Show £& 97 nothing but salt water not palatable in our starving state Sight days later the following entry was nade: view of Great Salt Lake Heavy fogs around it covered with cedars "Had distant Country is tracks buffalo must be abundant " Ogden and his men had At present none approached from the west arriving at the northwest corner of the lake The party continued on its course around the northwest Prom of the lake finding very little water and practically no 9 December 28 Ogden entered in his record: food With my consent 8 men started in advance in quest of food the party having been three days without food Here we are at the end of Great Salt Lake having this season ejqplored one half of the north side of it and can safely a assert as the Americans have of the south side that it is barren country destitute of everything Rather than follow the barren lake shore around the arm east side of the north arm of the lake hills gave promise of water Ogden turned to the turning eastward probably just south of the present northern boundary of Utah the trappers struck a stream that must have been the Kalad during the first days of the n ew year Ogden decided to spend a few days trapping the stream while his animals and men had a chance to recuperate after the hardships encountered between the Humboldt and the Halad Says Ogden January 5: "It is strange there should be beaver here as the Americans north where 9 Oregon Historical Quarterly XI Then 1910 391 |