18 We drove 30 Miles visited the Black falls and camped 30.
~ Saturday
19 Drove to Grand falls and nooned we visited the
falls which were about 100 feet in the main falls we drove
8 Miles & camped for the night 16 Mils
~ Sunday
20 Sunday we drove 15 Miles to the Turkey tanks and
camped for the night. These tanks are in the hard
calcined Rocks are some 100 feet long 24 wide and 10
feet deep all pure cold water from Rain and snow
the country abounds in Deer Antilope & Turkeys
and wild Beast we heard the Turkeys Gobble in the morn-
ing before we were up The Altitude was 6900 feet 15 M[iles]
we drove on the old Beal Road and saw some 20
Antilope & shot at some at a long distance but got none
~ Monday
21 we drove through some of the finest Pine country I
Ever saw in my life we saw 10 Antilope to day camped
for the night at the Flag Staff springs Altitude 7575. 16 M[iles]
~ Tuesday
22. we drove 8 Miles to San Francisco Springs which
had been bought By John W Young but 2 Gentiles had taken
possession of the house and trying to Jump the place
said Dr Vail had sold it to them. there was
but one Man in the house when we went there. we
took the things out of the house and set them into
a waggon and drove them out side of the fence and
took possession of the House 3 Men that John W Young
18 We drove 30 Miles visited the Black falls and camped 30.
~ Saturday
19 Drove to Grand falls and nooned we visited the
falls which were about 100 feet in the main falls we drove
8 Miles & camped for the night 16 Mils
~ Sunday
20 Sunday we drove 15 Miles to the Turkey tanks and
camped for the night. These tanks are in the hard
calcined Rocks are some 100 feet long 24 wide and 10
feet deep all pure cold water from Rain and snow
the country abounds in Deer Antilope & Turkeys
and wild Beast we heard the Turkeys Gobble in the morning before we were up The Altitude was 6900 feet 15 Miles
we drove on the old Beal Road and saw some 20
Antilope & shot at some at a long distance but got none
~ Monday
21 we drove through some of the finest Pine country I
Ever saw in my life we saw 10 Antilope to day camped
for the night at the Flag Staff springs Altitude 7575. 16 Miles
~ Tuesday
22. we drove 8 Miles to San Francisco Springs which
had been bought By John W Young but 2 Gentiles had taken
possession of the house and trying to Jump the place
said Dr Vail had sold it to them. there was
but one Man in the house when we went there. we
took the things out of the house and set them into
a waggon and drove them out side of the fence and
took possession of the House 3 Men that John W Young
"Journal (January 1, 1873 – February 7, 1880)," April 17, 1879 - April 22, 1879, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/4Rvn