[Hosea Stout Diary] Tuesday Aug 8th 1848. Our cattle fared badly last night[.] We had turned them out there being plenty of grass dow the stream and upon going down we found the whole land covered with a strong incrustation of saleratus & the water almost entirely alkali[.] My two best oxen and one cow appeared as if they would not live an hour and every appearance indicated that I would be left without a team. This was the case with many more[.] After giving the cattle some thing to work off the poison we went on passing by a stray spring & lake of alkali.one of Arnold oxen was in the same fix.
We went about 14 miles today and my animals recovered.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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