Show I i- i L W t CROP s OF OP THIS THE COUNTRY MU COUNTRY MUI D JjR R Q tag y BY COWBOYS COWBoys EtI COMMENCED 3 f DURANGO DuBAN Ou Cato o J July ti M 1885 Deseret News lw L t I I left Bluff City San fir in Utah on the The bers o my rny fm fam ID Uy icy who are there aJ add d the Saints at Bluff oft were then all well and tee pI frosi J pros peels peets for crops cros were good The The fruit hat little t there er i ia is also looks v very promising It pis a fine oo country f for r fruit and stock raising I J visited visited the th Saints paints at BURNHAM New Me Mexico a little ward situated on the San Juan River some sixty slaty lilies hadia from this place plate last Sunday and had hada hada a goad good time time- if its prospects are good 00 1 at tf 6 WO gG Ie tei I bers bens to cont contend nd with the labor attend attend- attend ing ingall ll nef v settlements I came by the way of Lt L Plata River a stream WhICh runs into the ban an Ju Juan n Rivet Rivets just above Burnham Here I found a a few families of Saints located about on some some bottom lands about six miles from Farmington down awn the river Th They y too need help to hold the situation Thirty families can find homes here and in one of the finest climates on the earth W We are in is the midst of an an n I INDIAN OUTBREAK Some cowboys murdered a quiet peacEable old Indian and his family while out bunting There has been one white man killed and his wife wound wound- wounded wounded ed The cowboys have hav brought on the trouble and now want the question settled as to whether they are to leave or the Indians I shall set out on my return to north north- northern northern northern ern Utah as soon as I get et back to Bluff City I hope by the Yours Yours as ever F A HAMMON |