[William Clayton Journal] Started again and soon came to the Shariton bottoms which is a very low land for about 4 miles. The road was bad and took us sometime to cross. While on the bottom [Henry] Root and [William] Davis came again. Root has asked permission of President Young to go back to his family some days ago, but it seems things did not go to suit him and he followed his team again. It took sometime to go up the bluff. We had to let the teams down into the Shariton River by ropes and also helped them up again by the same means. Our company got over in good season but we concluded to camp after getting up the bluff as it would take till night for the whole to get up. I spent the day helping the teams till I was so sore and tired I could scarcely walk.
[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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