OCR Text |
Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 233 CHAPTER XXXV. The Missionaries for Mexico We are to Explore the Country Our Outfit and Mode of Travel Our Stubborn Mules Incidents of the Journey. WHILE the work of printing was in the press, the brethren wanted to go on the mission were selected. It was agreed instead of going by rail road and ocean to Mexico, that we would fit up with pack and saddle animals and go through and explore Arizona on our trip. At this time there was but little known by our people of Arizona. Even Salt River valley was not known by the head men. Hardy, able- bodied men of faith and energy were wanted for the trip. Besides myself there were selected, J. Z. Stewart, Helaman Pratt, Wiley C. Jones ( my son,) R. H. Smith, Ammon M. Tenney and A. W. Ivins. The book of one hundred pages was now ready, being bound in paper. About the ist of September, 1875, we appointed to meet at Nephi and start from there with pack animals. Two of the company, being in the extreme south, were to join us at Kanab. We left Nephi about the loth of September, and with our books, some two thousand packed on mules, we started out. We had a good out-fit for the trip. The people of the settlements, as we passed along, assisted us in every way. Some additions were made to our outfit. One place, Cedar City, gave so much dried fruit that it became necessary for us to have another pack mule, which was readily ftirnished. We stopped a short time at Toquerville, where Brother Ivins joined us. From here we went to Kanab where |