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Show -720- crossing of creek at rocky ford and canoed for night0 Drove tv Zuni breakfasted and 23 Mar 1897 Tuesday con versed with DDDGrahaml' Drove home a.rr v1ng at 3,,30 p.m, UIl""l loaded and help attend to stock 1) cow one h m had calf today, & cow red » one last Friday Very co d at night 24 Wednesday Attended to st.ock, Was at home nearly all day did not feel well in body, In evening felt better am around in town some, attending to sone business" 25 Thursdey Attended to stock, Wrote some letters Hauled out a load of manure In afternoon tried to get a sulky plow fixed up belonging to John Tp in shape to worki that! could try Lt Plowed with hard plow in arcemoon, Got 121 # 128# carrots and 81# beets read;y in sack to sell to J cabbage .BoAahel'Ort at l¢ per lb Freddie helped me after school Fed stcck, 26 Friday Sent letter to Mar:! Ellen» EpA&Tletjen, SpWaite. J &Blackp Attended to & feeding watering etcck, Tried John T. sulky plow in forenoon but it did not suit Ire for the price he wants In arternoon plowed with hand plow on ten, Freddie plowed after school and J! fed stock, Read in evening, 27 Saturday Attended to stock In the rooming both Fred & I plowed with 2 teams on tenp In Fred plowed with 1 team and I scraped out the ditch onafternoon, ten with 1 team, in evening fed Took a bathp Drove to - 0 - -9 p , p Q c;> 28 Sunday Attended to atock, Got ready at 10 a.m, attemed SpSp At 2 p.rn, attended neetingJ) where W.H,Bon:l, ll'\Yself and S.,E, Lewis were the - speakers After neet ing went up to the reservoir and worked there, making a waste ditch to let out surplus water. There were about 8 men and 4 teams A leak was growing larger where culvert in, Came home late At 0 & 11 p.m, was called up by parties reporting that water in leak was was low down in increasing, but as it the water. knew of no way we could stop it p At 4 a.m, word cane that water had broke flooding the lower part of town, All ofthrough and reservoir gone, J oBoAshcrofts 3 places carried away all his corrals and Gallaghers stables & corrals and stables, except his barn, M, swept fence wash and doing much damage, but no lives lost away. bridge across sore chickens , j pigs & calves drowned, WoHoBond with all his family cane up to my places fearing the water might come to their houses .. but it soon receded back again, , to 29 Monday - stock, Went up Before day was arourd viewing damage Attended to reservofrand saw the Wh out most of dam gone) culbert all gone, and will be mien worse than to make a new dam somewhere else Came hom: got breakrast Went back with Freddie and got a lot of carp washed out of reservoir. fish, I) |
