Day in the Life

May 3, 1851

Journal Entry

May 03, 1851 ~ Saturday

3rd In company with several others we went 3 miles up salt
creek saw a spring of salt water which forms A Beautiful white
salt on the rocks as it runs down it makes several tons each

year we visited one montain of rock salt pure & clean the Body
was more than 40 feet High & so Hard it was difficult to cut it
with an Ax we also saw the ground white made from salt springs
we saw A plenty of the quarts rock & Isonglass we rode to the
severe & camped on its Bank shot one deer while He was
swiming the creek

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Salt Creek, Juab County, Utah Territory
Sevier River, Utah Territory

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President Young while speaking of the Resurrection said that we should receive the same bodies that we lay down if our dust was blown to the four winds of Heaven
~ Brigham Young
B Young addressed the meeting in an interesting manner said his faith was that the Earth would not have produced for the Gentiles as it has for us & if we had faith & power with God to have the curse taken off instead of the sage brush & other useless shrubs we should have the apple pear peach grape & evry good fruit but if this people do not take a different course from what they do in some things their blessings will prove a curse & wo will be unto them
~ Brigham Young

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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
Kanyon]] and on the we went three miles up the Creek to explore it. We visited one mountain of rock salt pure and clean and the body was more than 40 feet high and so hard it was difficult to cut it with an axe. We also saw plenty of the quartz rock and isinglass. We rode to the Severe and camped on it's banks and shot one deer while it was swiming the Creek

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May 3, 1851