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As we go to press, this evening, the advance of the ox train from Utah has arrived, the train is expected down tomorrow morning.

The party is composed of some seventy-five men and three women, with thirty-three wagons, and some two hundred and fifty head of oxen and ten of horses and mules: J[oseph].W. Young, Captain; J[ohn]. W[ickersham]. Wooley, Captain of the Guard and M[ilford].B[ard]. Shipp, Clerk.

The company have been enroute since the 27^th of April; no sickness or accident of note, and stock in fine order.---They expect to be in Florence by the 1^st proximo.

Found good grass and water the whole distance, fine roads and pleasant weather and game plenty. The party had some rare sport, fishing in the Platte, capturing some large catfish.