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Show Written for Thb- Uioh. '., .- HAHDCA8T EXPERIENCE. ' , . -. 1 ' Continued. ' ' . i .' t ' Myself ancj. family stopped at Green River . fot ten weeks, and for two weeks some member of our Handcart oompany kept coming along,, and we helped them as we could.'. During oursojourn at Green'River we procured provisions and a gentle ox, I made shafts to our cart, hitched hitch-ed up bur. ox and started- on . our way for the land, of our choice, with plenty to eat and; our. hearts lcheer-fub. lcheer-fub. 'We had traveled but two days when our ox t took sick, arid were obliged to stop, we then being but a few miles east of Fort Brider. , . We hadi.only stayed a few hours some teamsters came alopg and their waeans . were emDtv. and thev were going to Salt' take pity. . They had jbeen to somepf. the stockrranchers near by, with provisions. .We made arrangements- with them to take us and our effects to Salt Lake and so loaded all but our ,oxt. on their wagon, and went on our way rejoic-ingrand rejoic-ingrand we landed in Salt Lake City on the 10th day of November, 1859; after a -hard and tedious journey oi"- one ' thousand miles, haying suffered! many hardships, hunger and' privations,. to -reach the place God had'designed fora gath-ering; gath-ering; place for his people.. , , ; To bewtttlnued ' ' ' ' |