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552 Thousand Springs Valley to Fort Hall for supplies, and, if possible, to induce a portion of the immigration, which would probably be in that vicinity, to travel the new route and open the road. Before arriving at Fort Hall, Henry Bogus, learning that a son of Mr Grant of the fort had started for St Louis, and wishing^ to return there, left the party, and took a cut-off, in the hope of overtaking the St Louis Company, but was never again heard from.

The immigration of 1846 was not so large as that of the previous year, and many were destined for California, whither efforts were made to direct the wavering. From the best evidence I can gather, about twenty-five hundred persons left the Missouri frontier this year for the Pacific coast. Of these, from fifteen