Woodruffs leave for Salt Lake Valley from Kanesville, Iowa.
13th I visited Chimney Rock in company with others Br Branch
measured the base of the foundation or mound upon which the
main shaft or pillar stands found it to be about 600 yards in
circumference, 100 feet high from the base the pillar is 50
by 25 feet in diameter & holds nearly that proportion about
125 feet High making about 225 feet high from the base, the
whole column appears more of a hard clay formation than
rock except A few veins runing through it of white stone
we travled around it & clumn the pillar as far as possible
Mrs Woodruff myself & many others engraved our names
as high up the pillar as possible the whole Appearance of
Chimney Rock would indicate that the Ancient Nephites or
some one els had built the mound & erected a great tower
upon the top of it And the whole formation of the Bluffs
in this region of country Appears more like the ruins of Ancient
cities than of Nature, we had a Hard Thunderstorm
& travled several miles in it we camped 6 miles east of Scotts
Bluff
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