[William Clayton Journal] ...The soldiers are getting dissatisfied at being kept here so long from their families and yesterday several of them left the camp secretly to go to Winter Quarters and this morning others are gone, but it is probable that President Young knows nothing of it yet although about a dozen are allready gone and others are preparing to follow them.
On Tuesday President Young laid a foundation of 4 houses, Elder Kimball 4, Col. Markham 1, Dr. Richards 1, and Lorenzo Young 2, and today Dr. Richards has laid the foundation of another, George A. Smith 2 and Wilford Woodruff 2, making a total of 17 houses mostly 14 feet wide and from 12 to 17 long. Elder Kimball has his house 4 logs high.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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