Sunday I met with my Quorum in the Morning & Attend Meeting
in the Tabernacle. The Rev John C. Kimball A Unitarian Minister
both Prayed & Preached 56 Minutes upon the principles of there faith
In the Afternoon Elder John Taylor spoke one hour & 36 Minutes. I attended
the Prayer Circle in the Evening. I received 3 letters one from Azmon saying
[FIGURE] that He had Married him Another wife Brother Thompson was in
Poor health
~ Monday
6. I spent the day choring. In the Evening I attended the Meeting at the City Hall with the stock Association.
8. we rode to Center City & Nooned then drove to Faust Station
& stoped with Brother Samuel Simmons 32 Miles
Rush valley has been a good range but mostly eat out considerable
good Hay land at Faust station
~ Thursday
9. I Left Faust Station & crossed the lookout Mountain to skull valley & went to Porter Rockwell Ranch. He has a
vast Range for stock for both summer & winter, after
taking dinner he took his team & took me to his summer
station whare he had some 3 dwelling rooms &Barn & Milk House
over a good spring of water, we looked over the country & returned
to his House & spent the night. Distance of the day 28 Miles
it was 10 Miles from Lookout Station to his winter House & 4 miles
to his Summer House
~ Friday
10. In company with Brothers Rockwell & Shirtleff we rode to
near Mount Look out station they returned Home. I continued
over the Mountain in a snow storm to Faust Station 20 M[iles] Porter Rockwell Had about 500 Horses Mares & Mules & 150
Head of Horn stock & had a foundation laid to get rich
of [if] rightly Managed.
12. (Sunday I preached in the forenoon in the Meeting House to the people
one Hour & one hour in the Afternoon) I Attended the prayer Circle
in the Evening
~ Sunday
Feb 5, 1871
Sunday I met with my Quorum in the Morning & Attend Meeting
in the Tabernacle. The Rev John C. Kimball A Unitarian Minister
both Prayed & Preached 56 Minutes upon the principles of there faith
In the Afternoon Elder John Taylor spoke one hour & 36 Minutes. I attended
the Prayer Circle in the Evening. I received 3 letters one from Azmon saying
[FIGURE] that He had Married him Another wife Brother Thompson was in
Poor health
~ Monday
6. I spent the day choring. In the Evening I attended the Meeting at the
City Hall with the stock Association.
8. we rode to Center City & Nooned then drove to Faust Station
& stoped with Brother Samuel Simmons 32 Miles
Rush valley has been a good range but mostly eat out considerable
good Hay land at Faust station
~ Thursday
9. I Left Faust Station & crossed the lookout Mountain to
skull valley & went to Porter Rockwell Ranch. He has a
vast Range for stock for both summer & winter, after
taking dinner he took his team & took me to his summer
station whare he had some 3 dwelling roomsBarn & Milk House
over a good spring of water, we looked over the country & returned
to his House & spent the night. Distance of the day 28 Miles
it was 10 Miles from Lookout Station to his winter House & 4 miles
to his Summer House
~ Friday
10. In company with Brothers Rockwell & Shirtleff we rode to
near Mount Look out station they returned Home. I continued
over the Mountain in a snow storm to Faust Station 20 Miles
Porter Rockwell Had about 500 Horses Mares & Mules & 150
Head of Horn stock & had a foundation laid to get rich
of if rightly Managed.
~ Saturday
11. I drove to Center Station & Dined with John Rich who had
200 Head of Cattle in skull valley I then drove to Tooele & spent the
night with Brother Rowbery 31 Miles
~ Sunday
12. (Sunday I preached in the forenoon in the Meeting House to the people
one Hour & one hour in the Afternoon) I Attended the prayer Circle
in the Evening
"Journal (October 22, 1865 – December 31, 1872)," February 5, 1871 - February 12, 1871, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 20, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/R6oO