The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-01

! Lake CITY, Utah.
General r. 7. Burton's Journal.
Friday, Nov 1.-THE weather now
very pleasant. All the companies NOV
| ing on. CamDed on the sixteen-mile
| drive, about four miles from Sweet
water Good feed: not much wood. No
deaths i'm the camp tonight. Captain
| Hunts (wagOn) company ahead. Cap
| tain William 3. Hodgett's near
| Saturday Nov 15.4Weather contin-
ues fine and warm. Travelled on eight
miles and camped on Sweetwater. Not
much wood nor very good feed.
Sunday, Nov. 16.-Met ten teams
from the valley, Brother Calls compa
ny, on the Rocky ridge (west of Fort
Bridger)- We camped tonight in lit
tie cottonwood grove. Good wood and
feed.
Monday, Nov. 17.-Fine. warm day.
Camped on a branch OF the Sweetwa-
ter. Distance Travelled not given, but
must have made fifteen to twenty
miles.
Tuesday, Nov. 1S.-Cloudy; showed
in the afternoon. Met several (relief)
teams, William Kimball, James Fer
guson, J. Simmons, H. Stout and
others. Camped tonight at our station
on SWeetWater. Distance again not
given, but / remember that we trav-
today, and the distance covered could
not have been less than yesterday.
Wednesday. Nov. 19-Snowing in the
morning. Sent an express ahead to
the city (Salt Lake.. Company moved
on. Now all in wagons. Three O'Clock
Captain George d. Grant and r. T.
Burton, after seeing the OK teams.
moved on after the company. Camped
tonight on Dry Sandy.
The writer remembers that this
evening or the next, at Mig Sandy,
was a bitter cold freezing night, so
much so that horse or mule froze to
death, and q mule became so chilled
that il fell OFF the high bank on to the
frozen creek below and broke his neck.
Thursday, Nov. 20.-This morning
Brothers Grant and Kimball and
others started to the city. R. T. Bur-
ton waS left in charge of the compa-
Lies. Camped tonight at the bend on
the Big Sandy"
Here Sister Alice Ollorton died and
was buried the next morning where
our family had kept a fire burning
nearly the whole night. She was about
90 years OF age, and the reIict of John
OllOrton, who died on the 18th and
was buried on a bench Immediately
west of the three crossings OF the
Sweetwater. She had been the mother
four daughters succeeding in reaching
salt Lake that season-Mrs. Betsy
wilson Of LeVan, Juab county; Mrs
Jane Ann Mcpherson of Nephi: Mrs.
Sarah EatOugh, the relict of George
EatOugh, a miner, and for many wears
a resident OF Eureka and Bingham
mining camps, Utah, and a daughter
named Alice, aged II years, whose feet
and back became so badly frozen be- |
DID ~,
she was brought into Salt Lake more |
dead than alive, expiring the next day |
and buried Dec. 8, the same day Presi- |
dent Jedediah NJ. Grant was buried in |
the cemetery in this city.
Friday Nov. 21.-This morning |
looked like storm. In the afternoon |
showed little. Met some more teams |
with flour Camped tonight on Green |
river.
Saturday, Nov. 22.-This morning
fair, but cold. Met more teams. Sent
some teams) back to the OK trains
with flour, and camped in Black Fork i
Fort 5rideer, Wyo.
Sunday, Nov. 2S.-Fine day. though
somewhat cloudy. Showed again to-
night. Camped at Fort Bridger The
writer remembers the cold nights at
Red Buttes, at the Devils Gate and
III MARTIN raVlne, but this was the
Black Friday" night of them all. The
children cried the livelong night. 1t
froze hard and the wind had a full
sweep at us here, so much so that I
could not get or keep warm in the
tent, and hearing a violin start I'D.
got out of our blankets, went to a fire
short distance away and there. sure
enough, was Lewis Robinson and Epb
hanks, ciapping their hands and keep
ing time 20 the fiddle, while one of the
valley teamsters was cutting the
pigeon wing on the hind endgate of
a wagon box. Others of our companv
and more boys from the valley soon
gathered, and possibly a little valley
tan may have been in one or two of
their ankles, which would not have
been out Of place at all, for around
the fire we were burning on one side
and freezing on the other.
Monday, Nov. 24.-This morning took
in supplies here for the company from
Brother Lewis Robinson's. Started late.
Camped on the Muddy. Good wood
and feed, but very cold.
Tuesday, Nov. 25-This morning
started another express to the city: G. |,
Fl. Wheelock, Bullock and others. Sent
two more relief teams to the OK trains /
Camped on Bear river tonight. Plenty
of wood.
w tuHeSudNs NOV. Zb-COld but clear
Camped tonight in the head of Echo
canyon, Met Brother Little and others
from the city.
Thursday, Nov. 27-This morning
little. Camped tonight on
the Weber river. Had another express
from President Brigham Young.
Friday, Nov. 2S-Today the road was Z
sidelinS; got all the wagons over the
river safe. Camped in East canyon cat
the quakingasp grove). Met several of ,
the brethren here. Tonight l remem- ,
Der my brother and I making our bed
between two large quaking asp logs :
here the fire at our feet, and next
waking up, found two Chin ,
neys of snow over our faces through .
which we had breathed during the I
night, with from eight to ten inches of
snow on our blankets.
Saturday, Nov. 29-Crossed over the ,
Big mountain. Showing fast. Stopped I
showing shortly after noon. Passed
over the Little mountain. Camped in
he head of Emigration canyon. Met .
more supplies, and the writer remem- I
Ders walking up the Big and Little
mountains today, where the snow on
he east side of either was any depth ,
you chose to call it, if you stepped one I
'oot outside the tramped down track