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Show 111 6 . and is much bot tor this year than usual. Fr_cCky, .'\ugust 24, tJ'!C racked up and passed through the deserted -cor;n of lan·guitch. Th houae a reme.ined the, eamc Eta when they vrer0 loft. The racent :ra.il1S had caused things to grow qnite fast, and tho grtlsr.1 as (l foot high in 'the ot:reota. The grain looked almost ready for t 10 ha.rve::rt e' 1 t vro.f3 qui to Loneaome to 3CC 'such good pros pects and not 0. \7"d to marl in -the vc.lleYI) ,oon after, a company came over and ha.:rve3 ted. the grain. 5ie 'hc'lpcd ouz-ae 1 ve e to a f(!)w po ta toes as we passed but could not carry enough to lst long. We folIo ve d on up t!16 S"'.r1er Ri VT about, seven r:::1102 to where the coun tz-y opened out into ano t hez' vc.lley. Then vie turned to ·the ee.stt following up & canyon that came 'tru\t direction fOI' fi-vc 01" six nd took dinnr. miles, AftW7ard wa rode OL for six miles and came to the top of the divide where tile water runs to the ea:3<t into te J1;ust Fork of the Se,rj_cr Hi ver. Wf8 f·ollowed a mo e t lev-ely flat, or cpen Lng , covered with a 1 :omricnt growth of grass sn d do tted. with a £'(3,"..7 scatterj.ng pine trees. It r.;dned mo at of the afternoon. A ride of about four miles down this beautiful flat brought us the the East Fork of tho ev1er$ 'On reachi:ng the riverS' I had the compe,ny camp, while I rod0 ahead four or f1Ye miles to th\ divide to sea if it VJ'ere possible to get down to the l?ahrea.h. There Vias a gradual rise from the ri'ver, and all reaching the top I saw 1 t broke off per:pendicuarlYll wi th a wd.l1 hundreds o"f feet high extending as fal" e s I could see in either d.irection. The break was to the -east and tho precipice was north and It w£..s raining all the time so tr.iG.t I south. Dearly, could r;e_t only an it1perf'ect view of the coun t.r'y , but could see the irnpossibili ty of passing in this directiO'n._, I had never been to the Puhrenh, but I felt sure that j,ts headwaters we re just before .and almost beneath me ! returned to camp a Ii ttle puaz Led about the oourse to pursue the noxt day. After guard was 'posted and 't'''l€ had pl"ayers, (lome of us lay down, while tt.e rest sat up. V.'e npent a l"!ii£crable Ilight, for it 1as still raining &nd we were in an open field withou shelter or wood. The wa tar was about an inch deep in a11 the beds" In crossing the river just b ef'o r e camping some of us got -wet, but we wer e all ;ret Defore mo rndng ,: oz,e man, Andr-ew Coray from Cedar C1 ty, had a bad spell of cramping so serious that we 'began to think he would die before mo rnfng We wOfiked with him, some rubbblg hhl while others held quilts over him and prayed. for him, and when morning 'came he wa s much b e t t er This wa.B a long 'C'lJ_d miserable Hight for t(ll (if us p and probably added another chapter to the be ok of j_.l) fil"'ma t i ea. Saturday, August 250 "Jie dried ourselves and our bedding a little. Coray seemed better ad thought ho could ride. we went upe t r eam in a southwest di:rection for four miles Here the uall1i;Y narrowed to a canyon,. end, we traveled, seven mf Le e south and e a.et. Here the rim" qr -highest range of mountains tv/as located, and we went through the Lowe e t arid moot fa.vorable-l()okin pass th6.t W could see and came into a. narrow canyon The boys called this . . ... 0 . , , 0 . , Fish 'e 1:- ass. This range. of moun tadne presents a perpendicular wall almost t he eye can reach. It breaks' to the south and es.st After getting down. to where we could turn around we took dinner. Thee were small springe here and a lUtle gl·ass. W'e followed down the canyon ten miles and came to a low place where we could see oft as far as e I' |
