News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
24 We drove 28 miles south west to Pinto Valley the commencem[en]t of
the Mountain Meadows this place contains six family, ten men eight Houses
a good grazing country there are two good dairies kept & a flock of
300 goats & 600 sheep. There is 50 Acres of good mowing land of
wide Blade grass & red top, some 5 miles North.
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