Wilford leaves for the Salt Lake Valley with the first company of pioneers.
10th A cool morning. Before leaving the camp ground A letter
was written to the next camp put into a small box nailed
to A post 12 feet long one end put firm in the ground the
other end erect in the air as A guide bord containing the follo
wing words. Open this Box and you will find a letter.
316 miles to winter Quarters, Pioneers. Lattitude 41°. (our
friends no doubt will be glad to get the letter as it contains
an account of our Journey.
We travled 6 miles & nooned then travled 4 & camped for
the night our teams are some weak in consequence of not
getting grass for several days as it was eat out by the Buff
alo there was one Buffalo, one deer & one Hare Brought
into camp by the Hunters to day, & bdistributed among the
men in camp we have what fresh meat we want daily
the grass is some better to day not but few Herds of Buff-
alo on our rout, today we passed through some miles of
dead grass which we set on fire to have new feed for
the next company it made a great fire indeed we get
our distance daily now of our travel from A mashine
fixed to a waggon wheel which gives the true distance
we camped to night by an Island of cotton wood 10 m[iles]
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