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Show -326At the Done some chores untill breakrast 10 April Tuesday womens words about into work. Lot table" Lot Smith and H.R"Burk got Smith proposing that the women do the baking of bread &c and Burk opposed it, that it was to hard work &cG I told them I regretted to see this" jangling and ill feeling and said I would sooner live than be in a quarrel with others Hitched up 2 rules, 2 to - myself , , and with Alva Porter, Mortensen, 5 cows. 4 calves 1 for the new place 50 miles south started rooster 1 & bull, 6 hens and got some flour In the mill at in the mountaine; Stopped in and stalled a ditch pulling back tipped over, got driving-into and drove to Powells 15 Loaded break" not" but" didup anythingG to fix of load most and unloaded miles" up a wooden axel that had Peter oxen Ii) - " Tied up our calves sprung by wedging it. Slept at Powell cabin. and hobbled mules. Took breakfast then drove into the creek 11 Wednesday called "Chevelons Fork" or the Slotlghi where we stalled and had to pack most of our load out. Loaded up but could not pull it up the - Took 3 sacks flour 1 of corn and 1 of salt back on mules to Powells cabin and left it then drove along all right i watered on the rocks, 7 miles, drove 2 miles and made a" dry" campo Tied up hill our t> COWS". Thursday" _" Drove" on, nconed before" coming into' open drove" on till near sundown when our" oxen' became very then "valley" tired· and we made a dry camp-,' our animals being very dry Traveled 18· miles through thick cedars except 4 miles through open val.Iey, 13 Friday;,.' Still cold and windYe Drove on nooned, and about reached St'.Joseph folks claim 14 miles.. Perna Just as we arrived while watering our animals it came down the canion quite a hurricane of a snowstorm» but it did not last Long, Cold windy 12 e 4 rugnt Took supper with H.Nielsone There are 4 families, Shelly Heward & J Scarlet of StoJosepho We put up two log cabdns 14 Saturday Got up animals very cold nommg Took break fast with J oScarletl'l Drove up the creek or canion 5 miles where we found L.M.Savage at work with horse team clearing some, camped, turned our animals out i took dinner then us four with horse team went to work and built a pen for our calves and cows , so as to secure some of the milk. Turned calves out to feed in the night and cows in the day" Cold evening, froze quite hard, Got some breakfast ready while the other boys 15 Sunday milked cows Went and looked over the country, walked two miles up the canion to Adams Whiting & Richardsons Ranch and stopped with them some time taking dinner there, walked with two of them 1/2 mile over a ridge to the fork they are farming upon. then came down , o , - 0 - Ii) two miles to camp and cooked supper. This is a narrow valley 1/8 |
