Show the th J 10 1 adan briage R bubush iness card fro from M f 8 john jhn R clawson clason jj V P arg S SL L city gab 1864 edit editors I 1 i ors bedette not having the most i c idea that I 1 was doing anything but what was wag honorable judge my surprise when I 1 read your paragraph in fliday mornings s issue N he reina desire to preserve arty as well ai as that of the goi from damage dama gc as a adest test of patriot ism deeny ngak that it some person had bad been abujin abusing g your cars by grossly miar misrepresenting e present ing lie facts ica and blustin fL trusting tiu ustin sting that you are arc gentlemen clemen m willing illing t to 0 repair repair all injuries public or private privat 6 th ine incurred burred through tile the medium of your yoa dolum I 1 trust yon you will ill insert the following which can be bally ally sustained relative to the transaction to which it refers I 1 built a small bridge blidge across mill creek for aiho the purpose of crossing the the same alth w ith ice fro nl jordan it nv was 9 placed some distance fioril from the he main road lightly constructed of ona one thickness of two binchi plank blank placed on two daffold caf fold poles the largest one 7 or 8 inches tl through rout at the but qt land and 35 feet feel ion long 1 the other much smaller it was quite sufficient forgy pu i pose but unsafe tc for heavy go ve wagons drawing aiom forty to sity sixt y bundled as any manof jud ment can tho the very day on which I 1 1 I 1 I 1 J ha had 4 fini finished s ud b all ill arg my ice andr and designed ll 11 v i talan taking up the flie bridge to e c it it for or a another er t mason II barned afi that at teams were laci b cing 1 ng sent from limp ice Y I 1 met them opposite my house busy 1 mildly informed them ill fhay f I 1 had bad fi finished 6 1 abed 1 hauling and designed moving the birdge 1 adre idre tint day and rc requested quested them nat to fo cross atas it as it was vas unsafe for their their heavy teams cami the tc ii men n replied that J mi must it see the W lovos 11 4 maisland Mai al sWand lial and immediately drol droe e oil el I 1 1 1 1 J I 1 no not fiffi t 1 likina it my duty to seek that i individual ald id I 1 ila 1 I I 1 and an ill ival izing I 1 was pr preserving I 1 esc iving my pip erty aiom dail damage I 1 isen my illy team and thi thice cc w J 1 men U to lemol io P ithe ti le bi I 1 idge they I 1 had bad barely talen taken up lie he first plank when iben the officer in cliar charge 1 of the teams s came and requested them io fa dela v il t io 1 cm av al of the bridge until they 11 had ag re re crossed 1 promising to pay for all dam ige go the men readily and patiently aai waited upwards of houis bouis for their ichuin ic i they crossed back with much difficulty lie ho la ladt t team breaking bie aking m the he bildne precipitating elpi tating a span of into the stream c I 1 they would I 1 dionci dion dioN ined cd hid tl the water ter been I 1 deep I 1 ni i E ftc wm 71 a i were ere no nn ryar 0 TL I 1 pas ba b v coll ave NO pa par r fici tic oil tole eom it cc icv pressed him elm 1 l achl abl liggim gey men t to 0 assist mil mine n la I 1 loading adin N which icci they ay ca cheerfully er fully did he be also abo that be bould not cis fakira his trun ln 0 on n such a bri bridge r 1 again again I 1 for I 1 ten doll bollal ai sper per team J I 1 thase s facts perverted have givan rise 11 to wa he par paragraph a rash in inch las has t called fort forth h this in 1 aply alj bouis i s f r 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 JOHN TOI INh CLAWSON all so |