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Show 1916 May 260 rJa1\:ine an arly e t.ar t., V1(-'; reached Be aver' alter 9 a mQ and lltle 27" 'stayed with my daughter Joclc Liay Sa.turday!) :ie, left Aunt Eliza ..; at Be aver- to vio1t . a Friday ' while 'iii th Josie and Creel{ wher-e we a. Pine" . the t of us drove 0:1 goinG: ae far as. wi th stayed my erands,On Ambr-o se 133,!"'.raclou:3hCJ 6 'jJo drove' on paG·t Kano sh , some three miles grass to be foundo Ve continud our res IJ'"ay 28 undQy we camped; no May 29 tnday journey passing M0adow Fll1more, and rtolden vhere we turned west for Delta; camped at what they called Haws Bueho 'I'ue s day I.lay 30 Our pet mar-e had a colt last night, so vre had to haul that and going O!l'we reached Delta about 2:30 Po M I stop:jed rvith my bt·otL.er-in Law 'M' i'.!.f» 3t(;ele. le rJent over end loked at some land thnt ·he had about when I was here. I spoken decided 0 where . ,- , ... ... , to I:ay 31.;1 locate it on tednesday. I Lo oked around. some and bargained for a Louse of' Ezra Bunkero I t7as to Give him a horse for itp Vias to he Lp me "'(,0 move it In tile afternoon I move our wagons up on the land wh i ch was near t.wo mL es from town. June 10 'rlmrsdayo It was a terrible windy dayo I looked around somep and my,rieighbors spoke very discouraging about the location. there beinG so much gavel in the sailor underneath. was to pay for' it in installments, but it would amount to about $4-,ODO 00 in ten years for 40 acres Q 111I June 2 I decided not to take the Fridayo and went down place and Br-o t t ake the I =; tha I wc u l d hous: marie pr-e par-a t i.o na to move back to t own , and In the afternoon .l II did so. I stopped wi th IlL> L Steele who t.r-e at ed me very kindly 'Ii and vse talked the matter oven;" and I c a.ne to t he conclusion to return to Kanosh and see if I could e;et'CJ. place thore June 3 I started back for Kanosh and drove as far Saturday as Haw Busho une _" B'unday... I cut across to Fillmore, not. going by Ho l.de n, and camped near l'Cansoh I was a Ii tc l.e sur-pr I sed in see Lng so : many teams going out from Fillmore for freicht on lu be r and he I) .. . . I 1\ 11 . .II Ii> ear:1y notfied Bunk, lO\ c l!-O, $ , (1.\I1, r1 0 . , 0 Jn 5 r1onclay.. I Sundaye into Kanosh where VJe stopped and looked ar-ound during the day. to see wha t I could do about getting a p l ac e Oi ty lots wer-e roout $500 1)00 e ae h, and fa: m land about As I 'iU,S not able "t.o get a $100@00 an acre c as h place at these figures I concluded to go bck to Parowan and look around a ill cr-o ve . 0 , little moreo June 6 Tuesday. We dr-ove Cove to Creek or a 11 ttle past WednesdaYQ VJ'e drove' to Pine Cr-e ek 'Where 'live stopped Ambr os e Barraclough and family wer-e not early dinner so we. oon movd on6 We stayed all night at Indian Creek is now called Ee1::.v--§;-l--l) place fY\1 i{;'(S I/! ) ., (: JUl1G and ,got, at home < 7 .. an \I This June 8.,. Thursday. 1:"Je drove on to Beaver wher-e vte took d l nncr wit,h .l mbr-o s e Barraclough who cras jls·t r-e ady to start for Idaho and h t s fa.. Llcr and' mother were Going on to Pine Creek to t.ake care of their place \fJhile' they were Gon so we drove on t:w .. .. . past Beaver Ridge where. we camped JUl1G 910) 'I.,"e drove on' to ?aro";Jatl and c amoe d at James i.1i tchell 's I was extremly t.Lr ed o.il6. about. 'gi ven out I attended meeting and s po ke a short time June 11 Sunday I nave spen."v be we ek in looking around and June 18/1>. .surid ay visi t i ng old friend,s and relati ve s Ther-e h ae been four deaths here in three days, one was Sister Hadden an aged woman, and one was Stephen Thornton, about 51 years old. Fridayo . 4 QJ |
