we found the Shaw Shawnee aud Pa Utas
Indians, a little more friendly than the last,
but ready to steal anything that came in I
thxr way; along down tins valley the!
road is tolerably good with gra-s and wil
-1 >ws for fuel immediately on the banks
of the stream, but it is walled in on either
side by high barren Rocky bluffs or mount
ains unfit for anything unless it is for mi-1
ring; some valuable discoveries of both;
{. »l<d and silver have been made within the |
ant six or eight months all along for about j
cue hundred miles above the sink of Hum- j
|>oldt: from thence across to Carson River!
js a perfect level barren desert of forty*
miles; Carson River country, I have gen
•rally heard highly spokat of; Mr. Greeley i
you will recollect spoke of it in the most |
reasonable terms, but ic was ad poetry or
moonshine, one or the other, for I assure
yot that to take away the gold and silver
and all that would remain would constitute j
*\<ery suitable place to send sinners'
Poor barren plains jp)d'
with veiy. bad and unj
heaity w<’..er, and p r<K luoei
nothing. From thence tho South. |
Stocton or Bjg Tree routes t | ie (
bg tree*: thjjy are truly wonderful;
a e lome thirty of them; the largest
standing w thirty two feet eight inches jn
diKinete;, and about four hundred and fifty!
feu. i. height, and would make over fifteen I
hundred cords of wood. 