transcript-for-emigration-deseret-news-29-june-1859-132

<p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">EMIGRATION.—We learn from the Council Bluffs Press that there were about thirteen hundred emigrants at Florence on the last of May, enroute for Utah from different parts of the world; some two hundred and fifty of them were coming over the plains with hand carts, of which the company had sixty, with iron axletrees.</p>



<p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Gen. Eldredge had 150 splendid Chicago and St. Louis wagons there loaded with merchandize and various kinds of machinery for this city, each wagon having about 2500 lbs. of freight; in the aggregate nearly two hundred tons.</p>

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