Advance company arrives in Salt Lake Valley (still Mexican territory at the time); sets up camp.
14th We travled 14 miles & camped on A small creek. While on
the road Br Mathews Horse got away from him & went back 7 m[iles]
Br Young & Egan went back after him we stoped at the Salaratus
lake & filled our bags with salaratus it was cut out in cakes A foot thick
this lake is 3 miles east of Independance rock we had a hard storm
of rain in the mountains & considerable rain fell in the valley whare
we was the roads was vary sandy 14 mil
we saw A number of herds of Buffalo to day
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