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Show --- ~------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 16 · - When we came to the Sweet-water, as I was walking along in front of my team they suddenly a stampede carry ing me along between the %1111 two head steers. For a tii:n e I did not know what to do but at last jumped quickly to the side and as al l the teams in the company were in the same spirit as mine I was saved from a horrible death. Our captain proved himself a genuine crank and many of the company deserted him so before we reached our destination we were well broken up. We arrived in Salt Lake City September 9, 1852, having travelled since the lOth of June, and on seeing the goal I took my hat off and shouted "hurrah for Salt Lake !" nMy wife look£rl curiously and asked "where, where is the city?" I r e plied, "don't you see that little white house on the hill?" We camped on Mill Creek with our stock and I found a room in Mr. Web b 's house in the ninth ward and employment on the rock well around the temple. In course of ti me I laid three corner stones out of the four of the wall. Br. Raleigh of the nineteenth ward was my foreman on this labor from begining to end. On the following Sunday after arriving I attended a meeting in the old tabernacle and listened to . a sermon on Celest%ial marriage by Orson Pratt. The f irst time I had heard officially of the new doctrine. As soon as frost set in work closed down and the wint e r was rather severe. I exchanged my stock for a stove, shoes, and etc. One was lost or stolen and a cow which I subsequently took to the Salmon River was stolen by Indians. On the 14th of February 1853 the ground for the temple was broken by the Presidency, Young, Kimball & Richards at which I as present and every able bodied man worked hard that winter to dig out the grolind and quarry the rock for the found at ion ready to be laid in April. This foundation was laid 17 feet deep on the |
