St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-04-13

and broken on the south side Of
the river. Thefc is a range OF high
hills or mountains covered with
pine trees. but on the north side
there il barren sand hills and
plains. We encampcd on the bank
OF the river this evening
July 3d This day we Travelled
until about two O'Clock aud en-
camped for the night. Killed one
buhaloc and two deer today. One
of the men by the name OF Belder
lost his horse Yesterday evening
when he was huiiug hufaloe. He
hitched his horse and could not
find the place again. Himself and
another man went back this morn
ing but the hor,c was gone. They
found the place where the horse
was hitched, but no horse.
July Ath. Started this morning
at six O'Clock The day is warm
and the road ruff. We travelled
about IS miles and encamped at an
excellent spring of water. We are
about days travel from a stream
called Sweetwatcr. The country
here is hilly, abounding in sand
hills and sand rocks and mountains.
There is plenty of buffaloes and
grizzly bears and wolves. Killed 3
buffaloes today
July sth.-This morning we left
the camp at the usual hour, and
after a hard days drive came to a
creek called Swectwater. There
we encamped for the night. Killed
some buffaloes today, and seen a
good number OF them. A band
had liken to have run over some
of the Wagons, but we shot some
of them and the others fled. We
have seen no timber scarcely today,
but a sandy plain nearly destitute
of Vegetation with now and then
cleft of rocks. our encampment
this night is near a rock called the
independent Independence rock.
II is a rock about i5o feet high OF
solid granite.
July 6th.-We left the 1ndepen-
dent rock this morning at the
usual hour of starting. We are
now in a valley that will lead us
over the mountains. Nothing
happened today worthy of notice
excepting we seen some curiosity
in the rocks along each side of the
creek. There are mountains of
granite rocks. The creek runs
through a gap in solid rock
which Is not less than $50 feet
high on each side and about so feet
wide at the narrowest place. II is
nearly perpendicular on one side
aud on the other il is shelvey
[shelvingl over. We eneamped
this evening OH the banks Of the
Swee,water creek which extends
the whole length OF this valley.
July 9TH. This day was warm
aud the way rough. Nothing
happened worth notice. We seen
plenty of buiialoes and killed four.
We encamped this night OF the
bank OF the creek near a high
cleft OF rocks.
July Sth.-This day was cool
aud the valley more level than IL
was yesterday, We made a good
days travel and seen a great num-
bcr OF buiialoes. Killed : and ?
antelopes. l:ncamped this even.
ing on the bank OF the Sweetwater
creek.
July 9th. This day we started
at the usual hour. The route is
sandy aud hard travelling. We
are now in sight of some high
mountains which are covered with
snow We seen thousands OF
buiialocs today aud killed 10 OF
them, We encamped this evening
on the bank OF creek.
July Ioth.-This morning was
cold and the wind blew hard,
which made il disagreeable travel
ing Nothing happened worthy OF
notice today. We encamped on
the bank ol the creek this after
noon. There are a great many
currluls and gooseberries here,
July IIIh.-We stopped at the
place we eucamped at yesterday
evening lor the purpose OF laying
IN supply OF meat for the balance
OF the our journey for the old
hunters say there is no buffalocs in
the mountains aud on the other
side We had poor success in
killing bulialoes today. We have
killed nothing but COW and
steer, but their meet is of an ex-
cellcnt quality.
July I2th.-We stayed at the
same place today that we encamped
on the 10th until 18th and dried
butfaloe meat, Today we killed
four buitaloe cows and some turkey
and lcaughl some fish.
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