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Show LOliASi CASUS HOAU MAIL, MA'l'- TERS. Pauls, Rich County, ) December 20th, 1S70. J Editors Herald : The Logan canon . road has been I much spoken of, on account of the large amount of labor expended upon it to make it the most direct and best road between Cache and Rich counties. Already it is the best mountain road I know of lor summer travel ; and it is the intention of the authorities of both counties to improve it very considerably con-siderably next season. Last Monday Messrs. John and Fred. Theurer and myself, left Providence for Paris, and determined to go that way to try its condition in winter. There were a few inches of snow in Cache valley when we left, and it gradually grad-ually deepened to fifteen inches at the end of twenty-five miles, the distance made the first day. Here we expected teams - from Paris ' to meet us. Not meeting them,: we pushed on next morning in hopes of finding them, but at night, on Tuesday, Tues-day, we were iu snow two and a half feet deep on the level, and had still six miles up hill with deeper snow to reach the summit. Our teams were so worn out that we concluded to let them have what feed -we had, leave our wagon, and on horse and mule-fcack mule-fcack fiuish our journey. - We started at 3 o'clock a. - m. on Wednesday morning, and reached St. Charles in about six hours afterwards. About a mile from where we left our wagon, we came to the holes in the snow occupied occu-pied the night before by those who had come this far to meet us, but had become discouraged, thinking we also had turned back. From this experience, as winter has but just commenced, we think it impossible im-possible to keep this road open in winter unless there were an almost constant travel; and, then, , of course, feed must be taken for the uncertain duration of the trip. The weather was beautifully olear, and there was certainly no reason to complain of the heat. I will mad this letter to-day, but it is rather uncertain when it will reach you. Heretofore we have had but one mail per week, which has been a great inconvenience to business men and the public generally; but lately it seems our mail contractors have been making alterations for their own convenience, which makes our mail facilities amount to nothing. Tne mail reaches this valley on Wednesdays, Wed-nesdays, and, in being distributed among the settlements, mail matter is collected, which does not leave until the following Tuesday night ; thus iying in the hands of the mail carrier, or at the Bloomington Post Office from whence the mail leaves the valley, for nearly a whole week. Just think of that! and please talk of it. Yours, William Budge. |