Show emigration from the east bast to the pacific and the land sha 7 4 0 of butali thus far this season very few emigrants have passed wed G S L city en an route for the west vh this I 1 course has been a benefit blessing and real gratification r ati cation to every valuable and correct thinking innabi inhabitant lit of utah and an advantage to the passing travelers so 0 far as I 1 have noticed and heard with but I 1 few w a exceptions X options ept ions the emigration of this season have conducted with unusual I 1 propriety judgment and harmony so much so that a casual observer would hardly take them for strangers unless he chanced to notice their travel soiled apparel it is not certain whether this good conduct has arisen from a higher toned morality than that possessed by former companies but may be accounted for by the circumstance that in all or nearly all the trains there were one or more in com company lany who had previously passed over the route this this is an excellent policy and should be pursued whenever practicable as an it affords a great advantage in traveling and camping with regard to the proper or necessary distance for the day and the quantity and quality of grass for the night more especially when grazing has to be sought some distance from the road I 1 1 As it takes a long and indefinite time I 1 with our P present resent and past mail facilities for info information to go from here and become generally disseminated in the states it may not be amiss to extend to future emigration the benefit of my judgment experience peri ence and reflection on a few main nain points an attention to which will materially aid their movements increase their comfort comfor and advance their interests lute rests on leaving the frontiers provide yourselves with good I 1 wagons iu in sufficient number to make each load reasonably light both for the wagon and team and with at least enough animals to fill up the gaps which may be made by disease fatigue I 1 and loss then load in such inch groceries medicines plain clothing flour ae as you yon presume will labit you to yo your ar place of destination the quantity of each you can readily learn at the different outfitting outwitting out fitting points should there be no one in your company who has been through when your outfit is loaded if you still have extra room and to team am it will pay you lay in groceries and light staple articles to sell on the way to those who may need also to the inhabitants of utah should you pass any of her settlements and i enable you to keep the club in your hands when bhea you meet the land sharks the aarle emigration will be still more independent if each company will fit up two boats about sixteen feet long and so arranged as to be placed upon u on wheels and used as wagon beds when not needed d for crossing streams for utah has no law against persons ferrying themselves and their effects the policy of this course coarse and the disinterestedness of this advice will be obvious to all who are familiar with the greatly advanced price I 1 0 wagons and abd stock in california even above the present high rates on the frontier and have noticed that immense herds are annually driven to that market with great greal profit when the stock and sales are managed with prudence and besides this market is very fluctuating and uncertain flour varying from 4 to 50 per hundred and fat animals being hold held at enormous rates when it is in supposed they are in necessitous demand after you are fairly started upon the ocean oceala plains with a toilsome journey of some 2000 miles before you it will be highly necessary to bear in mind that patience is one of the virtues you will have the most use for be the oft enest trie tried in and the most difficult to retain hence you must use the strongest efforts to keep cool coal if you can accomplish this effectually effectually y you are as well prepared as your judgment will permit to lo fulfil fulfill the next most important requirement viz the proper use and care of your animals upon whose boid go id condition so much of your welfare depends to effect this it will be well for you to keep in mind that upon the plains and in the mou rUas and deserts the old adage the more haste the less speed Us likely to prove almost invariably true therefore you will need be careful that neither weariness shiftlessness over anxiety indolence nor any other contro controllable lable cause induce you vou to driving your animals animals above a reasonable speed and endurance nor prevent your furnishing famishing thern them access to the best grass and water the circumstances will admit of and allowing the them m sufficient time to graze and rest and when you are about aboud t to cross such places as those between the north fork of the platte and the sweet water and the sink of marys river start on them with your teams in as good plight aa 49 possible take all advantages and when over rest a short abort time on the first good grass what further benefit will arise from a strict compliance with these friendly and timely suggestions you will be able to travel comfortably and independently got get in good season and above all avold avoid being shaved by the land sharks who swarm on the route ready to take the utmost advantage of any necessity arising from your crippled condition or wants presuming the foregoing to be so plain that all concerned can understand it and so manifestly prudent and correct that no one will neglect it for fear of partiality or an interested undercurrent of concealed motives it will now be necessary to put you on your guard against the land sharks that you may be armed at all points against avoidable loss and disappointment and be better able to realize and profit by the ideas already advanced among the various classes of society the following low all subdivisions bd divisions will sometimes be heard viz the lords poor the devils devil s poor and poor devils the two latter classes exist to a certain extent in ar all communities and of course