Show Animals Blood To Quench Thirst ThirstOn On April 1 I 1163 lilli I lift left Pleasant Utah with a company of or Immigrant grants grant in 40 41 4 wagons captained by b Mr Boll 11 for tor 8 Ban In n Bernardino Cal At Salt Bait on the Desert we arrived parched with thirst and drank 1 ly iy I of 01 the salt water before we realised how unfit It was waa for drinking purposes The result wo was prostration throughout men and aM animals Th Tb The next neat watering place wa was Bitter Springs II 40 miles mile fur further further further ther on across the hot bot desert Many dan of or orthe the cattle and horses gave v out and In sheer desperation men cut the Ih throats throat I of ot their prostrate pro tte cattle In order to get t the blood and drink It ii In order to stop the he burning of their throats Men women and children drank this blood 4 to save ave their lives The th company Sinai final ly iy I struggled In to Bitter Bitler Springs after nr this bard hard journey Journe but bUI seven wagons waon were ere left leh on lilt the trail to crumble In the desert winds wind because the animals that drew dw them bad had b ten n sacrificed to quench the thirst of ot their drivers We W continued on the Journey j after ahr resting at gi Bitter Sprints and arrived at fun Ben Bernardino on the Uh of ot July Zuly 1111 US 1811 u I came to Utah from Los Lo nIM A by wagon alOn In III ISIS I and bad bed to work th the road most of the time upon ing here bere I located In Fillmore where I made macl and burnt the first nr kiln of lit brie brick that was WIll ever ver made In Utah In 1531 1111 the only mull mall we had was wu between here her and Los Lo Angeles Angel month ly iy the lb carrier got get Into trouble with the Indians Indian It wa wee deemed necessary II that someone else 01 should hould take th the tbt mall mali malland malland maliand and I was u selected I S |