[Hosea Stout Diary] Friday March the 2nd 1849. We were all glad to see the approach of day & were up earley.being driven up by the cold and immediately proceeded on to the Dry Cotton Wood where we put up for our breakfast & to pasture our horses which were now very hungry[.] There was however plenty of good grass here.
After refreshing ourselves & animals we traveled on to Orr & Wests Herd on Willow Creek where we again put up. Here we were again disappointed for there was several of the men in the Company who had come without any meat as Br Shirtliff had agreed to accompany us to this place & here kill a beef for us which he had in this herd & had failed to come so the Col after consulting the Company on the subject concluded to kill the beef for the use of the expedition rathan [rather than] fail for the want of the necessary provisions.
The company unanimously agreed to sustain him in this thing and all bear an equal proportion in paying for the beef if required but at the same time agreed to ask the Legislative Council to make those pay for it who had drew horses for the purpose of going with us & failed & thus left us to do business with a company so small that it would in all probability might cause us to be attacted by the Indians. We looked upon them as desertors.
The beef was killed & as some of our animals were not fit for the service required the Col by the approval of the Company took a sufficient number of horses & mules out of the Herd to fit out the company.
Thus suspending the law as did president Spencer & for the same reason to wit that the expedition should not fail while means were in our reach to carry it on.
All things being thus arrainged we again travelled on several miles and encamped on the Jordan under some cedar Hills where we had the best of grass & a good camping place where we rested well all night.
While at the Herd we learned that the stolen horses had returned to Brighams Herd by one of his boys who came to inform us of the same.
The Jordan at the place of our encampment runs through a deep Cañon â€" has a narrow deep channel & swift current.being very different in all respects after it comes into the valley.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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