Journal (February 1880 – December 1885)
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~ Friday
Aug 21st 1885
I wote Letters to SaRah Sarah & Junius F Wells
word arived last night that Marshal Greenman
from S. L. C arived at Leeds last night arived with
Documents for such as He could find here but
He did not arive here last night I occupied my
former boarding place I have spe[n]t the day writing
~ Saturday
Aug 22 In company with Brother & Sister Thompson & 2
children we drove from St George to Thompson Grist Mill
in Pine Valley over rough roads we spent the night at Bennets 40 Miles
~ Sunday
23 Sunday we had a rainy day I spent the day ^reading^
~ Monday
24 Brother Thompsons Mill was run by Charles W.
Bennet it was in bad repair we took up the Burr stones
this morning and Brother Thompson & myself spent the
day dressing them though I had not done such a thing
before in 55 years
~ Tuesday
25 We finished Dressing the stones to day & Put them down
~ Wednesday
26 We have had rain, two days it cleared up this
Morning & we went fishing up pine Canyon Creek
We fished up the south fork then the North but all
the borders of the creek was so full of Brush & large
rocks & steep Bluffs it was almost impossible to travel
and vary difficult to get the hook into the water it took
3/4 of the time to wallow through the Brush clime rocks
& untangle my line that I could not fish one quarter
of the time I caught 20 trout & Br Thompson 12, but I
was so weary when I got through I could sccarsly stand
on My feet 10 Miles
~ Thursday
27 I spent the day mostly at the Mill resting
~ Friday
Aug 21st 1885 [FIGURE] I wote Letters to Sarah & Junius F Wells [FIGURE] word arived last night that Marshal Greenman from S. L. C arived at Leeds last night arived with Documents for such as He could find here but He did not arive here last night I occupied my former boarding place I have spent the day writing
~ Saturday
Aug 22 In company with Brother & Sister Thompson & 2 children we drove from St George to Thompson Grist Mill in Pine Valley over rough roads we spent the night at Bennets 40 Miles
~ Sunday
23 Sunday we had a rainy day I spent the day reading
~ Monday
24 Brother Thompsons Mill was run by Charles W. Bennet it was in bad repair we took up the Burr stones this morning and Brother Thompson & myself spent the day dressing them though I had not done such a thing before in 55 years
~ Tuesday
25 We finished Dressing the stones to day & Put them down
~ Wednesday
26 We have had rain, two days it cleared up this Morning & we went fishing up pine Canyon Creek We fished up the south fork then the North but all the borders of the creek was so full of Brush & large rocks & steep Bluffs it was almost impossible to travel and vary difficult to get the hook into the water it took 3/4 of the time to wallow through the Brush clime rocks & untangle my line that I could not fish one quarter of the time I caught 20 trout & Br Thompson 12, but I was so weary when I got through I could sccarsly stand on My feet 10 Miles
~ Thursday
27 I spent the day mostly at the Mill resting