| Show THE OVERLAND MAIL aletter f letter no 2 1 calr LAYER LAKE CITY july 10 life overland mail line loe was a dan all 0 he ioD to the occupation cupat lane rone 00 of winter and storme sod and deep snows extreme cold weather the raging stame I 1 in D the he spring irregular and ana improper ia proper deprived of comfortable beat and natural rest reel for jusys at a uwe tittle I 1 be bae we seen riders and drivers with their finger end a burst open and covered fleT cred with running sod anil their knees and black anti and blue and frum pu pou pounding tiding anem to keep twin freezing in the te winter of 0 1856 7 to death the at froze A passenger at gle mountain it io 1859 60 west an the rosa was waa brozen at cach open bof veve cave ao that be was a cripple miller had his hie feet feel tot sut i me I 1 fe joun jotin badly that thai both efton so BO amputated and in july bj bad to lobe be 1869 at strawberry straw berry creek in abdo oi 01 uses south pass of sleet wm win aadson bad oue OLIO side of his hie body so frozen it bad to io be out ft banow enow and gov erfil bead ot of mule per labed at ai the same aade time la in the spring and early arly summer eummer the high the lorde fords it if any 6 were sod a treacherous in 1862 lom goujon slid and the coach team learn were M R owns in boor bear rivers river and a short a coach acoach to team am was drowsed e before the boull just I 1 iu its a swollen gulch the winter the channels ot the ms me would be ba open and it was waa like lik ftak tog a ravine witt with perpendicular attempt to pass paea them and iko buik to go coach would be left in the OA agbe cunos and thi the team taken for zand ar aad lood leed miles way away and for help to sod out the ice these in the spring and be ding of ummer summer were n out irla banke the country butte batte to go butte and one or two in will servo to illustrate the biffl tev and danger in pausing passing these theae at that season of the year in ii 0 1862 john job a bu burnett taboo bai baasi worley myself and boardman Board mao bo ked for carson canon aby as passenger pa enger sod and although no brila were being carried at the time started out to take boardman kuesis lake city and when we came IV t yellow in its ite it was waa u out the monsel hannel ai B torrent ot 01 course IF had to croiss it sui SU i dobson strip daf mounted grey lincy so an animal AW adae auae am aa truth itself and with a cord itt big teeth attached to a rope and the teer r end of the rope fastened to the he be plunged in sod and swam the atone soto pulled the rope repe over with OW bord slid and with the aid of the mxie the team over with the aps burnett the driver riding the near wheeler dobson with the rope to mex crossed od the rope was fastened io 10 k fab pole and dobson returning to ibe am aam asbe coson was waa eased into the bonnel and pulled over boardman been arm joshed to the hind OO faud in ral the opposite bank low boot 00 with boardman was wa clug rg 00 worley and I 1 went 0 tream and stripped with our toab go as fastened to our heads beads iia and fid dronek droned a snow now dritsan d af attoma At produced frum from the 1 g curron current half ball arosen sloth and blooms of toe joe buffeting our naked bedits I 1 never want to experience it again boardman never forgave worley for fastening him bim to the hind bind boot instead of the front for it if the team altered or failed to raise the coach out of the channel he be would have surely drownda drow neu nea it was board mand first essay at life in the wild and woolly west habad H bad just been belij beld up by the indians ana some of his ble party wo woun untied aeJ and I 1 manifested some sym ta toy for him io in rei re urn for which tie ne have gave me an order ou on the indians for his bis cloth a revolver ard toilet set they had haa robbed him of I 1 respected his hirs simplicity and accepted the order out learning afterwards that the abe young who got 90 his hie toilet set eel bad set get up a barber and dentistry shop agop in his bie village I 1 was loath loata to deprive the indians indiana of these civilizing influences sod did not present the order on soother another occasion dobson exhibit eu ej the stuff of which w he be Is made in I 1 ri may 1862 we were returning the stock to a portion of the road from which we had bad moved it on account accorn t 0 ludian depredations we came to hama frk F rk where was collected a large body of meu and teams on their way east to essiet the mormon immigration the stream was fearfully swollen and bromley the agent of the overland arranged with the men to assist us in return for our help belp 81 8 1 wagon boxes were to supply the place of boats some gome beame were gotten across ropes attached to each end and of the improvised boats and loaded with wita the baggage and supplies this th Is sea saw ferry apparatus was set I 1 lu u motion nio tion the boats being drawn across toy by the teams attached to the he ropes and then pulled palled to dry land ateer afier the baggage and supplies were over the ibe coaches and wagons were taken over in abe same manner then came the foreleg forcing over of the oxen horses horse and mules la in driving the matt mall animals into the stream it was leoee sary for several of us to gather some mom 0 ot of toe most refractory and timid ones by the tails and go this is more sale than riding on their backs over with them la in struggling the current some of the animals became excited and one large mule in attempting to climb onto dobson truck struck himwich him with its forefeet fore teet forcing him bim and narrowly escaping drowning no doubt has often speculated woo would be on big beat had that been his bis end on this occasion son and others were in wo the water during daylight for some three days day the fare on the road except near we towns and trading posts pose was of the coarsest klud kind consisting of sal aratus broad bread bastio rice dried apples old style ben holiday la chicken and occasionally 8 same me of bera berala bend la turkey ben Holi holiday dayla chicken though bough the sacks containing it were branded B V its pedigree was supposed to date rom the mexican war sud aud perhaps it was incubated about the time pt of that interesting event la in our national his tory it consisted of large flabby blubbery slabs of what had bad once been bacon it was full fall ot of holes boles end and won was diagnosed by the medical faculty ot of the company as an enlargement ot of me pores in the por olnes bids bide attended atten dool with gangrene and for for ion it was up to the bt beat specimens of the bandy work or of st R allx and the way time had bad worked the ful a yellow green blue and purple into it would woold eclipse a grisim or make an aa imitator or of onyx or jasper despair and abandon his bis art it nail haa lain oni on wharfs been stowed in commissary build logs been used as ballast for steam steamboats boate it had been condemned and re purchased by the government a scores ot of times it had bad at t c own so many times and u ider euca favorable conditions that it was stuck stack aull i a 11 of riall rall the rust from which gave it an additional zest sent it had been across the plains in those sy symmetrical metrical vehicles ot of rui bus sell majors waddle it had been used for breastworks and lari targets jetti in sham battles at fort Crittenden it was condemned and bouget at a f of a cent per pound and sent out to the boys with special eions to be sparing with it to reserve it for important and aad deterred deferred occasions such as when the paymaster citer was seeking siz signatures natures to ane payroll or when the were passing over the be road ben holiday turkey was waa those por tans of the article last nad escaped the disease above and ADd when any or of this was discovered were sent cut to tj we station above and below and with a big brown a boig dun duff slum alum guldon gullion gul llon shu and a few slabs of the chicken mixed with some borne green cottonwood cotton wood the boys would have a cheerful time and a delicious weal meal WILLIAM P APPLEBY |
