[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 16 I took Brs Young & Rockwood into my Carriage & dr[ove?] on with the Camp 6 1/2 miles & nooned in the same valley which we named Mathews vale. We travled in the Afternoon 9 1/2 miles with perpendicular Rocks on one side & steep Bluffs on the other thousands of feet high. We had a bad road for the sick to travel in & wearied Br Young out & He was sick at night.
For several miles on the North side of the Road we discoverd A dark substance Runing out of the holes of the Rocks which Congeled. It had some the Appearance of gum myrr or opeum ownly it was hard & bitter As Allows. We could discover it for 10 miles in places along on the rocks. Distance of the day 16m.
I went to webers fork 1 miles from our encampment & Cought one trout for Br Young.
[source: 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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