Show Tho Arizona Country The foUowiLg extract of a letter I from D W Savage of Holder Millard Mil-lard County who started from borne for the San Joan region but who has landed in a section of country to 3 which a number of the friends of cur readers have traveled is worth perusing and we give the extract entire I en-tire It is dated Rio Perks December I Decem-ber IStb with a poatcript from Holbrook I Hol-brook December 21st After penning I a few items of a family nature he writes I We bad good weather and excellent luck and a good time coming I through We never IcsS a hoof of stock nor broke a thing not even a log chain My oxen came through without hoes or grain and are in good order now From Johnson KIwI County to Little Colorado 160 nnles the feed is not very fiocd but you never saw such grass as tbere is up that river When we had traveled forty miles up the Little Colorado we came to the prettiest country I over saw Looking east as tar m the eye can see is a level plain covered with the best of grass the river flowing west is lined on each side with cottonwood trees Here I saw the sun rise it was a grand sight to eee is laro round ball of fire corniDi up out of the level ground It is uardly light in the morning before be-fore the eun is up and it does not set till nearly dark the days are two hours longer than in Utah Looking outh we saw a smooth plain about seventyfive miles across it There the tops of the Mokahone mountains are visible In the wet twenty miles is the San Francisco P6ak a mountain somewhat liko Nebo the top IE already covered with snow it is a mountain on a plain There are no hills between us and it There is a large forest of long leafed pine growing grow-ing on the level all around the mountain moun-tain in which there are hundreds of deer and antelope some elk bear and panther There have been some of the latter killed that measured eight feet from end of nose to tip of tail All over this country there Is more and better grass than I ever saw before I had no idea that there could be as much grass as there is here heren It has been storming for three days the ground is just covered with snow but as there is no froat in the ground it will not lay long I hava not found a place to suit me yet water is too scarce for me iu this part of the country I have traveled over 300 miles in Arizona and have not seen a place that I would advise anyone to stop at to make a home but if they wanted to raise stock they could not find a better place I atn going to tay here this winter and thensee the rest of Arizona nnd if I do not nee a better place than I have eeen I will try Mexico Times are quite lively hero Eight of us have taken three miles of railroad rail-road to grade at IGo per yard I think we will do well as we work our oxen and do not feed any grain I work one yoke one day and the other yoke the next day and they are etting fat I have built a house and we are quite comfortable Messrs J W Young Brigham Young Erastus Snow and J N Smith are tbe contractors They let us have all the store pay and provisions provis-ions we want I think we will do first rate my horses look well My cows give a good mess of milk we have had butter ever since we left Utah end are now making all we want to use I could do better right here than tt Holden but I think I can find a better place than I have seen yet J W Young Co have a large contract here twentyfive miles from our camp on Rio Perka I have come down for supplies Flour is 7o per pound beans 7c sugar 20c denims from 18o to 25c per yard calico from 80 to lOa per yard duck 200 to SOc coffee 27c per pound soda 20u boots from 4 to 8 per lair Everything ia coming down in price as the railroad gets nearer Wo do not have to teed any grain It is quite warm now the snow has all gone ofl We can do all cur work with a plow and scraper It is soft loamy land and not a rock in tbe whole place P SWe had a feast on watermelons water-melons and green squash on the 10th of November |