From Atchison to Miles Total Remarks Marmon Grove 3½ Junction of the Great Military Road. Lancaster 5½ 9 Provisions and grass. Huron (Cross. 4 13 Provisions and grass. First Salt Lake Grasshopper) Mail Station. Kennekuk, do main 10 23 Provisions, timber, and grass. do Capioma (Walnut 17 40 Provisions, timber, and grass. Creek) Richmond (head of 15 55 Salt Lake Mail Station and provisions. Nemaha) Marysville 40 95 Water and Grass. Small Creek on 10 105 Luxuriant grass. Prairie Small Creek 10 115 Water and grass. Small Creek 7 122 Wood and grass. Wyth Creek 7 129 Wood and grass. Big Sandy Creek 13 142 Wood and luxuriant grass. Dry Sandy Creek 17 159 Heavy timber. Little Blue River 12 171 Wood and grass. Road leaves 44 215 Wood and grass. Little Blue Small Creek 7 222 Wood, grass and buffalo. Platte River 17 239 Salt Lake Mail Station and provisions. Ft. Kearney 10 249 17 Mile point 17 26 Wood, water and grass. Plum Creek 18 284 Wood and grass. Cottonwood Spring 40 324 Wood and grass. Fremont’s Springs 40 364 Luxuriant grass. O’Fallon’s Bluffs 5 369 Wood, water and grass. Crossing South 40 409 Wood, water, and grass. Platte Ft. St. Vrain 200 609 Provisions, and from this to the mines the route is well timbered and watered. Cherry Creek 40 649 From _Freedom’s Champion_, February 12, 1859. * * * * * TABLE OF DISTANCES —From— ATCHISON TO THE GOLD MINES, via the First Standard Parallel Route to the Republican Fork of the Kansas River, thence following the Trail of Colonel Fremont on his Explorations in 1843, to Cherry Creek and the Mines. * * * * * Compiled from Colonel Fremont’s Surveys, and the most reliable information derived from the traders across the Great Plains.