| Show The Hde Party to San Juan SALT I AX CIT Sept 18 80 Editors Herald The following is i an extract from a private letter written by a young man now traveling with Mr Wm Hyde through the San Juan country You will notice that the health of the party is good and they are in excellent excel-lent spirits The shortness of spirit shortneli pr visions is accounted for by their leaving half their load at Escalanta desert Iron County the beginning of the FIFTY MIL RO ANYTTHEBE August 3 1580 At last I have another chance to I write you There is s train ol wagons going to camp with us tonight to-night and they will carry our mail to Secalanta the nearest postolBce Do not write until I tell you where t direct We have been seven weeks on the road and wa aro still seventy miles from San Juan Wehave had the worst time I ever had in my life 1 cant begin to describe the road to you When I return I will tell you all I can about i We have had from five to twenty miles without water and the wont sand road anybody ever aw We have not seen n human being for two weeks We have comedown come-down hills of solid rock with both hind wheels roughlocked and nearly tipped over frontwards We have come up bill where we put twelve bones on one wagon and with only 600 or 800 pounds of freight and could hardly rruke it We have doubled our teams and left half our wagons ten to twelve miles back three times Our horses are nearly all fagged fag-ged out and yet we are tbe liveliest crowd under the circumstances you ever beard of One man started to travel with ui but we fired him because he lied to us He then went ahead and told the people we were a bard crowd I I think we will reach San Juan in a week or two Am in the best ef health living on bread and grAY and sorghum Have bad water the last 100 miles but bad to train it on account of poly wogs and wigglers but wo dont notice that now we can drink it wigglera and all Such is the route to San Juan via Halls Ferry Yours truly M D Since the above news was received i has been learned that Wm Hyde has arrived at San Juan |
