Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-05-06

region fully developed. Leaving Larame
about o'clock, p. M, wo passed Wyoming,
Eoopor's Lake, Lookout, Miscr, Rock 0rcek'
and Como. The route along thes valley to.
Como Lake is made by manypwindings sThe>
noted Elk Mountain seeh from Ijaraue, as
we pass out is to. ourlwest, but. .,ereIwe reach
Como.we find herat our back, but winding
we go, apd finally she stands before us bid
dinsds on. This is nothing now but.a sage
brushregion that nothing but the sage hens
eat Como luke is q oloar looking stream,
but the water is SO brackish aud alkaline
that nothing can use it. A small fish Of the
four legged water dog kind is found in it,
but. is, tgsood forspothipg. 4coupted from,
LARAMIE to this point on our side of the car,
VI antelopes playing around. We next cross
then the Medicine Bow River, pretty stream,
but deceptive TO- thestaste, and on. her banks
many treaties have been made between the
WITHSTAND the esovages that 'ihliabit this re-
gion, who are treaoherous, and when convent
ent or necessary for their gain to break them.
And just near by is the. station Of the same
name, and many United States troops arc
here, sWofncxt reach Carbon. the coal sta.
ton aud ,coal region Of Wyoming. Tho Rail,
road company arc working a shaft, and from
it raise the coal, and laid ihto the cars front
side track. Wo now go on to Simpson sta
ton, REACH reaaSc here by 4 long heavy grade, two
engines double headed pull, US up. Arrived
at 8 pm had good meal, aud as night set.
in; will bring up in tho morning. Wepassed
by Percy, Dana, st. Mays, Fort Steele, be-.
fore we slept any, passing Platte River, Ben
ton, Washakie, Red Desert and Table Rock
stations. All that is said by those who have
travelled over the road often is of but little
note or Importance, and our genial Railroad
conductor after the style in manner, and
physique of The gcntlemanly conductor of
South Carolina Railroad, CT. =. 3D. congra-
tulatcd us that VIC wcrc to pass in tho night
through that God forsakcn country We'll,
from Bitter Creek station from where we
made our morning prisons, passing Black
Buttes, Point of Rocks, Salt Wells, Rock
Springs, Green River City, (now gono up)
and Green River stations to Bryan, is the
poorest sunburnt up, sage and grease wood,
red sand, stone, and most desert region on
this continent. The water is alkaline, the
land hily, mountains valleys and dalos, with
out grass or timber, mankind cannot subsist
from its soil, no animal find feed or water
that they can drink at the stations. All pro
visions and water is brought,in Not bird,
not fowl, save the sage chickens can sub
slst in this region, extending from Rcd
Desert Station to Bryan, at least one hun
drcd and fifty miles. We send you a. spcci
men of the shrub, grease wood, said to be
good for nothing in tho world, and also the
sagc ush5 tbs said thut jack rabbit once
undertook tt cross this desert and was starved
and famished, ere he had made tho trip. You
cannot conceive if you hunt history and
words to convey dcsolatencss and baroness
to find term that would fill the bill, for this
great and barren mountainous plane, for all
along you find the hills aud mountains al
most, sono times entirely covered with snow,
and when not with that, With just nothing,
and not near anything at all, except rock and
a few more rock, and then rock again ! At
Green River Station we saw an Indian, Tapes,
(wigwam) and few Indians, but few are
seen along the line, and our inforrncr says
that is the best sign Of their unfricndlincss to
the whites.
Now at Bryan, again with our history and
Pass Granger Station, Hams, Fork Station,
Carter's and. Bridgcr, Piedmont, Aspen and
Bear River City, and Evanston % Wahsatch
Station. At o'clock, p. M, tt. dinner, and
of the country back to Bryan, the same may
DC said that we have said of FROM Red Dc
sert, not habitation, not field, bird, not
an animal, not an Indian, not anything, is to
be seen save the sage brush, The grease wood,
the snow.lrocks, snow shcds and snow fences.
many and numerous, ncxccpt ut the stations
At this station ve are 96S
miles from Omaha, and 500 from Sacramento
CITY, California, an elevation Of G,S10 feet,
1t hasseycral small trading places, the houses,
adobe and canvass covering, common in this
section, generally AT Granger, we entered
UtahTcrritory. The windis blowing very
hard, but the dayis very warm. Many sol.
iers 'r here and passing up tho line Of road to
Feed and keep them! Draws heavily upon
'ho Government, but guess they are needed
around here. From Wasatoh to Castle Rock,
miles tho country ,,fa ,,o,o ~o,,..l 20