Show C j mint we stepped into A the mint the tile other day and saw two or three men rolling out the golden bars like tire ready read for the dies that thit th it is what hells help make trade brisk s i J for the news G S L city oct 2 1850 DH WILLARD villard RICHARDS richarts dear sir having just arrived from california in company with thirty four of the brethren led by president amasa lyman I 1 thought a few remarks about our journey and tile the emigrants would not be uninteresting 0 to your readers and at some future time when convenient would mould be glad to give you a more full account of the country society ac we left the mormon tavern the of august general 0 C rich accompanying us as far as carson valley a distance of miles from sacramento the emigration had been coming for a month from the states before we left sacramento we passed for the first fifteen days at an average of one thousand per day most of which were in a state of starvation we found the tile feed for our animals good in consequence of tile the overflowing of the rivers in the early part of the season which made tile the river bottoms miry on the desert which is between salmon trout or carson river and the sink of marys river we found an awful destruction of property wagons 0 carriages harness ac were strewed from one end of the desert to the other and so wilful were the owners that lest these articles should be of any use to any other person they have cut and destroyed them in in a way not to mistake their meaning 1 on this tilis desert the dead animals were so numerous that the stench was almost intolerable one of our company whilst riding along counted 1400 head by the tile roadside road side beside hundreds more wore were scattered over the plain I 1 near tar the sink of mary s river we lost two of our brethren by the die cholera viz john gould and farnham kynion both taken sick at the tile sanie same time and died the saine same night some sonic of the tile emigrants grants died just before our arrival at t that point every day dayi we passed hundreds of emigrants and the fl further arther we met them from the mountains the more distressed they were for provisions and I 1 am much afraid that many will never see the sierra nevada mountains and if they are so fortunate as to get there will find it difficult to get across the snow we met the last train of emigrants g twenty miles west 0 of f the head of marys river and saw a man with a wheelbarrow east of goose creek the indians are very troublesome and hostile many of the emigrants having been shot while on OR guard these indians have become so bold that they will attack a small party rob and often kill the men and drive away their animals into the mountains although our company had no trouble with them at the head of marys river they have a stronghold strong hold in a kanyon where they have llave at the present time about 1000 head of animals which they have stolen from the emigrants this season we met a number of persons who had bad come hastings cutoff who have all declared it is a much longer road and a much more dan dangerous t erous crous one on account of the desert of 91 miles and also the indians many of the emigrants havin having 9 to travel on foot packing their provisions on their backs the indians having driven off all their animals the gold mines have not been so good this year as they were last in consequence of high water but the prospects were more nat flat bering when we left and it was reported that the southern mines such as the marcedes meri posa san joaquin and kings rivers will be worked with profit this winter kings river is only a short distance from los angelos in con COD consequence sequence of which E emigrants mi taking the south route will be able to avail themselves of these mines almost as soon as they tiley get through the tile mountains from the to the loth of october be ing the best time to leave here for los an angelos Z elos yours respectfully JOSEPH CAIN GAIN P S there has been much sickness on the route this season every day we passed more or less graves and at the head of marys river we passed about 20 per day I 1 saw more than one hundred dead cattle by the way side which had had pieces cut out of them by the starving emigrants |