Edited sentence: Exactly why the road was to terminate at Honey Lake near Susanville is a legislative mystery since very few went that way in 1857 or later.In 1857 Congress established the Fort Kearny, South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road for building a wagon road to California and appropriated $300,000.In 1858 Lander, now in charge, guided several hundred workers who built the Landers Cutoff passing the Green River well north of the established ferries, over Thompson Pass into Star Valley Wyoming and from there up Stump Creek and on to  Fort Hall in Idaho.In 1860 Landers was instructed to find a new route north of the Humboldt--there wasn't one.Lander working under William  Magraw.The first part of the route was surveyed by Frederick W.These reservoirs helped Nobles Road keep its status as a emigrant trail but only the few emigrants interested in going to Northern California used it.To help the emigrants leaving the main trail at Lassen's meadow and going to Honey Lake Lander had two large reservoir tanks built at Rabbit Hole and Antelope Springs