[Hosea Stout Diary] Thurs Aug 10th 1848. Went on and encamped close by the West Side of Rock Independence. Making 14 miles today & passing over very sandy and barren land also passed over the immense fields or lakes of saleratus where we laid in our stock of this article. Large lakes of which lay like fields of snow crusted sometimes six inches deep over the ground.
We were now on the banks of the Sweet Water where there was already many camps & plenty of grass.
This evening President Young came up. Better prospects were now before us. The Sweet Water Valley abounds in the best of grass[.] It is almost marvelous how Br Arnold ever reached this place with our loads as we did over the worst road on the whole journey and such poor feed, but our cattle seemed to be in tolerable order and our hopes now brightened.
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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