Show RACH SUTTER FORT ST utah 86 sept pt 9 on the evening of the adt if of july 1847 we commence commenced d to organ organize ze companies kapanis banies for traveling home where tt was not a soul in camp kne knew w mit EMI everett and nine or en others were pointed to act as pioneers by going goi ahead and selecting the way we shoma go the hext morning captain everett and men myself one of them set forward leA leaving the main camp to complete the organization into companies of hundreds of fifties and tens our course was now u up the los angeles river in a northern direction Ti direction reaching general andres picos ran chwe bought some fine pears proceeding a few miles farther we camped here we ware visited by general pico he was a jolly soul well dressed wearing ik a red silk sash around his body 10 y he bore in his hand band a lance aliance and shaw showed ea howit was used maneuvering it as s k i in action with mith ag clamy on ath af pf ds i WW Wt yo chow chase cattle to take along for beel beef amly five head of fat three year olds were bought at the frisco ranch lor for six dol dollars tirs per head amounting to tb T tore b next morning we broke camp driving our cattle before us we found them wild and hard to drive they would charge at us and our horses and in crossing a bushy mountain we lost 15 head the next day we lost three and on oa the aoth concluded to kill what was left and save our beef before losing any biby more wood for fire was plentiful crotches were cut and driven into the ground upon which scaffolds were made the meat cut in thin slices and laid on n them and nicely jerked the next morning the pioneers went forward leaving the camp to complete the dry in ing and then to follow our trail that hat evening we camped in a canyon where we found cut on a tree the name peter lebeck killed by a bear oct 1710 1837 7 1 I made a note of his death in in my diary calling to mind when the dead would be baptized for near by lay the skull and bleached bones of a gr grizzly izal be bear A aug ti g g we entered a large valley called tulare valley here we saw herds of antelope and some elk crossing the valley we came to a lake i which our indi indian iiii juide guide told us we could not cross witti with our animals here our guide left lefi us ug saying he was wag not acquainted country beyond this point we fice tte re anell until overt overtaken iken by the behind when all hands moved moed W 4 val valley ley six miles and camped affie S likeas fake as we we sap supposed aase d I 1 was a and b fish but 10 0 hw ware wre tile hu grigry mos 3 a aguede guide caplain fiver ett went to to in an indian village insight in sight the next 1 morning j he tet returned tined to camp with several indians one of ichi wham promised g as a guide for a few days on the 3 d we continued oui our journey up the river the traveling was was bad owing awing to the great t amount I 1 of alkali and other mineral minera sub substances es en theearta the earth it was like traveling oer b f hard y jd frozen e earth I 1 I 1 0 o ath we crossed thie the river so 50 wide by y making a raft on which we transported pur our baggage faeo f the boys waded the river and r gic 4 iome some 0 of f their things oa on tb their air i JACIA hd adour Our swam it the fejt mourning moir ning the rids redskin kin who agreed ali 1 d to go as guide refused 0 fo o travel amylu jaber r inless li alss we would hire his entire endie MB pany any abight in in number I 1 t iL eying the tulare valley on burle our left ft v TO traveled without a guide overhills over hills paa lofty lefly mountains and camped in a awon where water was so scarce the camp was all night watering their ani vaas on the evening of the sixth and after supper the camp was called together levi W hancock and several others addressed the meeting in regard to traveling in order and keeping the tee commandments of god to be united and to hearken to our officers etc for in truth there was and had been A little friction among brethren but at this meeting I 1 believe everything was made right and smooth from tithe time oh aft we had several prayer a i ob the ath we reached a ver where we were visited baid they befi believed eved ux us to W demaa initial they bial ewt a itU iossi bet passed through their village where we saw large quantities of fish and various sorts ot of roots bung up in the sun son to dry on the i nth i th we crossed a dry plain to a river many suffered red with thirst A lew few gave out and could go no further full canteens of water were carried back when they revived and all came into camp the next day captain everett went up the river to examine the route and look for walkers pass leading over the mountain in the evening he sent word for the camp to move up the river ten miles where he would meet them the next day accordingly the next morning we moved up the river and in the afternoon were met by captain everett and men who reported that the camp could not cross the mountain with their animals and that there was no pass or anything like it lieutenants james pace and andrew lytle two of our principal officers together with levi W hancock and father immediately called a meeting of the whole camp to know what to do and what course to go etc it was decided to give up the walker pass as we hadano had no guide nor good map for the aldone od one we had did not give the names of the streams io a jact we did not know where we were the vote was unanimous to take fremonte Fr emonts route and go by way of ort I 1 Ab accordingly cordingly the next morning we retraced our step s bt ft crossed the river about scanty five yards wide vide it was deep deed and theo the current swift on the irth we reached another beautiful river and in the country over which we assed passed the he soil rich endgame and game of various kind ind abou wolver were so tame they the would not run uli from us ug atit would duwer suffer us to pass within a few yards of them while they would either stand and watch us or lie doum iw in the grass as if to hide from our stew but they sometimes I 1 gave us trouble by cutting bur animals adese at night when staked out with 1 ow our I 1 giatas riatas of or raw hide ropes coyotes ate are gribat great thieves steal the meat out of tour our camp kettles at night I 1 have had my in y bridle drawn away from oin under my head at night by a thieving ng coyote I 1 oi the ait ve made an early camp cam and nd had a meeting to know what hodg to db in regard 4 gr d tb fitting t tin outa few pe persons in camp c ohp who h 0 h had d not the means to fit t themselves temse W es out it was decided to send four men ahead to td burties suttees port and ascertain what sutter had to sell his prices etc anthe on the of august we reached a settlement of americans it looked good to behold them and their mch cows cow corsand sand and the large piles of thrashed wheat iri in one pile we were told clero ther ewas warp two thousand bushels this was clean grain ready for the sack wheat was worth two dollars per fan fanega about two bushels here we learned bior tor the first time the location of the church that the twelve apostles with pioneers had reached salt lake valley and that oo 00 wagons were close behind tah was glorious news and we were more than anxious to reach home the next nebb day we reached the A american meri I 1 river about a mite mile and a half from utter lg fort in th the evening the camp held a council 12 1 where it was decided ind and it was them the counsel of diwi W han coito the sev sean es that those not t the rae nee 6 outfit ta tay take th F rough ul t p 0 at i auvale abouel should aa rectal cocq as adf ns to 40 40 perman per months thmas MM of offered A wm 1 1 her ber concluded to stop and go tr to work fit themselves out and come on in in the spring i ou on the camp did dia not move captain everett and others visited sutter butlers Sut lers s fort where they found a blacksmith shop and got some animals shod at the rate of one dollar per shoe made and nailed on they also learned that captain sutter had plenty of flout flour such as it was california style coarse and unbolted tor lor eight dollars per hundred pounds and wheat plenty of it for one dollar a bushel on the the main camp amp concluded to remain and get a number of their animals shod while the po pioneers proceeded slowly ahead to pioneer the way through the sierra nevadas H W BIGLER |