Show AN ARIZONA TRIP taylors navajo co ariz aria oct 9 1896 monday august blot 1896 a company of eleven viz alx president jewe jesse N and his bis first drat counselor lo lio rulx H hatch and aad their wives and little four foury year earold ow george A smith brother A JL rogers slater sister driggs drigge Z N X decker dechar and wife rind klemm june bushman and mary westover started for tubs tuba Co coconino conina county arizona arigona Arix ona right after the last lait meeting of a very interesting conference of the snowflake stake hold held at st joseph wednesday naming brother joseph H richards Hio hards second counselor to the biake president overtook us ue we were surprised and disappointed by bj finding that the luxuriant grata graf ground out our homes was replaced by a barren waste of 0 brush and sand alter leaving our first camp this caused a vry very unpleasant feature in our traveling making it Is impossible impo seible for my team to keep up with the others as I 1 had a heavy wagon and the rest of the party parly had bad carriages but we all reached bubs by saturday in time fur for the ward conference which bashold was held diaday and monday the Ins instructions truo that were given were timely and to the point the people of tubs tuba and moon moen ava are living tu in hopes of better time but their crops crop are not as good as last year mainly because the navajo cavajos cut their dam and their fields suffered for water the trot froat killed their fruit except gropes grapes but they have an abundance is nee of choice melous I 1 am indebted to brother hatch for the following the arho brethren with carriages started on their return journey the next day after the conference and when nearly half way to st joseph a raging racing torrent crossed their path aab brother rogers thought they would cross arose next morning and though it roared all night his bin prophecy came true the little colorado was very high when the company reached st joseph but ater riding a horse hone across three times a suitable place was found and all went over safely but brother hatch one of his bis singletrees single trees broke in the middle of the stream and our venerable patriarch was wae in the cold muddy water lor for nearly two hours but all were finally rescued I 1 am quite certain that all of us felt that the lord was watching over us on and were thankful to him lor our safe return home Z N historian of trip |