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Show day. Wednesday, March 11. Rain'd all day this noon Elder Sherwood ascertained from observations, our geometrical distance from Nauvoo to be 55 and U, miles. From the dampness of my lodging, or some other cause I did not rest much and feel rather inispos'd took no breakfast, but for my dinner my good friend Sister M(arkham) brought me a slice of beautiful, white light bread and butter, that would have done honor to a more Utah Pioneer Trails Material is Provided by the SUP Memorial Foundation for the historical and Interesting accounts ac-counts which have brought much comment to the "News Bulletin" and "S. E. Independent." The current story is the diary of Eliza R. Snow which will soon appear In a new book. Her account ac-count continues: convenient bakery, than an out-of-door fire in the wilderness. Thursday, March 12. Rainy yet, intolerably muddy. Friday, March 13. Rain'd some in the night, but colder before morning quite windy our tent blew down and with other accidents acci-dents upset a pail of potato soup which was intended for breakfast, but instead thereof we had coffee, fried jole and "jonny cake." This morning the subject of the fare of the pioneers (the trail blazers who preceded the general contingent contin-gent of pioneers) of our fifty was call'd in question. 'Heber C. Kimball Kim-ball said a distribution must be made, and inasmuch as they did most of the labor, they should have while anything remain'd. Lorenzo Young said they must eat as he did which was a few slices of dried beef boiled and a quart or two of milk added in which he ate his bread. They said they would do so, but had neither the meat nor (Continued on Page 5) Went to Col. Rockwood's tent father Chase quite sick and Clarissa Claris-sa looking disconsolate. Monday, March 9. Our town of yesterday morning has grown to a City, laid out in the form of a half hollow square, fronting east and south, on a beautiful level, with an almost perpendicular cliff on one side and on the other, a gradual descent to a deep ravine on the west and north. At nine this morning I noticed, but a few rods from our tent, a blacksmith's shop in operation, and everything indicated indi-cated real life. Not a cooking utensil was idle. Sister M( ark-ham) ark-ham) baked a batch of eleven loaves but the washing business was necessarily omitted for the want of water, an inconvenience the present location suffers more than any previous one. Had the pleasure of the first interview with Pres. Young since we left the City. Call'd on Sister Taylor and Sarah with her fine boy. Tuesday, March 10. Rainy all Pioneer Trails (Continued from rage S) the milk. Meat was furnished by some of the cows our mess had divided with them at the large encampment en-campment on the other side the Des Moines. Among those who remained re-mained behind to finish Brother M(arkham's) job, some are said to remain there yet not having means to come cn. The rest that have been left at work having all come up including those who stopped about six miles back to do a job at rail splitting, of which I had not made mention. Sister M (ark-ham) (ark-ham) and I made Mother Whitney and Sarah A. a call in the evening. We heard the melancholy news of the death of the amiable and much beloved Sister Caroline C. Spencer. Also through the medium of letters received from Nauvoo, we learned that Wm. Smith and Geo. J. Adams were gathering on one side and John E. Page in conjunction with Strang on the other, while Orson Hyde advocating the cause of truth in favor of the Church, has baptized bap-tized Luke Johnson who has gone east for his family, intending to join the Camp of Israel. |