it is not reasonable to expect that utah is able to claim entire exemption hence hance fortunately or unfortunately she is reasonably well supplied with that class clas called poor devils in spite of all her efforts to rid her borders of such an annoyance inasmuch as poor devils are not necessarily and invariably actually poor in this worlds goods but bat often quite wealthy to prevent being misunderstood and to carry out oat our present design plainly we shall call them land sharks and confine ourselves to the land sharks of utah both those professing to be mormons cormons Mor mons and those who make no profession but to serve themselves while the emigration is passing these characters line the road from the sweet water to the summit of the nevada and like the wre wreckers kerB on the sea boa bearb it lie in wait to prey upon the misfortunes carelessness and ignorance of th the e traveler having no eye to pity and unless at the utmost rates of extortion no disposition to save like their namesake of the deep and like the turkey tarkey buzzards and prairie wolves upon lei land d they note their victims afar off and hang upon their course with a perseverance brance worthy of a better cause the main outfit stock in trade is raw whiskey and apo beer varied occasionally by at a little money one or more animals and now and then a few pounds of butter thus equipped they bivouac along the line of travel constantly on the alert to ply their vocation by driving hard bargains for such animals as have become a little jaded foot footsore sore or otherwise temporarily unserviceable ie ea b I 1 e successful in the th first move they are on the high road of gain which they endeavor to aggregate like the rolling snow ball by recruiting in a few days many of the animals first secured and exchanging them for others as good or better except for immediate use at the rate of 6 one he for three I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 IT I 1 kit i T ii 1 ai four or half a dozen or one due for two or ato i the fair price still further multiplied ti lied b by w ceries or clothing an aa boot when all in their cut throat tr arde de or w when an i I 1 ordinate thirst for gain with little ciulo labor Is gratified many turn stock drivers and he i with this peculiarity that the animals tai the such good care of aie not their r own i As the emigration reaches the sett settlement lemen I 1 fall into the hands of the hay grass butter batter and flour sharks each of whom has seen boarded larger or smaller quantities with ww wt bite and devour and in most cases with th characteristic of having withheld their a st trade from its necessary emary and proper cha thus retarding our public works I 1 hands bands of the righteous right edUs oua and surely sorely opar opples I 1 agnest poor I 1 one branch of this class practice wha wh deem a slyer dodge and one requiring lew lem and labor these buy bay articles of the am emi at very fair rates and then extort on the a ties of their brethren and still another b when they chev have nothing to buy or sell adv ers ere who are selling high enough enough for the 1 I 1 conscience to eel I 1 still higher tike ike I 1 a yon in the ward who undertook land sh i but hod had not nol skill and energy sufficient t to 11 fortune from the misfortunes of t the emige t I 1 0 one no season from information brought in by the last I 1 nid nia mail the emigration on leaving beara or must prepare to run a still harder gauntlet I 1 is reported that a numerous and welt well 0 or band of white highwaymen painted and dl I 1 as indians infest several points on the ro drive off stock by wholesale and recent 14 bid are rumored from that quarter it is pr that the arkansas murderer and a large ulu of associated outlaws and fugitives comp robber hand band men who have heretofore the habit of killing indians and lyl whites for the sake of their stock and bo booty 0 y the th purpose of this article does not 9 minute detail of all the distinguishing c ct I 1 astles of the class and its branches or in words of all the marks and brands of the a but the observation of those interested will supply the deficiency I 1 these knese miserable wretches are a ll 11 blight h a drawback and a standing curse carse in any I 1 anity and as veto vet the precept and example virtuous and honorable and the mild a aamli tion of the laws in the few cases where h test 9 backed up indictments are all tb the e til it a n have been brought to bear to rid ours ourselves eliv t horrible incubus which taints all well earned and even threatens the lives of all the u where it harbors in all a communities there are crisi ses wh who bearance ceases to be a virtue and the time i fast approaching when words and grass v laid aside and sterner methods adopted to the moral atmosphere of utah and ana while i truly grateful to the emigration of this deaso seasor so giving the land sharks so small an opportune div their vocation she is anxious that ii gration will so profit in their au I 1 JU a n d m mo I 1 travel as to be abundantly able to pass all sharks with impunity and silent bontem contempt 1 to still further enable thern them to coo co O open 8 the accomplishment of this worthy orthy ob object j i are recommended to take the sublette sublett a between the dry and little sandys wh practicable and if they pass that to take M cut off or the fort hall route and iq pass ass that point for turning off and come on 1 I 1 cher weber river it will be best beat to deffie deflect ct no nor at the head of the kanyon to the north of 1 ea city it I 1 hould should the future emigration conduct as honorably and uprightly uprightly rightly as the present a ai worthy portion 0 of ur the inhabitants of utah ilant and ad united it is self evident that our h will soon be too strait for the mischief and mi working land sharks scoundrels and do nottage not take the hint and leave or reform i ton eon for their occupation will be gone and ment must be laid to the line and I 1 leous t the h a plummet BRIGHAM YOU |