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Show 106 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS now called Tintic Valley. The name of the place originated with this expedition, said valley being until that time unexplored by white men. We learn-ed that the Indians had taken a southwesterly di-rection and as we journeyed on we had to encounter deep snow and exceedingly cold weather. Frequent-ly we saw cattle standing up, braced in the snow, frozen quite stiff. In this locality we expected to get our supply of food on our return provided we did not overtake the Indians. We pushed forward as fast as we could, and as we came on their camping places we could learn how fast we were gaining ground on them. We made three of their days travel in one day. The third day we saw their camp fire smoke, but we did not like the location, as it seemed like we were marching right into the fortification of the savages. Passing a heavy body of cedars, we found ourselves on the edge of the great desert, where we were pleased to discover some stock and we picked out the best beef from seventy- five head, having had nothing to eat that morning. Our Indian guide informing us that it was about six miles to the Sevier River, orders were given to march thither to water our stock. There was no trail to follow the Indians having scattered in every direction. Our horses had been without water since we left the Utah Lake. We camped on Sevier river that night. Early next morning we found thirty head of horses, but no In-dians. We then traveled up the river in a northeast-erly direction and came out at Nephi. The inhabi-tants rallied to a point on the north side of the herd to save the cattle. There being a raise of land in-tervening between us, the one party could not see the other for a little while. The next time they saw us |