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Show -327mile wide on an running north and south generallY5 slopping to the north, timber (pine & cottonwood in the bottom) with a small creek which runs dry about two miles below the head during' the dry' season The surrounding country is very rugged and rough covered thickly with long leaved pine» some juniper and oak; middling good feed in most par-ts On the whole it does not' suit· me, being to much closed ino The land is rich on the bottomll 16 Monday Cooked bread for breakfast and cooked dinner and suppero Cut up potatoes for seed with Alva & Peter while Savage' was clearing off land Done the COOking 0 Cleared off wood from ground 17 Tuesday in the morntng, In afternoon, hunted for a rule and looked over the" countr-y, Bead and wrote some; vJindy every day with frosty of verage a e , - <:> . - ntghta; . 18- April vlednesday Done the cooking; clearing ground and grubbed out stumps Done the cooking, Tried to get LoMQSavage to do 19 Thursday - - sorne-plowing-& making the'plowworki but· did' not succeed because of the- plow being to large, running to deep and a balky horse, In artemoon got some' oak for ax handles' and cleared' some' ground Am read1ng- some in' the-Bible" beginning with the book of Joshuao 20 Friday.;.. Done the cooking Very blustery; stormy weather with snow, Laid in camp part of day and hunted mule J oHoJames and LoM'o Porter with their families» LCall with wife Jane and baby N T .Por-ter &. J'eLPorter 16 souls arrived from Ajelon 25 miles this evening', reported' being 5 days on the road and having had a bad 0 . , I) time' because of- bad' roads 21 Saturday The women attend' to the cooking nowo After breakfast I went with AI va Porter to hunt mule travelled over 'much country came back into valley 4 miles below camp but did not In afternoon find her Camp was moved 1/4 mile up to the forks 2 benches to sit and assisted in making corral for cows and calves . 0 .... Il 0 uponD Fine dayo 22 Sunday of Helped milk the cOWSD Read some in DesQNews Good conrerence prayer of Gene> April 6,..., First 1/2 day meeting by GoQDCannon and remarks by JoTaylor & GeQoCannonj bene by Wo Woodruff Windy day Had a wash allover in the creek and changed " . . - , D II my clotheso inMade a large harrow with a smaller one to work 23 Monday start him side. J.HeJames assisting meo In the afternoon helped - work on a milk cellar 24 Tuesday - I) Cut down timber and cleared ground for plowingo |
