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“Sunday, May [Qtta, a meeting was held in the fort, and President Brigham Young, Elders Orson Hyde, Franklin D. Richards and Lorenzo Snow, Presidents Hobor C. Kimball and Daniel H. Wells, Patriarch and President John Young and President Thomas S- Smith severally addressed the congregation, and gave some excellent instructions. In the aftornoon, Snack, the head chief of this tribe of the Bannocks, and several other Indians, came into the fort and had a smoke and a long and very friendly talk, in which Arrapeen, head chief of the Utahs and svho accompanied the expedition, participated.“Sand stone of an excellent quality for grind stones and a very superior chalk arc found a few miles below the fort, and coal is reported about twenty-five miles below, but the beds have not boon examined. * * *Wo left Fort Limhi at noon of Wednesday, May 13th, and arrived in Salt Lake City at 6:30 p. m. of May 26th, having had a very pleasant trip out and back, and boon absent 33 days.The weather was vory pleasant for traveling. except the evoning, night and day of May 7ih and ffch, during whlch.it snowed quite rapidly at t imo*, but soon melted; the evening, night and morning of May 14th and 15 h. whioh were rendered very disagreeable by a high, cold norih wind, causing the coldest weat heir any of the company had cvor experienced at like da^o, and forming ice more than half an inch in buckets, and finishing up with a snow squall in Spring Creek Pass from II a. m. until noon of the 15th, and a heavy rain on Snake River irom 7 a. m. of May 18th to 11:30 a.m. of ihe 10th, which thoroughly soaked tho very dry soil to the depth of several inches, and made the road quite muddy until evening.“At Bear River, retnrning, Governor Young expiossed nis unalloyed gratification with tho peace* good order, harmony and alacrity invariably displayed by each mcmbor of ihe company and welcome them to tbo fjoo use of two boats whi b he had built and transported to Snake River and back expressly for (heir use, a distance of 193 miles, also to the ferriage at Bear River without oharge, which was quite a sum at the legal rates of toll for so large a company. A united and most heartfelt vote of thanks was returned to our President for his fatherly care ftud kindness, for his prudent mode of rcgulaiing the travel, noon halts, and camps, and tor his most excellent example, counsels and Instruction during the journey*ilIn the different settlements where the company halcodjthoy were very hospitably received and entertained, and at Brigham City, on their return, the whole company were seated at tables tastefully arranged and sumptuously famished inthe large basement room of the public hall, the upper rooms being not yet finished.“The road track is generally very good (being smooth and level for a mountainous country), with the exception of a few boggy places and bench land hills on Salmon River, the volcanic belts and Bandy stretches on Shanghi Plain, and the northern slope of ihe rim of the Basin.“With regard to tfio extensive region of country passed through beyond the Malad Valley, suffice it to say that so far as it was observed on tho immediate lino of travel,or could be seen to tie right and left of the route and beyond Limhi, ihe whole of that extensive region is of but little worth, save to answer the purpose of connecting territory, which might otherwise be separated by a great gulf;4lIn this brief sketch of the journey and country but little allusion has been made to courses and distances, they being given iu the aecompanycng table. The distances include the turnings to and from noon halts and camps,
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Salt Lake City Deseret Weekly
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Mar 28, 1891
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