We publish below a table of distances from Council Bluffs, by the old Mormon route, up the North side of Platte River to the forks of that river, and also from St. Joseph to the same point. These tables we have taken from Street's California Guide, published in 1851, and may be relied upon as exactly correct. Mr. Street went to California in 1850, and crossed the Missouri River at St. Joseph, and made from actual observation, a very minute description of all the principal points and camping places on the route, together with a table of distances from point to point.His description and table of distances on the route from Council Bluffs, were copied from the Mormon Guide, published by the first Mormon emigrants who visited Salt Lake in 1847. We have not copied the descriptioin of the various points as given by Mr. Street, our object being to show the distances from this point and St. Joseph, as St. Joseph is about as near to the forks of Platte River, as any point on the Missouri River below Nebraska City. The forks of the Platte River will be the focus at which all the roads to the new Gold diggings must center, and as a matter of course, emigrants will seek the nearest route to that point. From there to Cherry Creek is about 270 miles. It will be seen from these tables, that the saving of distance in favor of Council Bluffs is 139 miles; and the road at the same time much better, running nearly the whole distance in the valley of the Platte River, on a plain as level as a board. While from any other point on the Missouri below the mouth of the Platte, the road must run over a hilly country, from 100 to 250 miles.

ROUTE FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS UP THE NORTH SIDE OF PLATTE.
	MILES
To Pappio Creek,	18
Elk Horn river,	27
Small creek, 10 feet wide,	28
Platte river,	30
Small lake by the side of the road	33
Circular lake or pond,	35
Platte river again	45
Lake, south of the road,	63
Loup Fork,	68
Lake and timber, south of the road,	77
Lookingglass creek,	78
Long lake, south of road,	79
Beaver river, 20 feet wide,	86
Plumb creek,	93
Ash creek,	96
Ford of Loup Fork,	97
Cedar creek, 8 rods wide	99
Road leaves the riv. & turns up ravine	103
Road turns to the valley,	109
Road leaves the river,	121
Prairie creek, 12 feet wide,	139
Road returns to the river,	148
Wood river,	150
Road descends to low land,	152
Road ascends to high land,	154
Deep ravine, steep descent,	176
Creek or slough,	182
Deep dry creek,	186
Elm creek,	189
Road leaves the river,	197
Buffalo creek crossing,	200
Willow lake, south of the road,	220
Flat lake, south of the road,	228
Deep dry creek,	230
Lowlanding, bluff extending to the river,	244
Skunk creek, 6 feet wide,	249
Crossing of Skunk creek,	254
Lake or marsh, south of the road,	255
Spring of cold water at foot of bluffs,	260
Low landing bluffs, opposite the junc-
tion of North and South Platte.	262
TABLE OF DISTANCES FROM ST. JOSEPH
To Creek at the foot of the bluffs,	6
Musketo creek,	21
Wolf creek,	26
Indian agency,	30
Mill creek,	35
Small creek on the left of the road,	57
Grove of timber 1/2 m. north of the road	63
Grove of timber, north of the road,	73
Small creek, north of road,	85
Nemaha creek,	92
Little Nemaha creek,	104
Small creek in prairie,	106
Rock creek,	120
Blue river,	138
Small creek in the prairie,	148
Small creek,	158
Small creek,	165
Wyth creek,	172
Big sandy,	185
Dry sandy,	198
Little Blue river,	210
Road leaves Little blue,	254
Small creek, in the prairie,	261
Platte river,	278
Fort Kearney,	288
Plumb creek,	324
Pond in the prairie south of the road,	340
Deep slough on the right of the road,	369
Road arrives at the river,	372
Cottonwood creek,	375
Ash creek,	377
Small creek,	398
Junction of South and North forks of
Platte River,	401
Iowa Weekly Visitor, 13 Jan 1859, pg. 3, col. 1