| Show 8 maum mp um ej it u at t items or travel JH in arizona arf Arl sona sono ar ra BOUNTIFUL apache apsche county fi bbs arizona may 4 1879 5 4 for fear my frIend friends swill will think of t ilease ne as I 1 doo do of r them hem that they have ft forgotten me I 1 wiil will pen a few lines eo them u a t ever even eer ECI bince a boy when I 1 would 5 at and listen to members of the 1 tty mormon battalion relate their stornes stories A tories of the gila river and ann the 5 bundred 31 hundred bundred mile desert and how they feasted on water melons plucked i butram vines thed ay betone before christmas bei bej 1 I have had a desire to see that count cou iry and as it was waa wet and disa diss C ree ible ibie ble bie I 1 to work during daring january I 1 ci company with brothers Br others othera wm 1 reb teb cewa dewa Vie V slama worsley Jefre J emmerson efferson hanaley He naley cari gari owen and john Ha nicholas bet set bouttu the ath of jany nary uary to that longi cherished desired desire the distance boog log about miles aul most moat of it r f through brough a heavy pine and oak for pst est eskwith with about 12 Inches of snow at camp but on reaching the bum hum t 14 alt kift between mid and white 9 kiver river aver we found 14 inches some bome q I abiog I 1 never expected to bee see ie ta this country on fe reaching aching bro 1 t oen den iter lter 1 ter oer vm fillets Fol PoU lets eUSi two or three files lles lies iles over the the snow as coming down sweetly bwee Usand and aud he ho aried fed led to prevail on us to ato alo until e le ape storm was over but all of ua us ling ging wing ing used to the snows of the wa 4 dritch mountains we did not fear 8 liose hose of the 4 after obtaining all the informs 4 lon ion on we could of the road being 1 intire tuttle strangers to the country yves iva pulled on to camp apache a dise dial tance of 25 miles here there was Bs arcely any snow camp apache el t 19 Is a beautiful fort and does credit to ah iho government it represents but var bar disappointment of the country ovas great il it being located on a tveite tV hIte atner river ve had expected to fig bina bind fina a large laige ap open en plain but instead ie e pit was a dee deep deed p calion canon with high men 4 brecky mountains on elther either bide felde ES rith stith s but very little bottom land i lind end the great wonder with witti me is j low the troops ever found thein their tay lay ay into this hole if there had b ben een 11 snow on the tha ground as in our tra trpe 1 I 1 am sure they never co could uld inave found that place ri V cafter leaving camp we found the i as rough and moun y finona alever as ever and I 1 thought if y id la was the country where the d di j robbers were hid up in ii idio idie caves and dens of thebe theae moun ui ut when the armies subdue them forth for their eln eJr e greda preda tlona tiona committed on them tyas iya dwa sno no wonder the robbers I 1 beat eat c d sm in and drove them back baek home 0 it there was ever a country in world that a band of robbers fald eald id have the advantage otan of an a 14 my y of soldiers this north ot of the lab iab the thib place reither leither I 1 Is sany any lot rot onder order to me now why the apa toi dhe khe indians were BO so hard forthe fon for the 07 emment to conquer I 1 do not j hinkin was their great muscular p strength or a abundant skill in war ff vt atthe the country they pom pon possessed essed agh AA valley valleys some 45 milea miles from limp wab waa the first decent country M re taw after leaving camp this ia willey alley was bom some e 80 30 miles long by fj t taska wid wide e with good plow land 0 ww stream of water in the rah that drained the valley la in sik nik aaa oi found ash byca lai lal nore aanA and blaek black cherry trees but but bul fery very scrubby compared with those r if it IJ illinois still it caused my mind cc 0 revert back to iny ray boyish days iid nd wish that thebe theae were loaded ill pit ic nth rith the precious fruit that I 1 let lie light see how quick I 1 could still the tha tree on leaving this 0 alley we WO climbed another low ril rel of from which we had a fall t heir dew of the gila valley a bome some 12 or oo iott ir a mites miles distant and all the way yit kit ven hill an and d most of the way k y here our disappoint sat sot was waa aa as great treat aa as at camp J S fitl fiti defor for we e lad had expected to bee eee dij I 1 the south the hundred mile des but we could see nothing beit od idi the river but with oot I 1 pa Os covered with snow enow halt hall way vay ite base babe which were the the first eok enk 19 i 1 aw that reminded us of 0 the i batch mountains east of provo lit h Pe december cember although it was a non uon when ghen we gained this summit ia das waa was after dark before we al 0 T o river liver the curiosities that thatah