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CAPT. A. O. SMOOT'S COMPANY.
TEN MILES EAST OF LARAMIE,
May 19, 1856.

EDITOR DESERET NEWS—
We have just met the mail, in company with which was Elder Smith from South Africa, in good health and spirits. We arrived at Laramie yesterday about noon; obtained a supply of provisions from the post by paying 15 3/4 cts. for bacon, flour and pilot bread. The commander, Colonel Huffman, treated us kindly, and all parties about the Fort showed us marked respect.

On the fourth of May the snow fell at this Fort two feet deep, since which the ground has been bare only about one week. The weather for the last two days has been excessively hot, a change the more severely felt, as the day before yesterday we were riding over snow banks.

All of the camp are enjoying excellent health. I have rode for the past week all the time on horseback, a considerable feat for a man weighing two hundred and fifty pounds.

Grass for the animals has been plenty, and they begin to show the effects of it. We were informed at the Fort that the Sioux are all at peace; the Cheyenes want to make peace.
GEO. A. SMITH.