grassy wales, and only needs straighten-
ing, clearing Of brush, and small stones
here and there, until slight gravelly rises,
about ni4e across, are encountered Here
small boulders must be removed, and lit
tie grading done, but no heavy work is ne
cessary. Passing over these rises, Sardine
Valley, another pasture vale, is entered and
trayersed without an impediment. 1t ends
in more gravelly elevations, which are strewn
with small rocks and bushes and the road
will need about the same improvement as
before. Dog Valley is the next and last of
the series of valleys lying along the Little
Truckee, and is separated from the basin of
the main Truckee by the worst hill on the
whole route. The old road, like ali pioneer
highways, gees directly over the steepest
side of this hill, and is surmounted with
much toll and difficulty. Yet even this can
be easily overcome by beginning new piece
of road from the valley, and rounding the
hill with grade of six feet in the hundred,
making q mile to its summit. The grade of
the descent on the eastern side to the True
kee, about two miles long, can be reduced
to about eight feet in the hundred, without
deep excavation or blasting. Indeed, there
is no deep excavation required anywhere on
the entire route, nor any rock blasting, un-
less, perhaps, little may he necessary in
going from Milltown to the summit. Once
on the Truckee, 20 more work will have to
be done on the read, except where it passes
through some boulder-strewn surfaces, when
1t will have to be cleared and now and then
Strengthened. Thenceforward it passes over
the rich grassy plains of the Truckee Mea-
dows and Steamboat, Smiths, Washoe and
Eagle Valleys, an uninterruptedly coed
thoroughfare.
We have thus circumstantially and faith
fully described the present condition of the
Henness Pass route to Western Utah, and
told what, in the opinion of experienced and
cool calculators, it demands to make it un-
except;enable. The entire cost of the re-
pairs and improvements enumerated, tits cal-
culated will not exceed $4,000. The basi-
ness communities which are to be benefited
by the completion of this great road, may
consider themselves fortunate that their
wants can be so cheaply met, and they will
no doubt eagerly contribute the funds that
are required, whenever called upon to do
so. We are informed that several of the
most prominent business men in this vicin-
ity have already signed a call for prelimi-
nary meeting of these who are interested in
this project, to be held at Plum Valley, ST.
ezra county, On the and of November, for
the purpose of taking measures for the Or
ganization of a joinst stock company forth
with. The company organized, thorough
survey will be ordered and made ;mmedi-
ately, if the weather PERMITS SO that upon
the opening of another summer the work
can be be vigorously prosecuted to compile
pletion. In future numbers of the Press,
we intend to discuss the advantages certain
to attend the opening of this route as pro-
posed, and will present facts and arguments
gained by impartial personal observation.