APPENDIX II I.

CONSTRUCTION OF MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT WASHAKIE TO MOUTH OF BUFFALO FORK OF SNAKE RIVER, WYOMING.

REPORT OF CAPT. H. M. CHITTENDEN, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, OFFICER IN CHARGE, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1901.

UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,

Sioux City, Iowa, July 2, 1901. GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit herewith report upon military road from Fort Washakie, Wyo., to mouth of Buffalo Fork of Snake River for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. M. CHITTENDEN, Captain, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A.

REPORT ON CONSTRUCTION OF MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT WASHAKIE TO MOUTH OF BUFFALO FORK OF SNAKE RIVER, WYOMING.

Description of the locality, character and value of the road, and work done to June 30, 1899, are described in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, 1899, Part VI, pages 3881-3900.

The sundry civil appropriation act of June 6, 1900, provided for further road work as follows:

Military road, Wyoming: For the repair, construction, and completion of the military road from Fort Washakie to near Jacksons Lake, in Uinta County, Wyoming, authorized by provision in the sundry civil appropriation act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ten thousand dollars.

A project for expenditure of the above was approved June 22, 1900, and work was begun immediately after the 1st of July, when the appropriation became available. A party was organized under Mr. F. L. Walker, foreman, and set to work at the west terminus of the road. The party left Mammoth Hot Springs on the 2d of July and reached Buffalo Fork of Snake River on the 7th. It was at this point that the most important work of the season was done. A strong bridge was built over this stream, which had hitherto been passable only by a