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Show and George Taylor were some ot the players . 53. No . 54. No . 55. No. 56 . No . 57. No. 58 . There was some trouble over the water Just after the Paragonah. Resorvoir Co. was formed. Tb.is trouble was serious to bring on a lawsuit. Resorvoir Co . lost. No det.,ils. 59. There v,as little or no trouble except between the sheep men and the oattle men. This trouble took tne form of hard feelings and onae in a while an argument. Nothing serious. 60. None. 61. Nothing. 62. None . 63~ Did not Join order beaause of a lease on brother's farm. One man aere, William Robb, Joined. H• did all the work on his ta.rm, helped on some of the others and then had to give up a·part of t 'he gre.in that was raised on his ground . Did not get any that had been raised elsewhere. u1n the fall of 1879, Mr • . Robinaou was aalled •itb. a oompany ot other me~ to go to Sa.n Juan tor the purpose _of settling that oountry. He took wUb. hitti 15 head of oattle all of v,hio·h were lost before th.ey reached their de~tination. In this oompa.ny of 100 wagons and 150 people, mostly men, were William Robb, Henry Holyoak and Jim Dunton. There were also some women and on114ren along. ffThis was an extra hard w1n,er. They went by v,ay of Pangu.itoh, thru Esoala.nte and had to build road as they went and att1mes it seemed almost impossible to get thru. There were springa about every ten miles aorosa the desert but somet.imes they were unable to reao h that far and had to use water found in holes in the rooks wh1oh was very fortunate. "At the 50 ~ile spriiig Mrs. Deokers baby was born,she and baby got along fine. They oampe4 at this plaoe on Christmasday and had a real danoe around the Gampfire. They stayed there ·until they made the road thru \he b.ole in the roo:t whioh was a hill of solid rook and the wagons bad to be let down by ropes and ohains. At this plao they felt as tho it was impossible to try and go on but the majority were for going thru * so the next obst&otle in their way was the 6olorado river here tney bad |
