Show THE PONY EXPRESS mr appleby criticises criticizes capt fishers I 1 account of storm rides hides I 1 filitor editor trib tribune une kindly gic me space lit in your jj to con vet sonic borno ut of col FJ statements lit in ills his article in your our sundays issue As a they impugn my ON on it experiences I 1 certainly should know something about them thein in ili mr fishers a article great la is laid on joe tari sh 1 which Is only a misprint lit in the article ankle lit in the no news si lie he infers to I 1 should hale hae known joe currii sh ile he had been beef a railway con ductor in renn shania came out here and was employed by LIN livingston LIMn Ingston bell co tor for some settle time and in october 1160 lie he was employed by the express compa company riv to ride file between bear river and Millers millersville ville lie ile lode but it a I 1 few trips brills on that route when the long ev lokites boules were shortened up ili and the 1 lder were doomed filled in number he then d va p ap pp cosite r rode the opposite string with mith me between salt luke lake city and pobo tho until the dally daily ins mall started when lie he was alas employed as al conductor until october lc jabi when ho mas sent to milk Mille mi 1110 its as local agent in ili the pining of oc cwi iwi ISO 1 he 10 0 resumed aci dined the occupation of condee toi to alth ill tile the mall tr for s months ind and until he became involved lit in the ly nelling of oc jim clift at areen acen river tor for tile the killing of jeske kail eat I 1 at schell creek and ami front the notoriety thus although RO no one who knew hilow tile the condemned hini bilm he was induced to quit tile the road and his him after fate atu as stated by mr fisher la Is in ili the main a I 1 As to mr voi lev there wore mere two henry knotley and 13 IC worley bony pony alders ild ert alemy M voiley was tit first vider employed on oil tile the first denion east he was anxious to bring brim the first eipl ais fronette fro from nethe ilie east so ao lie was as placed fit at t he I 1 c cast cant end nd of the flit route cast A worley left the hie route louto in au firt eust asco and a 1 short time after went att past c and alas aim employed emi loyed lit in the mall tv ire on the eastern end of oc tile the road anti and in fit tile the year 1861 lie he joined in an ir if blanch or of the confederate ser ice and it would be sorrowing sor to pui u ue e ahli carata further furt lier nil hn wovley vorley exult the pony neuton wele lode lila ills silling of stock temporal po lly and then william ly lynch ph it mho ho subsequently licit kept a station elation in I 1 n east cast tupton anti and alnie deceased I 1 rode L it for or a halle N hile and lit in september 1869 1369 aco g of oc I botfan took tho the v lonte te ao as the regular rider lie rode a f few ew ILI kilps I 1 P 1 ulla fill horse fell tilt hlin him lit in ll 11 l l canyon banyon and injured ills his knee I 1 was ordered by the to take the route I 1 tit nl the time lima helper to wood reynolds on oil the mall line and john P r hardle of tills city took my place will reynolds in my reference to the ilder 1 lust lost beltt ein heio heie and camp floyd I 1 explained that it was in ill a t di lftIng 1 snow enow and conveyed the I 1 inference e n v e t hat it was MUS almost imp bible rot for lh ill I 1 ilder der to weather it a at all and mr b 1 I fisher r IP her holl S ills hla liy by insinuating tha that t I 1 was forty hours in ill going over om a route raule that I 1 haic haac mado mad in four hours aud and a half forget ling entirely that it he was wn t twenty four hours houra going ot oner r a loute of low bills and open country philp I 1 nad had the alie wa va match mountains to climb anil nit mr if her should Khoi ill ills family ret tit it it 1 r ills his recollection of that irlo dates date fr from 0 n ft tatt 1 0 event of ills hin man lape as it wa Ls 0 on n tl 0 2 nd ind of february awl and tle tile mail hoys boys ind in clerks in ili L D I 1 OB acore had received sonic fresh oysters by a cuilo 1 10 8 fly aily I 1 in A th this