Show from the sacramento union salt italic thail mail route under this head the san francisco J rational publishes a statement professing sin to come from one flenner who says he came passenger from salt lake which N reads like a malicious misrepresentation sen tation it ni was as published too just in in time as if by accident to be sent to washington by the last steamer this man mail flenner has made a statement which is u totally inconsistent with the truth lie ile says sa s to the al J at ional that tl at there were five through passengers they were compelled to pack the whole aole distance from salt lale lake city i to the sink of the humboldt which is i s bout about miles distant from froin genoa the the snow w as f from born six si inches to five an fn e feet in in depth along the entire route and in in crossing the i alleys alle s the mules could not find bottom they were in m deep snow for a distance di sance of COO miles blenner says sas lie he has lived a good deal in in severe climates but lie hs never suffered so much from the cold as during tins this trip all the passengers were more or less frost bitten J ienner being used to cold weather did not suffer so much as the others from salt like lake city to placerville placere erville ille the distance by the old emigrant route bythe goose creek mountains is is put down don n at miles on the line which the mail has for a few w weeks eels past leen carried which leaves the goose creek Aroun mountains tair 3 to the north the distance is is reduced over miles which would bung bring it down to about GOO miles from salt lake to placerville erville of that distance miles is is traveled in in the valley of the humboldt whore snow rarely falls and liever lie lies s on the ground for foi any length of time this pro pious ves that the he statement of mr air flon flan ner ncr that tha t he traveled in m snow tor for COO miles cannot be true ile he says sas too that they had bad to pack to the sink of the humboldt they may have hav e traveled trav aled on mules but il u was not because the road was vas bad for thousands of wagons have hae traveled the humboldt valley road during the pat paa ten tell years airs this thi s s tory story is is of a piece with his declaration t tl h at ho he traveled miles in in the snow the contractors may have neglected to provide tor for passengers as they ought but this is int chargeable to the route As an all offset offet to this flenner snow storm we republish tho the follo following wim statement of the snow difficulties difficult es ard and mg ing experienced on the southern route upon the arrival of one of the malls mails at st louis the 1 republican said twenty five hours were consumed in in c ining coming the first seventy five miles from tucson through A pache apache kanyon kan on the snow was fifteen inches in in depth at apache they were forced to leave tile the coach and walk a distance ot of twelve miles in in the night through snow two and a half feet in in de depth B by this operation beardsley had his feet badly frozen lie le says he never before experienced such ich a nighton night of suffering along this portion of the route it required twenty evv enty tour four hours to travel a distance of fifty eight miles A severe sev ere sand storm was w as encountered on the colorado river ni er which however er did not materially materi illy impede pro gressak gres gi ess sas as it came carn from efrom the west w est otherwise le it it w would have hav e been the occasion occasion of much lost time A company of united states troops were quartered at tucson which had lately left fort Ba buchannan channan another a relief company was met at apache pass on the way to tho the latter fort the condition of the soldiers was w as truly piti pitiable a many of them having their hail hands d and feet badly frozen and all undergoing the greatest hardships |