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IMMIGRATION MOVEMENTS.

 

For several days past the city has presented a very lively, stirring appearance, as teams have been almost constantly passing through the streets, arriving from the country, and passing out to their several places of rendezvous, preparatory to organizing the companies, consisting of about fifty wagons each under their respective captain, as previously arranged, and which, as soon as the organization shall be competed, will move off in order, one company after another, for Florence, Nebraska Territory, for the purpose of bringing the poor Saints across the plains who are immigrating to the Valleys of the Mountains the present summer.

 

The whole number of teams designed for that service this year was over five hundred, but we are not in possession of the requisite information to enable us to state definitely how many have been fitted up, and are, or will soon be in motion for the Missouri river in compliance with the requisition, but we believe that they will exceed the number called for and deemed necessary for the immigration.

The Captains of the companies are, John W. Woolley, John Murdock, Horton D. Haight, Peter Nebeker, William B. Preston, Thomas Ricks, Rosel Hyde, John F. Sanders, S. D. White and D. D. McArthur.

Most of the teams which we have seen have been good ones principally composed of young, thrifty cattle, in good order, well adapted for the journey. The wagons also are of a superior kind and the entire outfit, so far as we have seen and heard from every quarter, has been rendered complete by the Bishops, who have had the superintendency of the whole matter. Bishop Hunter and his counselors state unequivocally, that the teams, wagons and every thing provided for the trip, are decidedly better than those sent last year, and that the outfitting arrangements have been attended with less difficulty and expense than heretofore, indicating that the gathering of the poor is not an impoverishing operation.

Some of the teams from the north went up the Weber river, and many from the south went by way of the Timpanogos. The companies will all be organized and inspected before they take up the line of march-a report of which we expect to receive in time for next issue.