Show interesting colocado cm COL col dee dec 8 02 EDITOR your readers will be gleamed to to licar hear from this part parl of our journey to r demico and also our pro progress ress on anil into ft a r new ew colony which 1 1 lei jew adventurers have set out upon there are 30 90 of the company nil all told pome few left SL citron city on the inh abt T ano xa 0 others vi who ho v vilh ith two car luada of stock goods and on height train jl 21 hours in our advance our party 1 left salt lake cita on th alic 0 9 0 p m D I A 11 G western train westwards dec 7 the indies inches of snow enow which ni wo 0 left in salt alt lake city hald pill its deboli with us until we reached green ireen river miles from 0 ogdan den where we ive passed the deep snow and at grand junction 7 50 a in ill eth we u were ten tell hours making this tun run of miles lilies install but ill of it in the da dail k seeing very little of ofilio tile grand scenery of castle gite gate soldiers summit anit and tile mountain scenery with spanish fork stream which aich lias has been BO often lea des ci cubed abed tile the valley of grand junction is a be beautiful nili ful one ep spreading reading out over a large open country with a nice town towi t on the R R M from grand junction we take tile bl midland idland division niia sinz clars marshal ball pass pas and running up tip a broad valley alij alid up gland giand river in an easterly disei gioi trie scenery is grand van vari gated hills red vi while hite and yellow and a small growth of ceans gives a 1 grand variety attracts tile the notice 0 of f the travelers over the llie road for the first time then the preat great variety of castle peal peaks q Ns miah ith here and there ill yawning gushes guu lies gives a great variety of scenery selery then the lovely river wh vil laich ich winds its way through valley until it terminated naten atea in a narrow walled canyon n h here three engines aro are requited to pull its palace pal ire cars and our special car which the D aaa R G hivo have ap furnished our party as I a special without change to elpaso texas where here we take tile the mexican central to chihuahua mexico passing pasing again into I a snow enow bolt belt and very cold we wa came on oil to As pen junction a tire only the day before had almost the alie town embers yet reminded us of the sad bad and past acene here our train was delayed for a time on oil account of the fire at th tins is point N wn 0 pas paa our to freight cars atio dhoot of tile llie amai ils had been sea fco sick a little ittle also two of our party cie a litt little 1 e sra sick from tile rocking laud land ships Othen is c all ts ra w well ell A at t colorado sp ping inge it was very cold and not so much bucl snow allow on oil the ground round here it we e again are delayed for hours on account of deep snow cast casl yome some of our party took at stroll in the temperance town where they slid said not one single C saloon esloon curses the town our pirty ind consists of AStow A stuwart artand and i family and several of the colonization co pany and officers who own acres ot of land companies have united in one general colon colonization matzoll company all and own acres of a i grant of lidid till to build a zi city ty at salim ROS Itose cilia liia chihuahua old sico our present destination where you may soon lear from us again again yours truly |