The map showed every camp on the road and showed where there was water and grass, and as to obstacles to the wagons it was thought they could easily be overcome.

A general meeting was called for better consideration of the question.Capt.Hunt said: "You all know I was hired to go by way of Los Angeles, but if you all wish to go and follow Smith I will go also.

But if even one wagon decides to go the original route, I shall feel bound to go with that wagon." A great many were anxious to get the opinion of Capt.

Hunt on the feasibility of the new route for he was a mountain man and could probably give us some good advice.

He finally consented to talk of it, and said he really knew no more then the others about this particular route, but he very much doubted if a white man ever went over it, and that he did not consider it at all safe for those who had wives and children in their company to take the unknown road.