Mormon History, Jun 19, 1847

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 19th We parted with the brethren who were to attend the ferry & the Camp moved on having been one week. We travled through A barren Country to willow springs /A spring of water/ & nooned being 12 miles. We past the red butes & many rough picturesque seeneries & camped at night by the poison water. Travled 9 1/2 miles in the Afternoon. Whole distance 21 1/2.
Our camping place for the night was the most wretched of any ground we have found on the way. President Young thought it might properly be called Hell gate. All the water tasted as though it run through A bed of salt, salts, saltpeter, sulpher [...]. It was naucious Horrible. The ground in the valleys & marshes was Apparently one half of it composed of the saline floresance or salty substance of which this country abounds. Our Horses & Cattle being thirsty drank a little of the watter & quit it. Some of the cattle got badly miered in the marshes. The traiders informed us these grounds were poison & would kill Cattle but ours did not drink much or feed long. We tied them up.
The Hunters brought in one buffalo & one deer & 4 Antelope.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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