Day in the Life
Journal Entry
6. I spent this day in my Garden wI budded my orchard over today
whare I had been cheated by Charles Oliphant with fals fruit
all of his Jerman sour bough, Early Joe, & Fall Pippen are all one
kind of Apples and a small hard crab he has introduced this fals
fruit all over the city. I also budded 30 sprouts of Apple with an Apple
from Whiting called sweet June. Wilford returned home in the Evening
with his Mules He went up Mill Creek yesterday Morning to Allexan-
ders mill there was a heavgy shower of rain on the mountains & two
clouds met & burst on the dividing ridge betwen Mill Creek & Big
Cotton wood Wilford sat upon some slabs eating his dinner on the
bank of the creek, below the mill when he heard a terrible Hollowing
He run up the bank to see what it was, when in a momen[t] a colum of
water 10 feet deep came rushing through the mill carrying away the
dam & a part of the mill & carrying with it a large number of saw logs
timber, & flood wood & sweeping away the slabs upon which Wilford
sat a few seconds before, he was saved from instant death almost
by miracle, this flood went thundering down the canyon carrying
away dams, Mills, Bridges &c Wilford left his wayggon & came home
to day with his mules, the rodes were destroyed the like torrent went
down the Big Cotton wood Canyon destroying the road in its course
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