Show editorial correspondence FORT U T aug 28 A trip to fort foi t bridger at this or for that matter artter at any other season is always pleasant though when performed by coach somewhat fatiguing leaving salt lake at 1 4 a m on the dinst we arrived safe sound and tired fired at t bridger the following morning in time to partake of a most excellent and refreshing I 1 breakfast bov hospitably pitiably awaiting our coming it is rc remarkable what a softening influence hospitality kindly greeting and anticipation of ones every desire such is as we always find at bridger cr have on a blodys di disposition position in the midst of old friends and a warm welcome your correspondent corrca speedily forgot the fatigues of his journey the rough Z ruts in parle parleys y canon the deep holes in echo and tho the stiff walk up quaking asp bill to say nothing of the jolt jolt and bump bump of holladay s best stage coach As we w reached weber river a refreshing thunder storm cooled the air and laid the dust all night long the rain fell sometimes in genial showers sometimes in torrents but with curtains buckled down tight we the insiders snoozed away as dry as our companions last hist boak an awakening an now and then to sympathize with driver and out side mes messenger sener coming through echo canon and up yellow creek hill bill the night was as dark as erebus and the road entirely indistinguishable every now and then somebody 1 to alight and blint out the path lest we tip incontinently over some rome yawning precipice never have we experienced such thick darkness outside one could not see an inch beyond his nose save when the lightning flashed and pa ayed pyro technical antics around our ur load laera erg heads inside it was so dark that we wc yven ven see the p of our coni comrades rades boaks 1 this infinity of darkness may perhaps be appreciated by examining the lie VEDETTE of the wherein it is chronicled who accompanied us a I lellow ellow like poor yorick of infinite jest 11 recognized in army anny circles as a very 11 cass but wu we didn dian t upset we just sat stil still I 1 and did ai as they do in illinois when it rains videlicet videl icet let it rain nun arrived at bridger we found that colonel Willi williams anik nevada cavalry had taken forty cavalry men to bear lake valley in pursuit of the said to be ravaging that coli country while matthewson with forty others had bad gone further eastward up green river to cut off on their retreat the indians not the cavalry the two bodies wu will probably effect a junction on the lande r cuton cutoff cut off on and return to this post shortly your correspond deat begins however to suspect let that the sty story of indian massacres in bear valley was all stuff mere leather and prunella without foundation W whether intended as a hoax or simply arose from the fears of some respectable old lady such reports are likely to do harm barm the cry of wolf wolf where there any bolf ageont the prem premises isea tends tead s tomake tomake folks careless when real danger menaces the prompt promptness neim however with which the military authorities responded to the first intimation of danger dibber is ie laudable ian an tle anat three government trains from the missouri river numbering in all some 75 wagons arrived with commissary stores for this military district about abolia one half balf of these them wagons were loaded with flour while many more mo rao re rc aregust are just behind constituting a full years supply for the troops in the dis kiet bodet of t utah A years supply of subsistence tam for this post was wag taken off and the on kneir way rejo rejoicing leing A day or two since I 1 accepted an ail invitation to vit wt judge carters farms the upper and lower the former is about twive and the latter seven miles milea from UM the POK poet situate on blocks fork I 1 was wae both pleaded and surd at the splendid crops being this yew year rat so BO geat 16 w bout lout two dundr hundred 04 1 jr aw w 4 so bowed sowed wed in oats a anil judging from the appearance p eari cc of f the fields will reap a most bountiful hay cutting and stacking is pro progress gresa 1 ingra rapidly eidly and next week ho he will commence harvesting hs b Is grain wednesday night our companion de dc voyage the aforesaid having succeeded at last in mustering that man took look his departure for camp douglas Doii glas leaving behind only the memory of his latest joke to scintillate amm the gloom dark as that night 0 in the stage coach the latest joke referred to was when a youngster about 11 3 4 years old applied to enlist in the nevada cavalry our friend ruled him out on the score of age but consolingly recommended him to the infantry infant ry corps the youngster having caught cold all the night before cooly replied that he was too bor horse sell io respond to that suggestion sug gest cat ion on saturday a gay party of ladies and gentlemen made up tip an impromptu picnic to the recently discovered coal oil spring taking carriages we went ca eastward stward along the stage broad road about 17 miles then turned off into pioneer JI ollow here a sumptuous lunch beside a clear cold spring renewed our strength for a bor horseback ride of a few miles tho the coal oil spring is a most wonderful freak of nature for an extent of about three hundred by fifty fl feet of the side hill bill the ground is saturated to an unknown depth with the oil the latter breaks forth from the hill side and trickles trickle down into the creek below in apparently illimitable quantities A party of enterprising gentlemen have located these springs spring and propose sending to the east for machinery to refine it this and the adjoining territories can be cheaply supplied with a splendid quality of coal oil when the machinery arrives these springs r are about twenty two miles from bridger and one hundred hun dred from great salt lake city and within three miles of he stage road near by is a splendid vein of stone coal which has bas also been located by the same parties A substantial log house bouse has boon been erected near by and everything be tokens a speedy working of both the coal veiland vin and the oil spring on saturday the miners iii ald ld a public meeting organized ir tho the bridger mining r district adopted bylaws by laws and elected mr john sharp recorder after a spirited contest today to day some emigrants from virginia city I 1 complained T of the doings doings ofa of a aoud loud molita mouthed 1 jin in their party named jeremiah wade of mo capt baldwin commanding post in the absence of lt col coi williams ar rested the rebel and gave him it a trial the evidence was conclusive and the self proclaimed p d jeff davis sympathizer was committed to the guard honse in the morning lie he will commence the interesting operation of packing san sand which wholesome exercise will the be confined cn con tined as 1 a I warning to rebels and as punishment for his hig wordy word v 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