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"By the later part of October 1879, the Sreater part of the pilgrims that were to make up the company booked for the San Juan Mission were on wheels headed for the Colorado River at a point east of the Escalante Desert. There were only a few in this company who made the first trip. (That is, the exploring expedition.)" "By early Kovemher the greater part of the company had gathered at 'Forty Mile Spring.' which was down on the Escalante Desert forty miles from the town of Escalante. The company was made of Saints from practically all the counties from Weber south to Washington. After the arrival of President Smith at the rendezvous, matters took on a serious aspect. Scouting parties had been out as far as the Colorado River and met the vanguard of the moving company, informing us that an impassable barrier had been discovered at the river. A council was called and other scouts were sent ahead and about two weeks were spent investigating u p and down the river with the result that nothing more favorahle was found than the hole-in-the-rock. This was an opening in the solid wall through which we could see the river about 2000 feet below." By this time it was getting well along in Novemher and an extra heavy fall of snow on the Escalante Mountains back of the company had Mocked the road and effectually prevented us from returning home. Even at this early date failure seemed tostare us in the face. After another council, several young men, of which I was one, were sent out on an exploring trip for the purpose of bringin5 hack an official report as to the possibilities of getting the company through the hole-in-the-rock." "We had not gone far when we met a party of prospectors returning with hurro packs. The prospectors told us it would be useless to attempt to make a road where the proposed route had been pointed out, say in^, 'If ever>-rag or other property owned by the people of the Territory were sold for cash, it would not pay for the making of a hurro tr ill'1 across the river.' However, we went on and crossed the river. T h e boat improvised for that purpose was about ten feet long and the same width as a wag-on hox. One shovel and one spade were used for oars, and two of us hauled water out while two plied the oars. The water 11eing low in the river, we crossed without any serious difficulty. Several of the boys were detailed to look over tWe country at and near the river and four men. George Hobl~s.IVilliam Hutchings, George Lewis, and myself were fitted out with n blanket each and a lunch for a few days scouting farther out in the country." " After nbout a weeks tramping, we all returned and yavr our reports. Thcre were ahout as many different kinds of reports as there were men. For example we four who were out fartherest toward San Juan
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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
Type	Image; Still image
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Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
Contributing Institution	Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
Rights Management	Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved.
CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 78
Description	"By the later part of October 1879, the Sreater part of the pilgrims that were to make up the company booked for the San Juan Mission were on wheels headed for the Colorado River at a point east of the Escalante Desert. There were only a few in this company who made the first trip. (That is, the exploring expedition.)" "By early Kovemher the greater part of the company had gathered at 'Forty Mile Spring.' which was down on the Escalante Desert forty miles from the town of Escalante. The company was made of Saints from practically all the counties from Weber south to Washington. After the arrival of President Smith at the rendezvous, matters took on a serious aspect. Scouting parties had been out as far as the Colorado River and met the vanguard of the moving company, informing us that an impassable barrier had been discovered at the river. A council was called and other scouts were sent ahead and about two weeks were spent investigating u p and down the river with the result that nothing more favorahle was found than the hole-in-the-rock. This was an opening in the solid wall through which we could see the river about 2000 feet below." By this time it was getting well along in Novemher and an extra heavy fall of snow on the Escalante Mountains back of the company had Mocked the road and effectually prevented us from returning home. Even at this early date failure seemed tostare us in the face. After another council, several young men, of which I was one, were sent out on an exploring trip for the purpose of bringin5 hack an official report as to the possibilities of getting the company through the hole-in-the-rock." "We had not gone far when we met a party of prospectors returning with hurro packs. The prospectors told us it would be useless to attempt to make a road where the proposed route had been pointed out, say in^, 'If ever>-rag or other property owned by the people of the Territory were sold for cash, it would not pay for the making of a hurro tr ill'1 across the river.' However, we went on and crossed the river. T h e boat improvised for that purpose was about ten feet long and the same width as a wag-on hox. One shovel and one spade were used for oars, and two of us hauled water out while two plied the oars. The water 11eing low in the river, we crossed without any serious difficulty. Several of the boys were detailed to look over tWe country at and near the river and four men. George Hobl~s.IVilliam Hutchings, George Lewis, and myself were fitted out with n blanket each and a lunch for a few days scouting farther out in the country." " After nbout a weeks tramping, we all returned and yavr our reports. Thcre were ahout as many different kinds of reports as there were men. For example we four who were out fartherest toward San Juan 'C 78
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1158.pdf

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