Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
I rode to South Weber and we did not
arrive till a late hour. It was very dark. We got lost
in the bluffs and came very near running our carriage off a
steep bluff. I went to the fort got a pilot and lantern
and we arrived in safety. The people were assembled
for a meeting. I spoke to them for a short time and
spent the night with Orson Pratt at brother Kington's.
Next day we rode to Ogden City and met
with the people in the capacity of a quarterly Conference.
We had a strong wind through the day
and night. It was the strongest gale we ever experienced
in these valleys. Much damage was done and many
adobie houses were blown down some unrofofed fences laid
prosterate carriages and waggons mashed to pieces hay and
straw stacks blown over and many chimneys blown off
Next morning the people were gloomy in
consequence of the destruction by the wind which also continued
strong through that day and until the next which was Sunday
I reported all the discourses of the Elders
at the Ogden Conference. I left Parley Pratt preaching in
the afternoon of Sunday and rode to South Weber where I
preached in the evening to the people
In company with Joseph Young Horace
Eldridge and Henry Herriman I rode to Tooele City to
hold conference. There were others of the missionaries
attening this Conference which continued several days
