July 9, 1890
The Boys returned from Hunting Horses went to Salt Lake did not find them. All caught a few
fish to day spent the Evening playing croque
~ Thursday
10. We went to fishing we went up the Weber abot 3 mils
The stream was vary hard to get to I climed down
the steep bluffs from 100 to 500 feet to the water I tired
myself out and I caught Nothing untill I got to a hole
whare I caught 6 trout vary good fish but it is a vary
bad stream to fish in Owen caught 20 Ovando 15
And all of the company caught some
[FIGURES] Owen scared up a vary large Panther or cowgar
& shot at him with fine shot & hit him & could have
Killed him with a rifle if He had had one
~ Friday
July 11 I spent the day in camp Asahel & company went
fishing & caught 70 trout some quite large we made a large
fire in the Evening with half a cord of wood and the
young folkes played croquee
~ Saturday
12 Saturday The boys & girls spent the day climing the Mountain
& visiting the Salamander Lake it took them all day till
dark to go up & back the Lake coverd abot one & a half
Acres the lake was occupied by an Animal called a
salamander about 8 inches in length had 4 legs like a lizzard
and a head like a Rattle Snake when and there was a fire
built in the Evening they would come out in a great Number
& crall into the fire & burn to death it was about 3 Mile
up the Mountains to the Lake Asahel & company left for Home
~ Sunday
13 Sunday we spent the day in camp reading singin & prayer
~ Monday
14. The Brethren returned from the City did not find the Horses
~ Wednesday
July 9, 1890
The Boys returned from Hunting Horses went to
Salt Lake did not find them. All caught a few
fish to day spent the Evening playing croque
~ Thursday
10. We went to fishing we went up the Weber abot 3 mils
The stream was vary hard to get to I climed down
the steep bluffs from 100 to 500 feet to the water I tired
myself out and I caught Nothing untill I got to a hole
whare I caught 6 trout vary good fish but it is a vary
bad stream to fish in Owen caught 20 Ovando 15
And all of the company caught some
FIGURES Owen scared up a vary large Panther or cowgar
& shot at him with fine shot & hit him & could have
Killed him with a rifle if He had had one
~ Friday
July 11 I spent the day in camp Asahel & company went
fishing & caught 70 trout some quite large we made a large
fire in the Evening with half a cord of wood and the
young folkes played croquee
~ Saturday
12 Saturday The boys & girls spent the day climing the Mountain
& visiting the Salamander Lake it took them all day till
dark to go up & back the Lake coverd abot one & a half
Acres the lake was occupied by an Animal called a
salamander about 8 inches in length had 4 legs like a lizzard
and a head like a Rattle Snake when and there was a fire
built in the Evening they would come out in a great Number
& crall into the fire & burn to death it was about 3 Mile
up the Mountains to the Lake Asahel & company left for Home
~ Sunday
13 Sunday we spent the day in camp reading singin & prayer
~ Monday
14. The Brethren returned from the City did not find the Horses
"Journal (January 1886 – December 1892)," July 9, 1890 - July 14, 1890, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 15, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/A6R1