[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 8th We travled 6 3/4 miles & nooned upon A small creek with little water & fair grass. We formed A company of men & went forward of the teams & cleaned the road of stone. We used pick Axes, bars, spades &c. It was A great help to our week waggons. The road was exceding Hilly & mountaineous.
In the Afternoon we travled 8 3/4 over the most mountaineous road we have had on the rout. We then desended into A valley & camped for the night on Labent Creek with an abundance of timber water & good grass. We saw nothing of the Mo companies.
Br John Higby went forward Hunting & saw them when they started out, & they had such strife one with another in trying to start first they did not stop to milk their cows, & in clearing up their breakfast they strewed their meal, salt, bacon, Short Cake, Jonney cake Beans & other things upon the ground through their encampment & when we came up 3 wolves were feeding upon the fragments. I picked up a pocket knife & Spoon left upon the ground.
When we came over the high Hills to day it was so Cold it pierced us like winter. When we reached the valley we found fires the companies in advance had built. We piled on the wood. Soon got warm. An Antelope lay before us the Hunters had brought in. We carved it up with our knives & stuck it on sticks & roasted it on the fire & it satisfyed our Appetites finely without Salt.
Some traiders Came into Camp from the mountain on their way to the fort. G A. Smith Sent A letter by them back to the fort. Distance 15 1/2 miles.
During the evening we visited the traiders & got some information from the salt lake country which was flattering or good account was given of it.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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