IN countley at that time lonii cu and a duly dull Y C celebrated e lei the anniversary of 0 tile pat cathor I 1 tt ter or of his country and if my I 1 dora does not deceive roc me t the lie onice office at vas as not exactly a tan banquet qUeL hall deserted leser ted when mr all fisher arrived in the arter afternoon noon ot of february ard 3rd and that lie he enJoy enjoyed edI the refit oh ments remaining over biorn tile the day before vait let that bo be its BS it may I 1 stayed at the office till sill of the and 2nd d of 0 february waiting for the lle express to conic come frona from tile the west and received it at 3 v p n m on tile the 0 of february and tit at tile the mouth ot if parleys pAi leys canyon began to encounter the deep flow arid and before I 1 not got to hardys it va u an half NA way fly up tip aliv lin lincous rous aides and eliell I 1 at AI I 1 raved at loun talu dell I 1 wa avas med that there hll hil been fearful snow slides on thi the big biff mountain and that I 1 epli hanky hanks who had the file contract to keep tile pass own was on oil tu tan mountain alth six nix men and yoke of 0 cattle math rollers to break it a r rol lid through I 1 changed horse anti and wh when P n I 1 irr tved sit at tho the si sivile scene vile of it tile slides mr and ills hl non lien pave gave me to lo understand that thai ohp th aull forcibly prevent me it I 1 undertook to I 1 i coxs tile tho mountain that night and I 1 abent back to the station ind marln via ia I 1 could see crossed over ahti slides the I 1 now inow having frozen frozin 0 90 o that it il hid up lip I 1 the h 0 pony but ahr after I 1 pot got over tile the p I 1 encountered loose new ny cn and six feet deep on fin top to P ol of the trail and tho the only pos possible lible way to fett fet was to feel feci illoah alth your ivet t for the burled trail for a few rota rois and then back and rad lead and enri pull horse up as a s far ay as you ind had been arid continue ahn and a en lh the horse mould kt izet oft off ill the I 1 trail ligi into ill iff I 1 loose bosl P snow now a and n d a almost moa out of night and thell you would have to walk on and the ih snow down before you could ret get tin tile horse back onto the ibe trail crall and white w hale struggling alon along in this manner I 1 heard a riot fired and ff III thu ilia cheres tny my dorsti I 1 worried albing I 1 ng for a hundred undred li aads when on cn t a point ot of I 1 met loc joe carrying his also die he he 8 rill me persuading m ma horse borso and fired h his 14 pl itell as ol a ignal that thai the pony from ilie cant was biear aca alp id left echo about I 1 iho he same isamo time that I 1 I 1 left e ft kat lako lake city and in worrying wind and walli wallow loing in file snow flow from froin baht cn CAA 51 11 the ohp mountain as am I 1 had ou on thal side bide his hii horse horm had kicked him temporarily pora pors rily ci him ile he had found a place of shelter apar the trail chere acre the mind had bad whirled tit tho allow from the base bane tit of 1 a I large pine tree and getling down in the holo hole mith v ach the bark and done dead limbs of the tree made A n JI alre re and spent the night flight there we ve passed path pach other oiher lie making for my horse ant and I 1 for lit his and we both made the same time he in salt lake lak about the ti time me I 1 arched at echo I 1 was wad reported as haloff ing peri perished sheel and air fisher knew tile ho C layl jiff the de express fin and d could hac bac in A 1 l single and paragraph aph ex pl allied tile the dolay delay showed hla his desire to be fair jn in the treatment 0 f the subject an to on 0 on ri the en astern stern A a anade no account t orble route 0 it as it Inc lapat to ti our was an as an pony riders and to lo occupation peri once anti and of compare the cx V in riding over that winter chope fd out went avent t to the toll hardships sheep pa pasture find and perseverance noc to surmount tile alie obstacles and thred in tile alie SOO once unto miles extremely thin cast cas at of 0 tills city williamf P salt lake city aug i 1 r |