The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-08-29

Mississippi river, and surveying rapid.
~ the intermediate country, will reach
as early as practicable the Rocky
mountains and examine all the passes
to ascertain the most practicable one.
The second party, under the COM
mand of BIevet Captain George B.
Mcclellan, will organize at Puget
sound, or o. the Columbia and
operate for similar purpose in the
Cascade range OF mountains.
II may be added that Professor F.
Baird was the naturalist of the ex-
petition.
The following extracts from the
official document relative to the ex-
petition will be read with interest:
Under date of Camp Pierce, June
8, 1852" Governor Stevens reports !:
81 reached st. Paul's on Friday
evening last MAY 27), and next
morning went to the camp which had
been established by Captain Gardner,
some three miles from Fort Smelling,
west Of the Mississippi river, and
which, in honor of the president,
/ have named camp Pierce.
''The camp was established by Cap
tain Gardiner on the gath of May,
the day after the arrival of the full
list Of mules-172 In number.
about one-half of the mules had
never been broken, either in wagons,
to pack or saddle, and the remaining
half we're quite wild and required
much work to prepare them for SER
vice.
ION Tuesday MAY 81 the two
civil engineers, Mr.. Lander and Mr..
Tinkham, we're sent out with small
parties to commence the survey Of the
railroad route. Their riding mules,
as we'll as all the riding mules of the
gentlemen of the party, have been
broken by themselves, With very little
additional assistance, several of the
younger members of the party having
only succeeded in mastering their
animals after having been thrown sew
eral times, Mr.. Lander, the NOM
Ing he sent out, was thrown aud his
shoulder put out of joint. Ii was
brought back By the main strength
of three men, aud he Immediately set
out at the head of his party. re-
fer to these facts to show the spirit of
my command and the promise thus
given that all difficulties must dis.
appear before the hardihood and the
resolution thus exhibited. A"
Under date of Fort Benton Upper
Missouri, September 8, 1883" Gov.
ernor Stevens reports:
eve are on the eve of complete
success My parties are exploring
the passes of thu mountains. My in
tercnurse with the Indians has been
of the most satisfactory character
: The Blaskfeet Indians have sent Their
chiefs and braves to invite me I,
: their camps; not a horse has beer
! stolen, not a man touched no privat,
I article has been missed. lhey havu
Q brought our disabled animals init
/ camp aud acted as guides and guards
, These Indians sent their war partie
{ to the California trail, and horses be
1 lieved to be stolen from our emIgraut
, by the Grows are actually taken T.
= the camps of the formidable Black
. feet, under the 49th parallel To
! day, set out with a small party
} with Mr.. Culbertson, the speois
agent, to visit large Piegan cam
IS at their most fayorite resort, the Cyp
+ ress mountains, 100 miles north. M
object is two fold-to secure guide
Il for the examination of the Maria
= pass aud to bring about a genera
qualification OF all the tribes north G
- the Missouri, and those immediatel
:, west of the mountains, on the basl
le Of the treaty of Larimie"