We have remained in camp all day.  At about 9 o’clock this morning it began to rain and hail, and we have had a little snow, which continued to fall at intervals all day.  At about 6 o’clock this evening Hauser and Gillette arrived in camp, having returned on the trail to within three miles of the place where we camped on the night of September 7th.  They examined the trail and the beach with the utmost care, but without discovering any trace of Mr. Everts.  They say that the trail over which our train passed, or, rather, the path which our train made, was hardly plain enough to be followed, and in many places where the pine leaves had fallen thick upon the ground, it was totally invisible, so that no one could have followed it with certainty except by dismounting and closely observing the ground at every step.  They made the journey very well, from the fact that they had traveled the route once before, and their horses instinctively followed the back path for a great part of the distance without any special guidance.  On their near approach to camp, when the trail was no longer discernible, their dog “Booby” took the lead when they were at fault, and brought them into camp all right.  They think they might have been forced to lie out all night but for the sagacity of “Booby.”  They made on each of the two days nearly as great a distance as our train traveled in four days.  Their report has fully set at rest the question of Mr. Everts having followed us.  It settles as a fact that he did not again strike our trail, and that had he done so he could not have followed it, owing to his short-sightedness.  Hauser and Gillette are probably the two best trailers and woodsmen in our party, and their report of the condition of the trail and the difficulty experienced in following it has satisfied us that Mr. Everts has either struck off in a southerly direction, following perhaps the headwaters of the Snake river, or that he has made an effort to reach the head of the lake with a view of returning by our trail to Boteler’s ranch.  It is snowing hard to-night, and the prospect for a day or two more in this camp is very good.  The murky atmosphere to-night brings to view a number of springs on the opposite shore of this arm of the lake and farther back in the hills which we have not heretofore seen, and the steam is rising from fifty craters in the timbered ridge, giving it the appearance of a New England factory village.

After holding a council this evening we have resolved to remain at this place two days more, hoping that Mr. Everts may overtake us, this arm of the lake being the objective point of our travel, fixed on the day before that on which Mr. Everts was lost.