The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-03

search for the missing sister on the 9Th,
and making III miles in eleven days.
Fort Laramie.
During the afternoon, while resting
here, numbers, if not ali that had any
money left, went to the fort and pur-
chased from tho sutler there. some tea,
coffee, sugar, Rabbits saleratus and
soda, black and cayenne pepper, crack
ers, bacon, etc, of which our supply
that we had brought from Florence,
Neb., had been getting short for the
past week or two. Hints were made to
us while here as to the early fall of
snow, which we might look for In the
next 120 to $50 miles, but the days
were sunshiny and pleasant, and the
nights only cool enough to sleep good.
There were three companies of United
States infantry and cavalry stationed
here; company G, in charge of Cap
tain Ketchum; company c, in charge
of Captain William Foote, and COM
pany D, in charge of First Lieutenant
Carlin. commanding-the captain of
this company being east at this time,
and Colonel Huffman was the COM
manding officer at the fort.
Provisions and Rations.
Up to this point. and since leaving
Iowa City, we had covered S14 miles.
including all delays as recorded, in
seventy-four days, or ten weeks, with
the "cleanings up" of that years en-
igration, and comprising the halt, lame,
feeble, and from the babe in the arms
to the East Indian veteran, Father
Wood, aged Sc, who weathered the
journey to Fort Bridger, but there sue
cumbed.
Our rations during these ten weeks
was one pound of flour per day for
adults, six ounces for the children un-
der years, a few ounces of bacon in
proportion to the -four and the adults
and children, and once or twice week
n few ounces of tea and sugar to the
family, aged and feeble, with some of
Rabbits saleratus and soda to leaven
the bread Herewith, but which in too
many instances made the unleavened
dough cake look as though ii had
bad attack of taundice-
Even with the above rations, limited
in variety and quantity, the able
bodied adults and middle-aged had
stood the journey fairly well and were
ali right and good for another 800 miles.
but the every other night guarding for
six hours was beginning to tell on the
fathers of families and the less hardy
Young men, who were now showing
the effects of such hardship in their
lean and haggard faces and frames.
Enlistments at Laramie.
The three companies of United States
troops at Laramie were not full in
their enrolment and lacked from
twenty-five to thirty-f1ve men in each
company Inducements and persua-
sions were offered and made to num-
hers of our young men to enlist that
had gone to the fort in the afternoon.
and not risk their lives In the farther
200 miles journey from there to Salt
Lake that season. The comfortable
adobe quarters. and the snug and warm
log rooms were quite tempting for
winters rest, with plenty to eat and.
though none stopped that day. We'd
nesday, Oct. s, yet on the evening of
the second day following, after we had
travelled and gone seventeen miles
west of Laramie. William Ashton,
married man, with a wife and five chill
dren. left them all and the company
this evening, with Samuel Blackham
and Aaron Harrison. the two latter