AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE.

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Church Buttes station
derives its name from
the peculiar formation of
| the sand-stone bluffs,
which extend for many
miles on the left-hand side
of the road; they are
about ten miles distant.
At the Old Church Buttes
station, on the old over-
land stage road,”—about
nine miles to the south
they rise in lofty domes
and pinnacles, which, at a
distance, resemble the flut-
ed columns of some cath-
edral of the olden time,
standing in the midst of
desolation; its lofty tur-
reted roof and towering
spires rising far above
the surrounding country; -
but on nearer approach
the scene changes, and ;
we find a huge mass
of sandstone, worn and
washed by the elements
until it has assumed the
outline of a church of the
grandest dimensions, it
being visible for a great
distance. Again we go
westward 9.4 miles to

Ham pton—a side track, with cattle
pens and shute for loading them—large
herds of which range in this section, on the
hills and in the adjacent valleys.

To the left, after leaving the station, we
see high buttes of all fantastic shapes,
showing water lines, which indicate that
there has been “high water” here some
time in the past.

Carter—is 75 miles from the last
station. About seven miles north, a large
sulphur spring, and near it a calybeta
spring has been discovered, and about
fourteen miles further a mountain of coal;
the total thickness of the veins is 87 feet,
traceable for twelve miles. A branch rail-
road is contemplated to the coal bank, via
the springs.

This station is named for Judge Carter, of
Bridger. This gentleman has a large ware-
house at this point, where freight is received
from Virginia City, Helena, and Bannock
City, Montana Territory. This route is
said to be 80 miles shorter than any other
road leading from the Union Pacific rail-
road to these cities.

 

JAMES BRIDGER—See following page.

The series of buttes that has been ob-
served on our left below, continues, but
are more of auniform height—table-topped,
with scrub cedars in the gulches and
ravines. Some of these buttes look like
immense railroad dumps, as they jet out
into the valley, round and steep.

On the right, the soil is red-clay, with
some rocks of the same color.

Fort BrieEerR—is ten miles east from
this station, over the bluffs, out of sight,
having been established in 1858, by General
A.§. Johnson, latitude 41 deg. 18 min. and
12 sec.; longitude 110 deg. 82 min. and 38

sec.

Black’s Fork, which runs through the
center of the parade ground, affords ex-
cellent water, and with Smith’s Fork, a
stream five miles southeast, affords as fine
trout as there isin the country.

The chief of the Shoshones, Wash-a-kie,
whose picture will be found on page
61, is almost always atthis post. He is a
very kind, honorable Indian, and has been
the steadfast friend of the whites for many

years.