Letter to Charles Coulson Rich and William Budge, 5 July 1876
Randolph
Presidents Rich & Budge
Dear Brethren
I feel
that an Explanation of my visit to bear lake is due
you, when I left S. L. City circumstances limited
me to time and my visit had to be short we were
4 days on the way we arrivd at Randolph Friday night and
I intended to be in paris Sunday morning, it took
the boys till 1 oclok on Saturday to get up the teams we
then drove to Laketown I there heard that you was to be
in Meadowvill & Lake town on Sunday I bought 25
bushels of wheat of Bro Weston took it in my waggon
& drove to Br. Cooks thought I might get ground in the
night & come back in the morning so as to spend a part of
the day with you but on our way there we drove into that
mud hole south of Swan Creek which took us an hour
to get out having to unload when we arived at the Mill
it was dark & he could not grind it untill Morning so it
was Near 10 oclok when we started back and after travelling
about a mile our tyre tire run off from one wheel and
broke the fellies [felloes] we had to carry the wheat back by hand
& it took till 3 oclok before we started again and so on our
