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the wagon wheel. The upper gudgeon plays in a piece of wood nailed to the wagon box, and near this gudgeon on the shaft a screw, a wheel of sixty cogs works on an axle fixed in the side of the wagon, and which aakes one revolution each mile. In the shaft on which this wheel runs four cogs are cut on the fore part which plays in another wheel of forty cogs which shows the miles and quarters to ten miles. The whole is cased over and occupies a space about ei^iteen inches long, fifteen inches high, and three inches thick. Appleton Milo Harmon Goes West, by Mabelle Harmon Anderson, Page 13, 26, & 46. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by B. H. Roberts. Vol. 3, pages 165, 177, 182, 183, 100-1. Under Dixie's Sun, by Washington County Chapter DUP, 1950, Page 72 and 107. Family Tradition Appleton Mile Harmon was my Great-grandfather. All of the events in the story took place, but not necessarily in the sequence in the story. The conversation is imagination. Rrom a drawing by Gene Allen of Los Angeles who illustrated Appleton Milo Goes West. The original can be seen in the Church Museum in Salt Lake City. 107 |
