Wilford leaves for the Salt Lake Valley with the first company of pioneers.
7th The two companies started out before us this morning
we travled 7 3/4 miles & nooned on A small creek which
scarsly afforded water for our stock & but little grass, while
here Another Mo company of 13 waggons passed us we were in
fair view of Laramie Peak with its top coverd with snow.
I found an Abundance of sweet thisaly in the bitter creek
bottom whare we camped last night much of the shrubery
which we past to day was the black currand & goosbury
we travled this Afternoon 5 1/4 miles & camped for the night on
the Horse shoe Creek in the most splendid feed we have met
with on the journey the other three companies went ahead
Hors shoe Creek is heavily timbered with cotton wood Ash
& willow it is quite A large stream I went to fishing with
a hook & line to see if I could not get some trout but I
cought nothing, the Black Hills Are A good deal timbered
with pine. The Hunters brought in two black tailed deer
& one Antilope to night, distance of the day 13 mils
Professor Pratt took several Barometrical observations at Larimie
during 3 days & found the highth above the level of the sea to be
4090 feet, the Tattitude was 42º 12' 13". By a mean of
six six sights with a good sextant the Longitude west from
Greenwich was in time 6h 56m 47s.5 equal to 104º 11' 53"
Lat. of the warm springs west of Laramie 42º 15' 6"
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