I received your letter
some time ago but we were think-
ing of taking a trip to Green
River so I thought I would wait
and tell you about it thare was
just Mr & Mrs Lyon's and ourselves
we started bright and early got
thare before noon called at a
Ranch where they k keep goats
to milk ran about thirty young
kids. we camped about a while
below Ashley. Oh the River was
just grand in a good many
places overflowing its banks.
they said it is a quarter of a mile
wide and scarecly a ripple on it
except when a tree would come
sailing above and turn the trees
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the grass and the hole country was
like a charm we slept on the
ground in the open air in the
morning the men went to a house
got a large bucket of fresh milk
we did not cattch a fish set seven
hooks at mouth of Ashleys and
two more beautiful days you never
saw the sun shone warm and pleas
ant with a cool breeze from the
river started home about three oclock
arrived save and well. Henry will
finish putting in his crop next
week which amounts to fifty acres
of wheat and oats then he has got
his corn and other things to
plant. spring has been rather
late afor gardens good for grain
we have had so much rain
I have had towo cards from abroad
have not writen do not know where
to adress his letters. w how long
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is Bell Moses going to stay? tell
her she had better come to Ashley
it cant be beat if money is a
scarce artical my body has some
kind of cloths though shoes are
getting to be quite a novelty
the roads have been unpassable
for so long the Mail company
brought in a few papers last
week for the first time since
febuary we have not been able
to get lumber to finish our house
as the saw mill is still under
snow. President Hatch wants
the Ashley then to save the
Ducshane bridge Bishop Hatch
says to save it they will have to
haull it up on the hill do you
think you will get out this summer?
it is thout Strawbury will not be crossed
till August I wantt to write a few lines
^to Clara^ with kind Rembrances to all as ever
your afectionate daughter Nellie Woodruff
I want to
ask another favor and not only
one but I expect I will always
be bothering you with something
will you please see if Julia
or A Aunt Tishia has got a
little coat and knee pant ^[patries]^ that
you can cant and send as send
^me^ as convienent & if you do can
ont let me know so I can send
for a few things which you could
bring me I could get them throu-
gh the mail which I will have
to do if no other way. Dora may
come home and stay all winter
her helth is very poor. Willie
has kissed the letter a dozzen
times Henry is waiting for him
by by your loving daughter