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Day in the Life

Sep 15, 1873

Journal Entry

September 15, 1873 ~ Monday

145. In company with Br Pike & John Crowther I visited
Eyry [every] department of the Wyoming coal mine & found it
vary Extensive about 50 Men were diging coal & 2/3 of
them members of the Church they got out from 80 to 120
tons of coal per day Br Crowther superintends the Wyoming
Coal Mine & Brother John Hopkins superintends the Rocky
Mountain Coal Mine. We dro[v]e to Evanston at 1 oclok I
took cars for Salt Lake City at 2 oclok & arived at S. L. City
at 8.30 Met Mrs W. & Brigham at Depo distance 117 M[iles].

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Woodruff, Brigham Young, b. 1857
18 Jan 1857 - 16 Jun 1877
60 mentions
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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
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Evanston, Uinta County, Wyoming Territory
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Sep 15, 1873