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Show -22- A gravel bed was in the middle or the stream. The man worked his way and got out on this gravel bed; the horse floating along by the gravel bed with his head out of the water. The man walked up and down the gra¥al bed but he was ~fraid to go out to make the horse get up. Hye Rasmussen rode out and made the horse get up then he led the horse to the shore. The other ho:Bse started down the stream floating into deep water. He floated for quite a ways then he worked his way toward shore and stood up in the water with the double trees under his feet~ It was getting late so we camped for the night. Next morning Charley took t he horse and double trees and crossed the river. The men decided to wait a few days till the water went down. We traveled on. I learned later that the Indians we had seen in Heber came along in about a week. 'l'he Indians forded with t heir four horses hitched on in head of the horses and wagon. When they were nearly across the same horse fell down in the same place it had previously fallen. The Indians with their horses pulled horse and wagon the rest of the way to dry land. Charley and· I CWlle on and ca mped on the Uni tah on the mouth of Deep Creek. When we wape half way from Deep Creek to Ashley one of my horses gave out. The horse would walk along but he couldn't pull anything. We came on, took the r0i_.d from Deep Creek through Dodd's Twist up the draw and down 1;he pass int.a the-vest end of_Ashley Valley. There I saw a man who told us the way to Dry Fork to get another team. I let them feed for about two hours ~hen. I hitched them up and started up the canyon. When I got up Dry Fork Canyon a ways I met my brother, David. We put the fresh team on my wagon and went on up to Dry Fork arriving on the 22nd ot rune, 1878. We found the folks all well and gladtto see us. While here I went with father down to Green River and went down to Isacc Burton's place ,on Green River. We had green peas for dinner. My brother, Charley, stayed in Ashley. Father, mother and I left the 28th of J"une. We arrived in Huntsville on the 4th of J'uly. On the 16th of September, I started with my family, two of my uncles,. · Erastus and Brigham Heber Bingham, and another man by the name of Rieb.a.rd Shelton. We brought part of my household goods. We were t welve days on the road arriving at Dry Fork on the 28th of September, The next day after we got in, it commenced to rain. It cleared up on the first of October. We had the first frost. The folks had green corn and watermelons. About the 1st of October I hitched up m1 team and t ook my two uncles and Shelton and started for Green River to look over the valley. When we got on the Shelly Bench just below where Vernal now stands, they said they didn't like the looks of the land. They had seen all they wanted to see. The next day they started back for Huntsville. My brother, Charley, took my teams and went back with them to bring father and mother back. |
