Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-26

/ with great difficulty We could move
our loaded WACO D.
We Travelled Tor over four months
and reached the SalL Lake vic, A. DO
was then called, September ljib, 1871,
rejoicing that we had gOt Uut Ui tue
| reach Of the mob. ! came 90 Nauv0o
/ In 1894 with three thousand dollars f
money and when ] arrived IN the
valley I had only 20 cents LETT. We
we're oil on the same footing AMI union
/ aud the shirt VI tue Lord was with u.s.
We went 90 work aui pItup / o ais n
Spanish style with Hat roof, but the
roofs we're failure; they wUllI MT
keep tue rain out.
Next came another trip Of a thsu.
sand miles Hcr0ssa vast desert, There
was com Hnny fitted up 10 go g.
California by the middle rUute.
Father John Smith called on me
anj asked ifl was going with the com
pany. / told him { had talked OF D.
but hal given up the Idea, r. 1 Thought
it was too much of an Undertaking; Inc
shid cattle could be- bought cheap aul
enid " / would 20 they would send
recommend signed by the High tOun.
cil-that they would he resp0nsiIle lot
our acts in whatever cattle We put.
chased. We fitted our with thirty
five unyB 0' puvlsi0n o. tngt WINS
thought PLENTY Tor the trip, bat we
were iofty.slX days on the way. We
started the middle Of November aui
got 10 the flnt ranch lu California tie
1t OF January. We were nearly out
Of provisions and hal been ON hall
tati us. We ate morse ana mulu ilesh,
a hawk aud wolf which was the
worst 0f all. Our OUTFIT consisted VI
eighteen mon. This ranchur a
Ffeucnman named RBlou, sont
out twenty heal OF horses
DO heip us into hH ranch.
10Th two OF our men hal started
ahead from tho Mahavc. one OF thum
tocamo nearly insane and wanted 90
turn back, but the other prevailed on
him % 20 On aud they got % The ranch
and gavs notice OF our situation,
We soon leit for WilliamPs ranch,
ten mites below, what is now called
Ban Bttnafdinu. After we had teen
there some Time We commenced o.
negotiate with Williams Tor one Of two
hundred head of HE cattle. Hls price
WIS siH dollars pur head Tor cows aud
calves. IL l0uktd rather dark 10 him
10 trust men who had been dUyru Uut
from the United States aud were in d
place thousand miles from ciyllIzt-
ton. Al this iunctufo We saw Cap,
Jesse ID. Hunter, aud he loaned me
two hundred doliarl, anu | was 10 pay
this amount 10 his family In Salt Lake
Ia cows 10 q fair value, which | did.
By paying this two hundred and xiv.
ing our note Of ono thousand dollais
we got two hundred cows anu calves.
The next thing was 10 get them actos.
thcdeaefL Two hundred AMI my miles
stretches without water, nnd three
from twenty-five TO thifty-iyc miles
each with no feed, nud sharp grhvony
ground 10 pass over. II took BIN and
bis boys 10 manage them.
We engaged ak Indians 10 help drive
the stock They stayed with W until
We got % Salt Lake. We hal got out
In tue CahoOn pass on our bauk trip
when ouquircd " any had any
potatoes along. No onv had aud did
not know where ~ got any. one u tue
Indians said he knew whore there were
some, but they we're small-thifly. i've
miles distant l ntitd pack animals,
took the Indian Tor a guide anu struck
on n Doe line across the county. We
got 10 a ranch owned by An American,
who received ~ very Kindly. l told
him / was afor some potatoes for seed.
II asked where 1 was going ~ take
them 10 plant told him 10 the Salt
Lake basin. an lot you have the
potatoes" said he, "out you are t0ollng
yourself You had better leave your
potatoes here. You caur raise any
crop there, Tor have been there trap
ping Tor many year"
got between three aud four bushels,
and the next question was how I could
pack them No they would keep from
spelling In golng across the desert. /
was Inspired 10 use n fawhide that we
had Just taken from a small creature
and cut It In half and make two sacks.