Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1855-10-09

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ratheriaihe1c money loving lcisisans seeald cd
withstand,odNoth wassheard of pothipg,ssl
was talked,cefsbat ahee eghtserpgo bapdssef7ao
the valley Of the Sacramento. Thousands ed
were daily preparing tolsaEs their homes
in the States. 40 seek their fortunes i6l, l,bsT
glorious R Darddo of tire West. hsrdEr OF,
once thinking,of heIdificul6es tofbe over -sd'r
ceppeion thss route, or the dangers in sfropm a
tier ifesisda M t1sd 81 ran naivos rsd,oah
'W During the yearSls4s, and dila49j itho,sids
sapds left their homes in the "fever ef iSEvol
Element" = and 5afer hsyiRgg past sIpany
dangers, and experienced many Difficulties,
at last found themselves vsst q .6s Sierra
Nevada where each eHpeetsd y rear. 4 s,"' :"
rich reward tor hiysn his Journey a. BIT Riais''s
ncsde,s 10 ssy. that many any ld tailed iniuc Sai ?.
.spd were breed q return bone me, NTH Il bsre, b
ssisisss s$'s,g ~ & Z.
though S many ;'sy sg.s S,sI sI.sppss,ss Sc 81 ,s'a.
in their expectations d collecting ,ioytpns !"
in . few weeks. yet The excitsmept in the
States did not abste, and IA the Spring u " -
1850, the "feyer.", as il was called, ragedy
in . high degree. Many wagons were stteS
out, with provisions, clothing. and other
useful articles, for the overland. rout. y
while goOdly number of emigrants put %. !, :
sy he water S r0qtfa Sy yt shs way yia Il SceP'
d But rlp,n am promising a,gh hst Which he s''a
reader, perhaps, is as well acquainted as
myself. It viii, then, be sufficient to, say u,
that ! am one Of the thousands that tras.
sled the overland route to Californis, IN" IN th.
Spring and Summer, Of 1880 TO give
history Of The scenes and incidents that oe..
CURED during, our journey toIand from this
land Of gold, is the object, 4 present, q
my scribbling, This, perhaps, may not be
80 very interesting to those who have tray.,
eled the route; still if they, viii take The
trouble to read il, they will find depicted
many scenes and adventures with which
the trip hss, made them indeed. familiar. .
TO those who have never crossed The plains,
l hope to be sufficiently interesting to &C. e..1'
cure at least a psyasd, Of what intend
to write. 80 ~ w.. - -. =
During the whole of our journey % aud aud
from California, I never failed to take notes
On everything that thought would interest
those who had never Witnessed them, and,
in my leisure hours, to write them in
book. which kept. in the form a journal.
This journal, ] now intend to transcribe, o.
and though the people are becoming some
what acquainted with the route, still, hope
to make it sufficiently interesting to merit
publication. aF aao' $0il91rs"p ss@ haa
The company with which I started from
St, Joseph, consisted Of thiry-two men.
Twenty Of these wsre from my own county
and State, viz: Meigs county. Ohio. The
names of the Meigs county men, are as fol-
lows: DR.. Harrison Westtall, John Syl-
vester, John Wilson, John Smith, John
Beatty, David Wilson. Daniel Simpson"
iobediah Jones, Jacob Rice, Hamilton Price,
Warren Percy, Washington Price. Perry
Riggs, Jackson Riggs, William Anderson,
Daniel Marsh, John Brown, Warren Whit
more, Ephriam Fray and WIN. W. Hubben,
This company afforded one wagon g ev-e
cry Eve men; each wagon being loaded
with provisions sufficient to last the owners
Ito the mines, together with clothing and
mining. implements, such as picks and
spadesg Besides these. the greater num-r
| Der Of US carried guns to Hill game and to-
defend ourselves from the attacks Of the
Indians, Also many were armed with, re-
volvers, bowie-kniyes, and some carried
regular built swords. v lBut al this showOtb
arms was unnecessarysas we afterwards
found, there being but few IRdisnstS'
trouble Us, and little n no game u hunt
HoweyerI would noticonyey the idea that
we were entirely ranmolestedO Oaor that wel
found the route entirely desttute Of game.
as ny journal viii show, y a,p'".s s,a, Ig ~
q Getting everything in readiness kft,
ST., ] Joseph ON the eth day y'of May. $780,
and Travelled . distance Of six miless through
we'll tinbered country to Z plase called
the Bluffs. Here we encamped for the,