24. I started out with two other Brethren at Day light to see
if we could not get a turkey I wrode 8 miles but sayw nothing 8 M[iles]
we assembled for a Meeting Orvil E Bates Presiding
4W Woodruff spok 40 M[inutes], Lot Smith 25, Br Lake 20. we
then rode to the Saw Mill over a Rough stoney road
we saw about a dozen wild Turkies they were of Divers
coulers of white read & Black like tame Turkies & not all
Black like the Mo wild Turkey but they were vary large
The mill is a stem saw mill, the one that was at Trombull
it has a capacity for sawing 10000 feet of Lumber per day
it is surrounded with an immens forest of Pine timber
the surface of the Earth is sprinkled over with quite a quantity
of loose rock yet the whole face of the Earth is coared over
with rich luxuriant Bunch grass, which makes a good heard
ground for all kinds of stock. I spent the night with Br Merrill
All the settlement live in the United Order and eat at one
table and all seem happy and contented 10 M[iles]
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