Show ONE OK TIlE EillLY ONES Tent lo olttorlil hi ISlOlame llfre Nix Var IAHOWAN Inn County Ulab May 12 1887 To tbe Edlton TblnKlug It was my duly to report ho dolor roy being a iilonoerto Bait Lake Valley I lake the presanl oppor unity of brlflly tiling a few bet deaf In regard to my startlnit out end float safe arrival In Bait Lake Valley 1 started with my parents In hoolil shIp DrooLlyn In tbs company or BalulBUDOer the charge of Hsmuel Iraunan on tbe 4 li day of February 81H and after a tedious aud somewhat lormy paisiiie arrlrcd at the littln tows of Verba 1Iuna now the great Jielropolls of Han Fiiiclico ou the 6tb day of July lIe same year belmt six montbi on the water Boou alter we bad landed Bamusl Urannan con luded lo fuim a Joint Meek company II sod locale IbeBalnts ou n piece of laud IB bad seleoieJ and furm a colony tram which as be said would spring up and grow a largo end flourIshIng oIly My psrenla not seeing the point withdrew or more properly speaking did not agree 10 nil proposition but occluded lo raddle their own canoe Vu took paiiane 0 Ibo Brooklyn asian as-ian ai Monterey and there I engaged with lr Beraple to work on his news sper The Callfornlan the flrst aper publIshed In CallfornU by an Amer Icon rIte paper was printed ball In Spanish and bait In Uoglluto ult the mixed population It was llnally mod 10 Baa Franciico cad 1 still worked on It till the splint of I 1817 when the SaInts were counseled 10 I ather to the mountains I My parents obeyed the call by ijel I hog au outfit lending for me tu oome hom and rtlng come time abaUI Ibe fret 01 Augul We trnld as far se Iloaol Valley bra nor Imtr Ill U 10 dIg gall and ss we could bet g1 aotber the folks con eluded to slop and try theIr han at digging It u picel us dull Hut with all their pnesees loom alld enlrestles It eemid to me that I culU not to sail lied lollop with them and llnally bey gave me an outfit and I cameo 10 Ito mountains wIth James Fergu ou aud a company 01 Motrnou IJatlal IanIVe We arrived In Ball Lake vslley In he mouth ol Ocuber Iti47 The Bilnts were then living lu u furl that II I tire greater part of them Il was qulie u trial to one 10 young as I wai uelnetul4 veara ol nirc to hs de prIded 01 bleld and olbr cnrh 01 lIfe std 001111 moly on aegee oud blitle tools which I was forced lo do while tending the crop next spring and Bgtiilnic tbe crickets But our rouble ass greatly reduced on the arrival Jot Ibu s > a gulls who made brl work 01 Ibo crlckI end caved us e smell crap I did not reallin at hat lime the hand of an overruling Providence lu leudlng the gulls but I now know that nothing but tho lu lrlIun 01 Ibe Lord could have saved this people at 1 thai lime and 1 feel thauklul that I was ptimllled lo pass through wbat 1 did as the ex I erleoce is worth 01 tea lo rue than all be told of Uillfjruia I IOU I would he brIe bat I blIne 1 ban over raonou lire limit mid will 00cc JOHN B HYATT |