Show CROSSING AT lour loop rork FORK mr james C mitchell bell secretary of the columbus ferry company across loup fork informs as us that up to june one thousand eight hundred and seven wagons twenty hand hand carts five thousand four hundred and one men four hundred and twenty four women tour four hundred bundred arid and eighty children 1610 horses 1 mules oxen and sheep had c crossed ros this ferry A t that point this statement includes included no portion of the mormon emigration but embraces merely california oregon and pikes peak emigrants and their stock all going westward the returning emigration crossed at ghinns ferry some fifteen miles below the confluence of the loup fork with the Platte many of the outward bound emigrants also crossed at the same point so that it is probable that not less than fourth four thousand 0 u wagons have passed over the mili military ta byroad road westward from this city since the of march it Is ia more titan than probable that another year the number passing up rip the platte valley will be ten times as aa great we would say in this thia connection that the loup ioup fork ferry at columbus is the best flit boat ferry in the west vest and that the hort short est route to california salt lake fort kearney kearbey and the chi chairry arv creek mines is i via columbus omaha kian |