The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-10-15

side of Little Colorado, great part or the | way over barren, alkaline flats, About noon
 accident No. I, occurred, which was the heat
 ing of spindle belonging Co the ColoDers | ambulance. Luckily, we were not far from the river when the wheel refused to turn, and Colonel Stoneman was not long in rigging a 2 purchase which enabled us to get the am bGlance to Sunset Crossing, where a huge fire was kindlcd, the spindle heated and made as good as new. While this work was going
 on the ford was tried, and found passnble. A note from Iicutcuan' Upham, 3l Cavalry, who had come down from Camp Mogollon to
 meet the party, was found. lt stated that the Lieutenant and his men, were about out of rations and could not wait for the party. l This was discouraging and the Colonel sent
 a Sergeant and one man to overhaul the Lieu tenant. After crossing the river, our party l travelled through some fine yalleys--uvcr which the river, when on q bender, sweeps. ] Grass was plenty. We passed, on road,
 small, dirty stream of water, running from 1 the east which must bc Navajo Creek. We
 made, to-day, about thirty miles.
 Taesiay, Sytember G.--Folowed river up i Co Lcroux crossing. where we came up with
 the men who had becn sent to ovefhaui Leu
 tenant Upham and party, but who did not do | so the Lieutenant having broke camp before
 
 We had now to leave the river, and traverse
 moutainous country without road or guide,
 and all through ustAkc-it not a blunder
 on the part of those who were ordered to
 wait at this point for the Colonel. But we
 will do as did the Colonel, pass it over, and
 as We are about tO enter a new and very dii-
 fercnt region of country from that which we
 have trayersed. we will go back on the-ruute
 and "bring upn some matters of importance
 to the reader. As the new road now being
 built from Camp Verde will cross the river
 near this point, 1t may not be out of place Co 1, compare the two routes and the regions
 through which they pass. We had now trav-
 eed about 2l2 miles, mostly through noun
 tai1ous country, which we did not find very . well supplied with water, but m which, al
 most seasons, there Is fo0 nuoh Ea,sr. Of course, wells might be sunk, and water found
 at almost any point, hut tbat would not make good all the year route ot it, for the | snows Of winter would be a bar thereto, and
 1t would cost thousands of dollars to make a
 good wagon-r road over the great extent oi
 country from which the trap bowldcrs would z have Co be removed On the contrary, tbe
 new route. is in a measure free from trap, is
 better watered, we'll grassed and crosses the
 MogollOn chain of mountains far below the
 altitude at which the old route crosses tbe | " nearly one hundrtf mlss shorter, the distance from Prescott to the crossing of the Little - Colorado. by this route, being about l 10 miles !, against 2l2 the length of the old route. As [ work upon this new route is now being pushed ' to completion, we can soon congratulate our D selves upon having practicable wagon-road '' connecting us with Santa Fe, New Mexico r distance 42Q miles, or loo miles less than thC e old rocky. sky sI~auing San Francisco route - TThis new route was found and located by n Capt. Hawley. Sd Caval,y. was also tho \ route to Camp Mogollon (now Camp Thomas which leaves the riser at this point. Distance F made, about hiHg mRes.
 ' Wsdaeaiay. S-pte1aber 7.-Crossed to west f side Of the river, about noon; followed level c grassy plain for about siTieeA miles, when w' n encamped late at night, without water. For
 nation sandstone and trap.
 i. Thasfay, SpieRber s.--Started about day IT light, and travelled through sand d-stone coun II try, covered with good grass and juniper ,- trees, and encamped late in the afternoon il e a large, beautiful valley at the head of ,b' e Canon of Cheyelonis Fork of the Little Colo d rado, after a march of about fpesfy Bsdes, sil n. or eight Of which we might have saved, has e we not followed tracks made by Lieut. Up $ hams party. Cheyeiun's Fork-the strean ,e upon which we camped, is a large, bold, dash i- ing mountain stream, running perhaps ,O0 re inches of water, in which sport numbefies ld fish, resembling mountain trout Upon i ,e arc large, fine valleys, and the grazing 10
 miles on either side is excellent. Our cam st was about eighteen miles from the Littl S. Colorado and from Y to that river, the wate I. of Cheyelon's Fork passes through a rough ,e looking canon in sand stone hills The wea .b tber, during the night, was cool, ice havin So formed upon some water. in large tin par n. Timber is abundant in the hills
 n Friddy, SptenJer 9.-Crossed to east sid a of Cheveion's Fork, ard wended our wa ,s over rough powders, through pine and cedaI l. sometimes close to the stream: sometime ,o one and two miles away from it. Passed O he the road many fine springs and alter trave ,1 ing about eigiteca mUes, encamped in dc d. lghtful country, at point where the water he Of the river boil up, after having ran for som Id distance under the trap, from the mountain es above. These springs are the largest eve et seen by us. The water is delicious: tn h. country adjacent magnificent, therefore, sd cannot long remain unsettled
 D. Saturday, September l0.-This day,s iourne IT, south, was a hard one, for the animals. " ,h made t'oeEty- sereH miles, over a rough, rock y- country, mostly through tall pine timber, aD ed shortly after crossing the divide of the grea ic Mogollon range of mountains, encamped e ie the headwaters of the North Fork of Whit re Mountain river, in delightful mountain r, IT, glon. While crossing the summit of th ne Mogollon, we had fine view of the countr, ed and glorious country it was. Nor,hwe. ld and southeast far as the eye was able to reacl