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Show -1068- 6 Mar 1905 Monday Attended to stock, Grubbed some brush then went to lucerne field and let JosP Tietjen have 20 bqles hay for $18 00 Fed the horses hay in lucerne field p Came home, read News Then grubbed brush p wrote in evening p Rained a some in Des little todayp Wash full of water at pOint-head of lucerne field and allover the flat p Attended to stock, Tried to shut off water, run"", 7 Tuesday ning from Box canton from running in 20 acre pfece Went to lu cerne field and fed horses hay there Grubbed some brush p Fredelle working on ditch all dayp 8 Wednesday Attended to stock Went with team to lucerne fieldp SpCpYoung also came with his team and got 20 bales hay of me to pay 17 35 for it out of drill work" I loaded up with 19 bales, looked at wash, water had gone down somep Fed horses in field some hay p Came home and unloaded, In afternoon fixed up j,n shed for horses, putting in plank for them to- stand onp Freddie .... D o p p - - ... , p - grubbing brush in forenoon and helping Tietjen in afternoon, putting in windows in his housep 9 Thursday Some frost this morningp I worked on the ditch in forenoon with team scraping, TpJ pMcNiel and SpC"Young also worked therep About noon we got word that there had been a slide or cave off in dam and it was likely to break at any time Fred had been helping Tietjen in morning .putting in windowsp About 2 pp - p him and Tietjen came up to lucerne field where we were stopped for dinner and it was decided to some of Us to go up horseback to work and save it if we could and others come with team bedding &cp Some 4 of us started up and had only gone a little ways when we met a big wall of water come down, Hurried back Bro, Tietjen to look after his folks and others of us taking horses and stock out of fields Looked around and water spread all over the flat. came into the lucerne fieldj but the main force of water going down the Chapmans place and to Station and looked -like it washed some of railroad awey l> Brought all of horses home and fed 5 of them, 10 Friday Attended stock, chopped wood, pumped water Wrote some and read!!> About 10 apmp got on horse Prince and rode to up lucerne field and looked around to see what damage flood had done, found it had done no material damage; had not wet hay any Rode up along ditch found ,-.it not damaged much, Rode up to mouth of caruon, it was washed clean and timber and brush strewn out on land, some very large j all along but not so much below flume Came home , Fred out with SoCoYoung & TpJ o McNiel cleaning mp e - , 0 0 out wash my forty by slaughter washed awaYe house, all fence on north and east side of |
