Started early for the sink. Country barren. Bad water. Distance, twelve miles.
July 23 and 24.
Crossed the desert forty miles. Eight miles to the sink. Went upon the desert at 4 o'clock P. M. Saw many dead animals. First part road level and good. Moonlight night. Wagons strewn along the road. Latter part of the road deep sand. Reached Carson River at 11 o'clock A. M. Saw timber for the first time in several hundred miles.
July 25.
Went up river twelve miles, then from it for fifteen miles over a high desert country. Valley of river narrow and well timbered. Distance, twenty-seven miles.
July 26.
Left the river and went twenty-six miles before we came near it again. Country barren and broken.
July 27.
Went up river eight miles, then left it for twelve. Road mountainous, with a little cedar. Distance, twenty miles.
July 28.