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Frontier Guardian , 16 Dec. 1852, 2.

From the Emigrants Guide and Directory.

COUNCIL BLUFFS CITY, IOWA,
December 15, 1852.

SIRS : Knowing you to have crossed the Plains a number of times, and believing you to be capable in your judgments, we wish you to state the result of your experience in regard to the merits of the routes on either side of the Platte river. Yours, &c,,

CLARK & FORD.
To J. E JOHNSON, and others.

COUNCIL BLUFFS CITY, IOWA,
December 15, 1852.

Editors Council Bluffs City Ditectory and Emigrants Guide--

SIRS . In our opinion, the North side of the Platte river, on most accounts, is by far the most easy, natural and preferable route. The reasons are these : The grass and wood are more abundant, the game more plentiful, there is less low, swampy land and sloughs, the health is much better, the direction less devious and more direct, and the large stereams less difficult to cross, as there is good bridges and ferries on the North side.

We have a number of times traveled these routes, and speak from experience.

J. E. JOHNSON.,
DANIEL MILLER,
GEO. P. DIKES,
ALLEN COMPTON.