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Show 1850' -5- vall :7 of the :Platt, but .because of ,the gre'wi; emigration this ace sen it V1 2I qui te wild. Buffa.lo, however, were aeen alt!lost every d 'S, and sometimes in 'vaat herds. We czo aaed Green Hiver 'the 18th ot .A1J' gust-. Here we er!toul'ltere:1 sa very hard storm. It wa.s vel""Y cold and snowed he:vily on th mOlli1tRino. uite a number of our poorer cattle died. Our team had d'\'1ind,led to one half ,011 its origina.l numbez-, and rre-ny others " .. ' ' .. .. t7el" . "". bo.d ae 0 ff • '. ' We arrived. at Dear River the 22l"ld of At.lguBt, 1850, nnd on the 25th we cro8aed Hobar River. TIlese two streams aro in the Groat Basin and empty into Salt Lake_ while GreE=)n Hiver forrnB the main bz-aneh of the Colorado River and empties into the Gulf of' Cfli fornia • A few da.ys befere reaohing Sal", Lae 01 ty we were met by J. C. 'L. Smith, his wife, Sa:ra.h, and their lit·tle 'boy, }Iorce' C., WhODl we were clad to see. \\fe arri Vtd in Salt Lake City tho 29th of August, 1850, Q,fter a toilfjomo mar-ch of three months. Howevel"'p we haGt enjcyad good. hea.ltll". I he.d suffered much from cJ.ep eunburns .. . . );y , 11095, and lips wei"e 'raw sores, the sun had such liSt strong effeot on my skin. I believe 1 'had the worst case of sunburn of any in o Our t<1am, what vnas left of it tJ Vla.s ,q\d te jttded. boy the, omp any But our wagon!, which my father had made himself t stood the trip very well. We locnted at Centerville, twelve miles li,orth of Sa.lt !,ru<:e 01 ty. J. C" L. Srni th Ii ved hore, and d.i. vicled his land wi th my ft ther, giving us a good start in the valley. Edward Thompson, upon hie arrival, had got a job building a mill for Beff a.bout eight miles south of the Ci ty. After completing' that ,job he bought a plaoe in the Cl t',," where he moved. hi 8, wife. ·AG the gold. fever 't"niU3 qui tee high, he then wen t to California. But he did. no·t do very wthll and returned the same fall. H01i/ever, he was a good roe cham c and eonrnandod high waee 5 We commenced to ill'rprove our lind. bul.,,).t a house, fence t etc., and were blessed in our labors. I,attended the October Conference held in Sal'c JJa...e Clty, 1850. About tr.!s time J. C.:L" Sm:lth'was called. to go south to help build up II'011 County.' As' he t"s engaged to teaoh ache 01 he hired my cousin, George, IJet'.rlt t I) to go in his place$ I a.t t ended ha aehoo I (luring' the. winter of 18501851. Here I formed the aquafrrtance of. 11as S. and. tTeese N. Smi th, with whom I became intimately associated in after years. In the, pring or ,1651 J. 0 •. L. Smi th went south to Iron County to f1.11 his mission there. }\Jy fQther spent the year fa:rz)1ing ana i,mproving our land. We got &long qui te well, but fou:nd it hard to obtain fire 1'lood. Thel"" \vaa none in the va.lleys and tl1at, on the The year of 1852 waa spent in mountains was Qui te inacceasi·ble. 'We raised an tal)Undal1t la.bor 'uppn the '·fa.l:"m cro of whea.t, pro duoing about sixty bushels per aore. J. C. L. vTth had held' out great inducements to my flather to move south '\d th him. lhere fore 111 the fall of 1D52 my father mold his place to Ll ton and Kettleman an d stc.l.rted mouth. E. W. Thompson also sold his place and 'went along.. We were lnte getting started, and 'did. no t leave It commenced. otorming the evening 'Vlre 'until .November 25, 1852. were a.lmost impn.ssible. We r eached the roads and soon tJ'carted, LJce S£l· the of of l)eoenlbelt. fourth miles t30uth C':tty Provo, fifty' the otorma had been ao heaV;J and the prospect for the winter looked so severa that my father and E. W. Thompson decided to We 'rented S,' house of a.. l:h"other ,Stewart. remain hare until spring. 11is frunily was rather rough and. some of his boys be came noted aero t • ' , , • _ . ' horse thieves. ' |
