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Show 14 HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. the equal has never since been recorded. Men and boys were engaged almost daily in shoveling snow in winrows to bare the grass and furnish shelter and food for the starving cattle. Even the horns of cows and oxen were sharpened by filings to give them better means of defense in fighting wild animals, and enable them to break through the crust of the frozen snow in search of the drygrass. Of the two hundred and forty head of cattle brought in by the colonists, only one hundred and thirteen were living the following June. The Indians camped around the colony greedily devoured the dead animals and praised their white neighbors for giving them the beef to ward off staiwation. When the camp was made and all was in readiness for the winter, a company of twelve, under the command of Jerome Bradley, was sent back to Salt Lake City after provisions. They loaded their supplies and started for Manti, but were detained at Provo, on account of reported Indian hostilities. Two friendly Indians, Amnion and Tabinan, a brother of Chief Walker, volunteered their assistance as guides, and the party left Provo and continued on to the "Forks of Salt Creek," where they were forced to camp on account of the great depth of the snow. The next January, Tabinan rode into Manti and informed the people that a white man was lying across the Sanpin-h river, almost dead. A party headed by Bishop George W. Bradley, started out on snowshoes and found one of the supply company, trying to wade through the snow, which was three or four feet deep. He reported the company snowed in, and sleds were drawn by hand over the snow, ranging in depth from 8 to 20 feet, to their camp and the supplies brought in during the nionth of March. Among the people arriving then was Daniel Henrie and wife, she riding on one of the sleds. In tho evening following the first warm dav of earlv |
