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Show FROM SNAKE RIVER. EDITOR LEADER - At last writing we were having a big thaw, but as we feared, it caught a severe cold from which it has just recovered and is now doing finely. The ice is broken in places on the river, and fishermen are improving their time. One party tells me that he and his partner have caught 2000? pounds of fish the past winter, some weighed 1-1/2 pounds. Three men lately came from Oregon to Eagle Rock on snow shoes; also two men from Mr. Oliver's camp. They report snow to be from 3 to 5 feet deep and that all their work has been done on snow shoes in the camps. Report says that in the vicinity of Blackfoot the ranchers have lost about 2000 head of stock. We anticipate having our numbers increased this spring by 50 families from Cottonwood, U. T. If they are live "Mormons" they will receive a warm welcome, for that is the kind that is wanted here. If any of the brethren have sons who wish to make homes in a new country, this is a good place for them. They will have the best advice and example, for we have a live president, an old pioneer that knows how to secure the advantages of a new country and always says "Come, boys." Our schools are still in session, and we hold our first meeting tomorrow at Eagle Rock. The three Tetons are 75 miles from here. The reputed height of the highest peak is 18,000? feet, but we have more interest in the coming season than we have in hoisting the "Star Spangled Banner" on the highest peak of the Tetons. A step from the sublime to the ridiculous is an adventure of a young man at the house of a respectable rancher, where I chanced to be stopping one night lately. Young man came in, as I supposed, for an evening's chit-chat, but as other events proved, he was courting. Young man was brimful and running over with chit-chat; he was in ecstacy; he spread out his imagination in his novel narrations of ?? escapes from bears, tarantulas, and Indians, always taking great pains to get an approving glance both from daughter and mamma. The next morning at breakfast the young man said that milking innocent cows was his forte. Old lady said she had a cow that father gave her that gave the richest of milk. Young man begged the honor of pailing? the heirloom. Yes, he could if he would be careful not to pinch her. Exit the three to the yard, with the old man and myself on the woodpile taking notes. The old lady had the cat under her shawl. When they reached the cow, young man praised her mild eyes and gentle look, planted his head in her flanks with his body at an angle of forty-five degrees. The daughter was on his right, petting the old cow. The mother was on the opposite side; the milking was progressing finely when the old lady placed the cat on the cow's back and commenced pulling it backward. It is needless to say that the heirloom hastily lifted the young man and spread him on the "beautiful." He gathered himself up slowly and started to the house without his hat. When reminded of it, he became excited and warned them to hurry away from her as she was coming down with the pink eye. I expect the old man is holding his sides yet; he was, the last I saw of him, and if any of the railroad boys hear any one called "pink eye", they will understand. Moral: When young men go sparking the whole family, they should let old folks do most of the talking and not spread on the impossible too thick. CEDAR BUTTE ISLAND, March 18th, 1882. D. H. CARR? |