8th we travled 6 3/4 miles & nooned upon a small creek
with little water & fair grass we formed a company of
men & went forward of the teams & cleaned the road of
stone we used pick axes, bars, spades &c it was a great
help to our week waggons the road was exceding hilly
& mountaineous, in the afternoon we travled 8 3/4 over
the most mountaineous road we have had on the rout
we then deesended into a valley & camped for the night
on with an abundance of timber water
& good grass. we saw nothing of the companies
Br went forward hunting & saw them
when they started out, & they had such strife one with
another in trying to start first they did not stop to
milk their cows, & in clearing up their breakfast they
stewed their meal, salt, bacon, short cake, Jonney cake
beans & other things upon the ground through their
encampment & when we came up 3 wolves were
feeding upon the fragments I picked up a pocket knife
& spoon left upon the ground.
When we came
over the high hills to day it was so cold it pierced
us like winter when we reached the valley we
found fires the companies in advanced had built
we piled on the wood, soon got warm an antelope
lay before us the hunters had brought in we carved it up
with our knives & stuck it on sticks & roasted it on the
fire & it satisfyed our appetites finely without salt
Some traidere came into camp from the mountain
on their way to the sent a letter
by them back to the fort distance 15 1/2 m
during the evening we visited the traiders & got some inform
ation from the which was flattering or good
account was given of it
