Show THE tur MAIL due from independence on the first of january arrived on the tirel twelfth nth fth dinst in charge of IL 11 arnolds Ar mr bir arnolds says he was uras detained four days at ft laramie where he found the november mail from independence that lie he brought so much of the same as was wag given hun lihn a portion of books and papers having been detained i for want of soluble bags that be he brought the mail to laramie in a W wagon gon god from thence on pack mules that the th snow was waa presumed to be one hundred feet deep in some places on tile the upper where he was ins detained three days had four mules frozen to death at strawberry creek where he was deta oeta detained ned four days by the blowing of the tile snow and that frow fiew the of january to to the of cf fi ft breary he was obliged to go into winter quarter wyart ers erx nm near the south sooth pass tb tha snow being not less than five feet deep on un in average the irps rrt 1 CP emhe W daim baim im the weber according to mr Ar arnolla report port he is entitled to great credit fw for his hia dili diligence genee tad lind per sev severance eranee crance in coining through at the season and u i sr tle u j which he lie did M mr ephraim hanks who left this place with the mail on the first of january passed ft bridger and took the south route to laramie consequently did not meet this mail there was no mail expected from independence in january or february the contract requiring only the passing and re passing of ten mails per annum starting on the first of the month the next mail leaving on the first of march will be due here on the first of april but if it arrives by the middle of april it will do well unless the tra velling improves very rapidly |