Show THE SAN JUAN COUNTY The Hyde Party at Its Destination I t Hard Country Murderous Utes The following is i f letter received by 1 gentleman in this city from a member of tbe party of Mr William Hyde which started for the San Juan County during the early part of the present summer MONTEZDMA SAN JUAN C September 5th lEBO We arrived in this little place about a week ago after a long and severe struggle We are about 500 miles southeast of Salt Lake We are all well but I am sick of the country already We are eivantyfire miles from the nearest postoffice Brigham Young Erastu Snow Marian Lyman and three or four others ara traveling through this part of the country and they will post our letters They came via Gum and Grand River and are going up the San Juan to Mancascol and tbence to New Mexico and Arizona Ari-zona I This valley is about fortyfive miles I long and threefourths of a mile wide witb a rich sandy soil that will grow almost anything I will take a good j deal of labor to get the water out of the river I do not think I want any of it ii i is too hard a oountry and too hard to get at We are 300 miles from Alamoia the nearest railroad and the road is generally blockaded block-aded in tbe winter with snow Three or four of us are going up there in about a week so as to be able to get back before winter I intend in-tend to come a running for Salt Lake in the spring We see plenty of Indians Navajoes and a few Utes There were ten of the former here yesterday with one of their big chiefs He made Mr Hyde a present of come of the finest blankets I ever saw He said he was a friend to tho whites and wanted the whole nation to be friends to them There are some hostile Utes around and the people ten miles below ui are building a fort in anticipation of trouble I Here should be trouble and the Navajoeo do not help us we will stand a poor show yet i we are compelled com-pelled to fight we will think of our friends in Salt Lake and fight hard A boy was hot on Grand River by the Thee last week He and his brother were hobbling their horses when the Indians commenced firing The oldest told the other to t try and get home on the oe horse which had not been turned loose and then took to the cedars himself The younger boy received a ball in his leg and tel from his boras The Indians then rode up shot him in the head and left him for dead He recovered reconre sufficiently to crawl to a friendly Indian camp and the next day they took him home He was alive at last accounts but his recovery is doubtful Will tell you of Alumoaa after we return re-turn Our address is Montezuma Ban Juan County Utah cia Mancas Colorado |