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Show -312I s pokc a few 'm Lnut.ea My son Hole:.nd CDJ:1e down Las t nicht and rell' back thin mo: ninr; nith )'h"'<11 GhQf:fee. l!.:mma Lg 0mith& W1UO\'''j of JeSG . <> 2nli t.h and her son Don Carlos. c ame down from Jno\7flake .t.o sec me be f or e I \1·/cnt. of'·. :3he went back in t.ne t.:;v(;ninc I start.ed for April 12. Utah; 1ad my wife Julia; and cLildrel1» \filford ';Of: Harmah , Ue had' Addie Jesse Lq and De Lria a Lorig ,three waGons and seven horses. t*!e drove to .tolbrool{ where we too {. dinner ,,<vi th Lawrance Eanson.,. Illy daugh t cr- Della was t.her e '1..1 the' ar t cr-no on \70 dr-ove to E ?'.:. ,,'l.\anner$s place vJhoro VlG rte..y ed,all night and put our horses in his pa6tre April 13. "It, rcdned about all day w i t.h s orne f Lur-r Le s of ,Bl'lOW, and it VJ'3.G vary c o Ld Ie; howe ve r , Dloddod thl"'OUCh the mud and 'Lot to a ';incl mill t.wo m.l Lc c below H:;.l"'dy, about, 15 milos t.o day April l!-.. .:rriclay .•. no drove to a' nind mill about 10 miles belo\IJ 'Hnslow, on the north side of t.he river I took this road to avoid the crossing of ,the ri ver b0101.'"! 1.Vinslow wh i ch was r-e oo rt.ed to be b ad 'I'he r-e we t.ock d Lnncr-j abou t, fifteen [Jiles in the af'ter noon. e trQeled bout 10 miles, turniric the bend of the river. , ... fj , .. .. , , . 0 I , 'je Graveled to the ri ver pril 150 ;3at'Llrday just be Low the crossig then went on dONn on the old road i a point onposite an Indian' school ",. Je traveled on the wr-ong r-o ad a short distancet but soon discovered the error"o From this 'point on thereany i e old roads that'lead off in'all direcion3. so that it is very diffi cult to te1l wh i c h is ·i;,he right one, as so many roads come in to these trading ,pasts and 8choolso April 16.' Sunday 'I drove across to the other road a short distance; this also proved t.o be an Indian r-o ad v'/hich we fqllov: , ( , , 'ed GODe six m.l Le a , when I took a horse and cut across toward 'c,he ri vet: and s aw INhere we were I found an old -E'r"ack that led to the r rve r , .and vw follo\yed this to 'the:: Grand Falls 'fJe had a Ii tt.le," very heavy sand ;Je then came on today in getting across about 4 miles nd campdo e made some 12 miles ... Q 0 . 0 April 179 I'.1ondaYfil ':re only cont.inued our- rJ'ay'on down today river" the pas s i ng 131ac'k Falls and camped near the ri V8r. 'I'ue ad ay April 18 en, r-e achi ng a po i nt, a little below where, 'the'road leaves "the river and comint,; to the road that goes from Flagstaff to i"uba Ci t.y 1 we decided. t.o t alce this r-o ad , 8.8, i t was much better. and I ished to get some e drove within crain. 11 m i Les of Tuba City and made Q dry campo \'Jo wEmt in to 'I'uta C i April 19 Wednesday t;r where \,,fe took I bouzht, 200 dinner" pounds of o a t.s e.nd hay at 2i:¢ per puund In the afternoon De drove to illov SrinG 'a3ho Next morning we took the wrone r-o ad , but. findinG our mistake vte returned. (ie had a sic animal which detained us some. We then drove until lato It was dark but one'of us went on ahead with a lantern to follov the r-o ad , About 10 PI) I,:. «e reached an Indian camp, near Limestone Tanlc April 210 An Indian directed us to wher-e we could get water and after filling our water barrels we went on over'the ridge and ciade a dry camp 1 1r'" P i V «e c ne r: 0 1 0 r ac 0 _1,_ 22. Sa t ur-uay cr-eve t.o Apr ; l' or, outt 1. t s s a met vIe cr-o team co did not being late, ; day , the first v!e had seen on the road. Ie Got o ur ·€tutfit ferried acr-o s s the rive Anri12.3 ,";unday" $ and then Grove on t.o the ranch Louse, wl.ere we tided over for tLe rest of the,day e were treated royally by the Johnston Broso VL10 »ex:e tending t he 'ferry". T!-J.ere wer-e only t.wo i.er-e and a s O'r;:; got. s ome lltilkjj also a bucket one i d but t.lie viee Q r-e the::; of , G Ct :1 . III _ ',) ..... 0.. , . \ . v .. 'l " I sometimcsijl appleso April 24. ondayo e Qrove - OU' "'" to oan _,J C ree',: I..) .l_ lfLere l1 we rD ... J . |
