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Show 'WAY DOWN SjUTJ. Iu Arizona and the Way to (let There. Cane Sprinus, A. T., October 8th, 1877. Editors Herald: After a rough journey, we arrived; here and are thankful. Since leaving St. George we have traveled an almost flw ro ui sometimes no road at all. Three fourths of the distance we followed fol-lowed deep washes, nothing being left in places to make a road of but huge boulders and cemented gravel and heavy bodies of sand. The other fourth is an Indian trail over a very broken country, with water very scarce. ' One of my partners -and family (Ed, Jones) all but lost their lives through want of water, and would have done so completely but that I hauled water from our present camping place, a distance of over five miles, and quenched their thirst, sav ing them and their teams by the feat. but a little while longer would have luruumbed. ll any of your friends contemplate coming this wy, and over this road, with oxen, tell them thai beinre they leave St. George they had better shoot their teams aud Btart afoot, and they will be belter ofi; on Ibis road, muid you, but r believe it is the beet one, as 100 miles is cut of!" by it. If I were iu Salt Lake city now, wilh my present pres-ent experience, and intended to take this same trip over again, I would itakeagood riding animal and pack uuother, and what we have accom phshed in three months I would do in twenty d.iyn and do it with enae. And if I had a family I would put a span of good mules on a three inch arm wagon and put nothing in it but my bedding and clothe arid what provisions would Ust me 'through. The Lord deliver me from ox teams ! If I h.id capital I would take up a good-sized peclion of this place, hs I never saw a better range in my life: I grass up to the hub for fifteen miles jeacbsiiteof these springs, and good, 'rich grasa at that. It h worth $50,-tKW. $50,-tKW. and no water nearer than the Colorado on the north, and Hackberry on the south, eo there is no chance for other stock to eat a body out. I A gentleman from 1'rescolt, on his j road to Piue vall-y and Pinlo to got n load of butter and eggs, stayed wilh us a couple of nights recently, and told us that ecgasell where he resides for $1.20 a dozen, and good fresh but ler for $1.50 per pound, and flour in Hackberry is worth $12 per hundred; everything else in proportion; so that you see it is a good country for traders to thrive in. We are hound for Prescott ; after we reach there you may hear more b"om Solomon. |