Show lifers letters From Fort ave fart k 1 I I 1 aug august U st 1865 to THE wo have been blessed with extra extraordinary oi health tins this country it Us is said aid by some of the old settlers settle rd is is very healthy tile the thermometer during summer months will range froan 80 to degrees afternoon ter tor noon during the winter and spring pring months 60 degrees in inthe the acter afternoon noon rain rarely known this fort is elevated two hundred bundled feet above tho level of tile the colorado river riv eralso also six hundred bundled feet above the ocean distance from tile the ocean or gulf 0 ot california to head of navigation one thousand five hundred mile this would be within tap twp hundred miles of oc salt lake citi acty the colorado is quite qubie as ladeas large as the ali c sacramento tile the mormon trade winch which lias has formerly been avith tho the eastern states will idoa soon lie changed to sin san francisco and Is is worth V 0 rth including frei freight ohi 27 2 00 annually which which will b bo transported up tip this river ri ver this and what government freight ma kiy I 1 pass up will have i quite il a tendency tow toward ird stimulating ling chiv civilization 1 upon the thanks of this thia majestic afna 1 stream that lias been can so eo 1 long 1 occupied I 1 ly by the aborigines fort foit whipple lc distant fronimo from mo jave by land one hundred 1 and I eighty mil miles 1 es is quaite quart cis 9 of gonci al I mason the commander of this department deportment I 1 t Irb hostile stile tubes of indians indiana cs c s fand the whole dig distance te those to be dreaded alethe are the apaches who offer to fight whites min man td man ian they live as good implements arwe as we the number round about the fort and its acin r ity who pretend to be very friend ly IV nothing but the presence of tho broo troop 9 keeps them in id subjection rig tribe raise corn ani and put pump pumpkins ki kina ns on the hank bank of the river t they ey use im in connection with something that grows spontaneous called 11 mesquite Mus quite |