May 29, 1883 I received 2 letters from L Harris I wrote 2 letters to A F McDonald & A. E. Hinkley I met with president Taylor at the Gardo House & heard a letter read from Christopher Layton upon the organization of his stake of Zion
As we got through An English Lord was brought into
the Gordo House to be introduced to President Taylor But
he would have been one of the last men I should have picked
out of a croud for an English Lord for He looked more
like a Baby or a child than a lord.
31. I spent the day choreing Br Farnsworth was with me
~ Friday
June 1. I wrote one letter to Sarah & sent her $5
I took on the Rio Grand & De[n]ver R R at 21:o30 oclok
We went up the Spanish fork Canyon and through Price
River Canyon it was over a vary crooked Rail Road
we travelled up Clear Creek Fish Creek and Price River
to Pearce Station and stoped & spent the night with
Brother Birch who was keeping an Eating House 124 Mils
the most interesting point in passing through Pine Canyon
was Castle gate A perpendicular rock or Pillar 500 feet
high, the whole canyon was quite romantic
~ Saturday
2 A cold winday day we left at 8 oclok with Brother A M
Cannon & Thomas Edward Taylor and Bishop George
Frantzen took us in his wagon And we rode over a Barren
country without any grass or hardly vegitation except a
little greasewood & sage to Huntington 250 Miles forded a Deep
river we dined with Bishop Cox the town was laid
~ Tuesday
May 29, 1883
[FIGURE] I received 2 letters from L Harris I wrote 2 letters
[FIGURE] to A F McDonald & A. E. Hinkley I met with president
Taylor at the Gardo House & heard a letter read from
Christopher Layton upon the organization of his stake of Zion
As we got through An English Lord was brought into
the Gordo House to be introduced to President Taylor But
he would have been one of the last men I should have picked
out of a croud for an English Lord for He looked more
like a Baby or a child than a lord.
31. I spent the day choreing Br Farnsworth was with me
~ Friday
June 1. [FIGURE] I wrote one letter to Sarah & sent her $5
I took on the Rio Grand & Denver R R at1:30 oclok
We went up the Spanish fork Canyon and through Price
River Canyon it was over a vary crooked Rail Road
we travelled up Clear Creek Fish Creek and Price River
to Pearce Station and stoped & spent the night with
Brother Birch who was keeping an Eating House 124 Mils
the most interesting point in passing through Pine Canyon
was Castle gate A perpendicular rock or Pillar 500 feet
high, the whole canyon was quite romantic
~ Saturday
2 A cold winday day we left at 8 oclok with Brother A M
Cannon & Thomas Edward Taylor and Bishop George
Frantzen took us in his wagon And we rode over a Barren
country without any grass or hardly vegitation except a
little greasewood & sage to Huntington 20 Miles forded a Deep
river we dined with Bishop Cox the town was laid
"Journal (February 1880 – December 1885)," May 29, 1883 - June 2, 1883, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 25, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/x6W3