The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-31
COLORADO.
What the Powell Exploring Expedite
Uncovered.

What the Powell Explorins Expedition Has
The st. Louis Democrat publishes the con-
cusion of Jack Summers narrative of the
Powell expedition in Colorado The character
of the country and the animals are described
thus
GAS an agricultural valley it does not amount
to much, rs it is too dry on the uplands and
there are but few meadows on the river bottom
and they rs a general rule are small-trom fifty
TO two hundred acres in extent. The only eX-
ception that ] know of is one opposite our pre-
sent camp, lying between Green and White
rivers. 1t is about two thousand five hundred
acres in size, aud ovcrilows, though very seldom.
At present ii Is clothed with n thick growth of
grass, waist high. On the uplands there is the
common bunch grass of the West-short
but very rich. No part of the country
that we have seen can be irrigated, except
the river bottoms, rs the uplands are rolling
and cut up by bitches in almost every
direction. But for a stock country it would be
hard to excel as almost all kinds would do well
on the bunch grass throughout the entire year.
There is plenty of lumber for building purposes
and fuel, ind enough farming land TO produce
all that large settlement would require for
home consumption. But there is one thing in
the way. According to the treaty of 1868 be-
tween Governor Hunt of Colorado, and the Ute
Indians, most, If not the whole, of this valley
belongs to the reservation, selected by the In
dians themselves. Whether they will be per-
mitted to keep it or not remains to be seen.
Most likely they will, MS one band of them have
a permanently settled thing of it, and have
a winter agency twenty-five miles from
this point on Uinta river. What the coun-
try is below know not. As far as the eye can
reach there is a rolling prairie with dark line
through IL that marks the course of the Green
river 1t is reasonable To suppose it TO be the
same character of country that we have
passed through in our last two days travel. So
far we have accomplished what we set out for.
We were told by the frontiersmen while at
Green river that we could not get to the mouth
of White river One man that filled the inn
portant office of policeman in Piedmont had the
assurance TO tell me that no boat could get rs
far down as Browns Hole. We expect To re-
main here for n week to meet Colonel Mead, and
send off some specimens and all the notes and
maps, to make sure OF that much.
Total distance run, 1856 miles, estimated dis
tance TO junction of Green and Grand rivers, 800
miles by river.
LIST OF ANIMALS LIVING IN THE COUNTRY
THROUGH WHICH WE HAVE PASSED.
"GriZzly bear, cinnamon bear, black bear elk
mule deer, mountain sheep or Zighorn, prong
horned antelope grey wolf, prairie wolf, cougar
red fox. marten, mink lynx, wild cat prairie
dog, beaver, otter, muslIrat, badger, ground hog
mountain rat grey prairie squirrel, large striped
ground squirrel small do. do, small shrews and
mice.
LIST or BIRDS SEEN OK THE WAY.
''Wild geese ducks of almost every kind, loon,
stork, bittern, cormorant, rails wOOdcock, snipes
of many kinds, curlew, osprey, pelican, sand
NIL cThut' uAlu tHEits Soluch tslElt' NploItu
raven, common crow, Clark's crow, sage grouse,
black grouse, short tailed grouse, magpie, long
crested jay, Canada jay, light blue jay, red
shafted cckeT, small blackbirds, red-wingcd
startling, Southern mocking birds robin, brown
thrush, crOss-beak wren, sparrOws, sparrow
hawk, sharp-shinned hawk mouse hawk, pigeon
hawk, mourning dove, meadow lark, wood
peclers of all kinds and buzzards.
~ write this ut the request OF Professor
Powell, he urging me from the beginning to do
so while l. knowing there were many able Mons
in the party, persistently declined, till could
no longer do so with any show of rCasol. |
have written this with many misgivings, being
more used TO the rifle, larat and trap, than TO
the pen. Receiving no hints from any one, |
have been compelled to write rs / could Were
/ to study grammar little, and sacrifice truth
TO flights of fancy, might make more inte
resting report, but | shall let il stand as it is
If il meets the approval OF the public, well and
good; II It does not, will leave the report OF
the rest of the trip to other and abler hands.
and return TO my rifle and trap.
Jack SUMNER, Free Trapper."