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Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 195 CHAPTER XXX. Another Trip to Uintah Agency Confidence of the Indians My Return to Salt Lake City Call on Secretary Delano G. W. Dodge Visits the Indians as a Peace Commissioner Speech of Chief Douglas Treaty with the Grass Valley Indians. ON MY arrival in Salt Lake City and after disposing of my furs and skins, I made arrangements for the money to pay the trader, George Basor, for his stock of buckskins, amounting to some two thousand dollars. The arrangement was to close the bargain by a certain date, provided the purchase was made. I found the dog so useful in pulling a sled that I determined to get hold of some more large dogs and train them. To do this I would be delayed a few days ; so I got David Boyce, who had just come in with me, to take Ring, the old dog, with a sled load of one hundred and fifty pounds, and a $ 2000.00 check and make the trip alone. Boyce, traveling on Norwegian snow- runners, made the trip through in good time. This trip of Boyce's I consider one of the most heroic of any, as he traveled alone one hundred and fifty miles, passing over twenty feet of snow, with no one but the faithful dog for com-pany. On getting my dogs, four in number, trained with sleds for each, I took my son Wiley, thirteen years of of age, and started again for Uintah, taking about four hundred pounds of goods for the Indians. I was careful to take a good supply of provisions on this trip. I hired a young man from Heber City, by the name of Hickins, to go with us. We made good time over the mount-ains. Our dogs behaved tolerably well, as I had trained them before starting. |
