Mormon History, Friday, Mar 13, 1846.

RichardsonÂ's Point. The night was cloudy with occasional showers, the morning clear after a slight shower of snowflakes, and the wind northerly. So much water has fallen within three days that the small creeks in the vicinity are not fordable. Brother Isaac Chase continues sick with the lung fever. (He was removed to a neighboring house.) Several cases of fever and ague, coughs, etc., are reported, but in general the camp is much more healthy than could reasonably be anticipated after such a severe storm of rain.
10 a.m., Presidents Young, Kimball, Taylor, Smith, Richards, Lyman, Father John Smith, and Bishop Whitney in the historian's tent. Decided to sell such hardware and crockery as could be dispensed with and get more teams for the sake of lightening the loads; also that a letter be written to P. P. Pratt and Bishop Miller who are in camp near Bloomfield, counseling them to sell no provisions except to the camp, and President Young wrote and forwarded the letter immediately. Also, if they could procure grain as cheap, to remain where they were until the remainder of the camp came up with them. Council met at 5 p.m. in the historian's tent, the same as in the morning with the addition of the captains of pioneer and guard. Were instructed to take the names of all their men and report to the council who would go over the mountains and who wanted to return to Nauvoo for their families.
Council decided that those who wanted to return to Nauvoo might return from this place, but the council wanted the brethren who returned to Nauvoo to leave their teams in camp and take others in exchange at Nauvoo. Many of the surrounding inhabitants were in camp this afternoon with oxen offering to exchange for horses, but as they generally wished to get a horse worth two yoke [of] oxen for a yoke of steers, very few trades were affected. The evening was very clear and pleasant, the sky clear and the moon shown bright. President Young spent the evening at the historian's tent and had conversation with several of the brethren about their return to Nauvoo. About 9, he went into Dr. SpragueÂ's tent and spent an hour. 3 or 4 cases of distemper reported among the horses.

[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal]

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