| Show difficulties OF OE TRAVEL SOUTHWARD it appears from a letter from james T wilson late of the second ward of this city on his way southward for the purpose of settling permanently in arizona that the roads in that direction are in some places almost impassible the fact that the streams that have to be crossed are swollen to unprecedented precedent dd proportions renders the difficulties of travel exceedingly formidable mida mi dable bie ble the letter was written at the eighteenth crossing of the sandy ten miles north of signal co A T one of brother wilsons Wil sons horses had bad died greatly impeding his progress and he and the party with which lie he was traveling found the sandy so high that it was impossible to cross it and they concluded t toJi alt ait a while and rest their teams which b were well weli nigh worn out with fatigue the swollen river had swept away entire farms and greatly damaged others the party was led by brother Bush who had been appointed captain he attempted to sound the crossing on horseback but had not gone into the stream farther than a couple coupie of rods when the shifting of the quicksand swept the animals feet from under and horse and rider rolled over into the powerful powers ua current brother bush was wa undermost and had bad a hard liard struggle to regain liis ills feet when lie he ild iid did lid so the moving sand did the same for him as for the horse but after a desperate struggle he escaped drowning the horse hor se was several several times ti mes overwhelmed by the torrent but being finally washed on to a sandbank sand bank and havins his head and shoulders above water was enabled to get his breath after which he made a plunge shoreward and reached the bank in an addenda to tile the letter written wr itten on the ard 3rd dinst brother wilson states that the tile river had risen at least a foot higher rendering the prospect for crossing at the point the party had leachet reached still more remote captain bushias bush was just on the point of leaving for signal on horseback to mall mail letters for the party and ascertain whether or not a practicable route more immediately available to enable the lound round aund arty to proceed on their way could be |
