Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-08-02
LIEUTENANT WHEELER'S EXPLOR,
ING EXPEDITION.
DISTRIBUTION OF PARTIES.

The fields of operations for the several
parties comprising lieutenant Wheelers e1-
ploring expedition, for the season. have been
designated as follows Lieut.. Macomb and
party, among whom are J. c. Spi;ler, Mr..
Morgan (son of Senator Morgan of Alabama,
Nat. Dow, J. B. Callahan, Harry Meddlicatt,
and C. Howell, left Carson yesterday after
noon for Silver Mountain. At that point the
party will be divided. One detachment will
make a scheme of triangulation from Cory's
and White Mountain peaks, connecting with
man points in the Sierra, such as Castle Peak
near Bridgeport, Cal. and Mount Dana, near
Bloody Canyon. The remainder of the party
will work westward over the Sonora and Mono
roads as far as Strawberry Flat On compile
ton of this work the two detachments COM
prisng this party will join and work up the
country about Yosemite and Hetch-Hetchy
Valley, and will operate to about fifteen miles
south OF Mariposa, visiting the Big Trees and
important mining districts of that section of
California. The party will then break up on
the west side OF the Sierra Nevada mountains,
along the line of the Southern Pacific Rail
road, possibly at Fresno. Lieut.. Symonds,
who left here few days since for Bidwell,
Cal, will start from that point with a party
of thirteen men, on a scheme Of triangulatiOn
through the Cascade mountains, occupying
Mount Hood and other important points. He
will, if not interrupted by the Indians, return
to BdweI after the conclusion Of his laborS.
Another party, under Lieut.. TiIdcn, will fit
out at Soto, Cal, a point at the terminus Of
one Of the branch railroads leading from Sac
to Reddins. He will map the couh-
try III that vicinity, occupying Mount Shasta
and Lasson's Butte. Lieut.. Birney, well !
known i'll this city, is working in New Mexi |
co, as well as Lieut. Griffin of the Engineer
Corps, Special parties viii be sent out to
occupy astronomical stations at Walla Walla, |
w T.. and Fresno or Nisaha, Cal whose |
operations will be conn Jed with by parties
under command Of Lioutenants Macomb, Sy
nonds and Ludlow. The latter's party is
low working in the neighborhooG oi Austin,
Nevada. 1t is not probable that any II the
JALCSiS ElGtttHnGU WI AGAIN 'lslt larson next
season, as they anticipate being assigned to
luty at great distance from hore. Lic;lt
Wheeler, the chief of this expedition, will
pend what time he has at his disposal in the
ield with Lieut.. Symonda. Lieut.. Wheeler
lpon whom rests I'll responsibility Of the
roper and truthful t.e"stion OF this great
york. Is a graduate u West Point, and
Dung man, only 81 ears OF age, and has
'een the read and front of this expedition
or number of years past. The Importance
f his WORK is inestimablo il its nature, and
/ is rare that such gigantic government enter
rises are Entrusted to the guidance OF 50
Dung man as Lieut.. Wheeler. But the ad,
lrable character OF his labors can be better
ppreciated when we say that he received an
autograph letter from Count Won Moltke, the
reat Prussian general, complinenting him in
terms upon the excellent work he
as performed so far. 1