[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Locust Creek Encampment, Middle Fork. Morning clear and pleasant. About 8 a.m., President Young came into post office and directed a letter to be written to the pioneers, Everetts and Gleason, captains, instructing them not to build the bridge over the west fork of Locust Creek, but to complete the other contracts and then pass on to Miller's Mills on Grand River and take jobs of work there where they can get cornmeal and flour in exchange for their labor, and to leave as much corn as they could spare out of the contracts on Locust Creek. 4 wagons with 4 horses to each started out to the west fork of Locust Creek for corn for the first company, which was to be taken to our next encampment, which will be on the divide above or near the headwaters of Big Medicine Creek. At the same time President Young, accompanied by A. P. R. [Young], George Miller, J. D. Lee [Young], J. Holman [Young], and E. Snow, rode some 6 miles out on the prairie to examine the route and look out the location for the next encampment. Returned about 1 p.m. bringing with them a fine turkey which J. D. Lee [Young] killed while on the scout.
President Young reported that they found an encampment about 6 miles on the headwaters of Locust Creek, middle fork, and a part of the camp would probably roll on that point on the morrow. The health of the historian is improving. He has sat up the most of this day. Evening clear and pleasant, wind north but scarcely perceptible. The maple and elm trees began to shoot forth their buds and blooms, which by us are used as feed for our teams. From 3 to 7 o'clock p.m. the greater part of company number 1 were removing their encampment to the edge of the prairie, about ½ mile west of the main encampment. President Young removed about 7 p.m.
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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