atto acted our out atter attention tion were perhaps j e cause the different species of J y pear a are r 0 truly grand the tc bitus remind s one at first t sight of a aa gf christmas rist mas tree tied lull of ve led SaUsage sausages sj but on attempt attempting in 9 laek aek lack it ono one finds his mist mistake then the flat or palm leaf which grows bigger round than your hat and as flat as your hand on the edge of this a small stem will start out and on that thata tern stem another leaf andtius and thus they continue for rods the cane apello grows slim like a cane stalk and would make a good anglin angling grod rod by the briars oft for it is more like liko wood than anhof the others the Josh Is the tho grandest of all it is a foot through generally at the ground some six or seven feet high four or five other branches start out on all sides of aldrun ana and run parallel with the main trunk for thirty or forty feet very blue at the top and bulgin bulging 99 like a barrel in the thu middle and ridged like a washboard rundin running 9 lengthways of the tree on the ridges are brickers pr ickers the creases are smooth if they could only obtain one forthe for the salt lake museum it would attract as many visitors ai as the sea lions the gila river riven at this point is a nice even smooth running stream about the eize of bear river in ueail utah with a bottom of one mile wide which grow wider up the stream and narrower down As far as we could see there was plenty of indians camped on this river it being on the reservation camp thomas some fifteen fiats en or twenty mues mi es above situated on the south side has a lul lui location but in improvements can hold no comparison with camp apache apaches for here the soldiers live in tents or miserable log or adobe huts with dirt roofs one half mile a bovo above camp is the line of the reservation then we come to the farm houses housed of both americans and spaniards p 1 I d twenty five tive milts above camp thomas is the town sud BUO of bafford safford which la Is very thinly settled but a nice locality for a large city here we found two brothers by the name of rigis biggs nephews to dr john riggs of Provo and one old oid nauvoo miller and nephew to our late lute uncle stephen markham of spanish fork Utah who took great pains in et showing howing us round int introducing KO us thither to tc ither their friends showing 3 land laud which was unoccupied and seemed never to tire in telling of facilities of the country and seemed very anxious we should come and settle with them the bottoms here are two and a half miles then a rise on the south some two slopes back to the mountain fo for bight or ten miles on the north the bench is high and steeper probably yards then slopes to mountain e or vax vak miles on this bench facing to the south is the ruins of the largest city I 1 have feenin seen in this country they are five miles long iong up and down the river by two and a halt half wide the foundation walls plain to be traced in the upper edge of the ruins are several small springs from which the city was wits supplied with water for culinary purposes no doubt by the Lani allness of the rooms and abed the narrowness of the streets or aisles it must have contained more inhabitants than salt lake city at the present time at the foot of this bench are traces of a 9 large canal some 15 or 20 feet wide which covered all the bottom land which in my judgment is not sufficient to support ao so large a population pu lation of agriculturalists it must have been a manufacturing and commercial city there is no timber on thia this river but scrubby cottonwood aud me saw timber being some 80 30 miles distant water is poor weather was cold enough to freeze water set out in a bucket a quarter of an inch but not in the river and mr markhan thought it was terribly cold while we thought it was terribly warm especially through the day on the last of january we returned satisfied with the country and some dissatisfied with kind regards to all I 1 remain your brother and coworker in the latter day gospel josepn JOSEPH CLUFF 0 overheard in a horse car last week well wells miss bliss cary came to our oar city once and went to the church state street where she I 1 knew the organist he asked her to sing and she consented on condition that he be would not tell who she was bhe she sang through the entire morning service and at the close the organist said to the director a critic of great local reputation how ghow did youline you like ilke that ladys ladya Bi nging singing ohl oh said the critic she has quite a fair voice if it were cultivated bhe she would make a very good binger singer I 1 think miss cary gary still survives A doctor to his son johnny wouldn t you like to be a doctor dector doc doo tor toi no father why not my son awby why father I 1 even kill hill a fly |
