Show I 1 i 1 correspondence TRIP TO RUSH VALLEY G S L CITY J jay ay 21 editor OF or defrey DEFRET NEV 1 sr oi 1 friday addy th the lih ith fist aist n a I 1 left this elev in company wih with elders eldus J C little J W V cummings and C V spencer on a visit mt to rush valley we made a halt hait at the tile city of r I 1 T and and foura t b ir c irps N rv ry poor pour ba h n t um 1 b e n in fiut ost iv destroyed crips TV V oi 3 salt tait and arid saila salia tia tim mait malt are aie about abou 1 t to leave thit that settlement we dined vilh bishop who i ho from that boitt accompanied us upon our journey ot irney spent tile the night in tooele thoele city where the potato crop vaa vas waa was being destroyed dest debt roved by the rot ro and eit cit elt worms i z i th 11 p loum oun w wr CT calso iso se erel j ur i I 1 the e corn in that at 5 3 pm of the almi 19 11 we e were again agall 1 on our siy sly ly and soon saw several indians to t the he west of us and also a smoke in the direction of the barracks iricks ba though at the time we supposed the to have sarion from the smoking walls wails alls i and brand brane f h 0 1 b ignacs which as though IL L y v hid bid been bem burning for or twenty r boire tu inq etwas it wag was wih ni 1 considerable difficulty that we found the ent but after two hours travel and boarch search we e found dr luke johnson eith with ith some mif dozen doen other families ioa loj loa located about 10 aniles in tes les southwest south west of the barracks near the ino intrain and occupying a narrow strip of arld alid land arid upon the bankson vilich aich floi floes s into the valley their house houses I 1 and stock w nvere pre pro upon one side bide of the creek and their farming land upon the other they had some 75 75 aci act accica es of wheat and corn sown and planted latr some of the wheat looked very well weli eil ell tiar cabins were built about thirty i rods apart i pon upon the banks of the creek sur our bounded with the willows on the creek and cedars on the bluffs and much exposed to the indians dr johnson johson informed us that they ferst first saw the smoke i ling ising ang ing from the barracks in the j afternoon of cf f tile the day before it was supposed to b be some of Tin ticks bau baa band who had visited the valley vailey nd set them themon OB fire as some friendly indian i informed them chahe that he was camped in a vaile west est cst within half a days travel biad i ad with h him j in 25 or 30 men and was killing a beef deafly every day dav of the cattle be he stole stele from hurs huns 1 I ker iker and others last spring we call cali called r d the people together what few there were at t home and advised them to get their li hous lioums ouss to together cether Zether in in the form of a fort put their arms and ind ammunition mm in good order and in in a state cf ef defence dp fence dr luke johnson was a appointed to preside over the branch and an eminence d ds doi s anahed upon which to build a I 1 fort as facin it there is a commanding view of i i their vaclev vall vali v and settlement and it has a spring of freshwater fresh v arr both being requisites we coni considered from v hat bat little time we had to make ob se nation P judged aged rush valley to be much more bun sun bc be for herding herdin than farming aa there appeared apap ired to be a 0 carcity scarcity of water for u tion in ili a dry season I 1 after spending spin ding some eight hours in colinger co vinsel lingel in ing and bruness bw b uness we e returned to tooele thoele cit elt city and carrik d ov 0 cr night and on the returned home we wo ild lid a adise ise the inhabitants of tooele thoele and rush rash valleys valie vaile s to be apah the watch tow tower er an ani 1 in a state of defence defer defex ice for without doubt c arid and his band may pay them a N isit vist wll wil wili ii the tho intention of taking takina their scalps and a d cattle cattie as far fir as they can yours truly W WOODRUFF |