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to keep from getting Cactus slivers that fester & make such nasty sores that children shouldn't handle them.
When we could we got milk as we camped near ranches one time the cows had eaten wild onion or garlic the milk couldnt be eaten. the Gorge & Garlie sisters sang so beautifully together & often sang evenings around camp fires. Water was high from snows when we got to the Sevier river we had trouble crossing it & they had to several times, one day mud was so bad the company only got across it & 5 miles on our way that day by doubling teams laying brush in the mud & other ways we got along, one bad place our mules balked we girls cried when father had to beat them & he told us to go on down the road, he always got out & walked up hill to lighten the load & if it was a steep pull he had us get out & walk he was always kind to his animals thats why we girls cried when he had to beat the mules in watering them one time he told us to go in a certain direction to see Cactus blossoms & at times we saw them along the road. It was the first we ever saw, they were so lovely. As we got in the wagon to leave S.L. City the cat jumped up in the wagon & we took it. It amused us girls on the road. We went through Kanab & one noon we stopped at Johnson, there was such a pretty spring coming out of a high rock. At the foot of it was a place that held the water & pretty flowers moss & plants growing at the edge of the water.
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As we neared the Big Colorado River we met travelers who told us it was high & that a Brother Roundy in a boat had been caught in a whirlpool & was drowned. They kept telling of the rapids that were so dangerous. I thought the rapids were falls & we had to go over or through them. Things need to be explained to children so they wont dread as I did, the rapids.
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Then we went on to Buckskin mountain. It was a steep long drive & we girls enjoyed walking. Then we camped at Houserock & it did resemble a house. The spring water was good as it came spouting out of the rock. our next water was Soapsprings a desolate place with its high cliffs & sand the road was loose sand which made hard traveling, then on to Lees ferry there our cat left us we never saw it again always before on our journey it was ready to get in the wagon as we left camp, the Colorado River was very high so we had to take the wagons to ferries & cross in a rowboat, but before we got to the crossing we had to cross the Paree River & the Colorado being so high had backed water up in to it so it was level with its banks, there was quite a company of us traveling together, the men made a raft to drive the wagons onto then rowed the raft across but when our wagon was rolled onto the raft it wasnt even & slipped
off one side into the Paree the men
and father got into the water & hitched horses that were up on the bank to our wagon with chains and ropes the horses pulled it out, the other wagons went on the raft across safely but
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