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Amasa Potter reminiscences and journal

Amasa Potter reminiscences and journal, January 1857.

June 1st 1859 I made Ready &amp; in company with L[ouis]. R[ice]. Chaffin &amp; Thomas S. Johnson[.] I left sacramento city to go home to Utah[.] We had Perchased a Light Spring Wagon &amp; a span of Horses &amp; with this out fit we started[.] we had stayed in calefornia [California] 8 months &amp; had worked hard to get means to go home[.] We came to the scerinevada [Sierra Nevada] mountains &amp; crossed them safely to carson valley then came on to the sink of the Humbolte [Humboldt] &amp; crossed a Desert 45 miles &amp; came up the Humbolte River three hundred miles &amp; crossed the Goose creek mountains &amp; came on into Utah north of Salt Lake &amp; came to Salt Lake City having traveled this trip eight hundred miles with out any accident by Indians, we met many Emegrants going to the Golde mines &amp; they had met with great los[s]es of stock &amp; several People had been Killed by Indians &amp; they warned us to be on gard continuly but we did not see any Indians. We came on to Provo city Utah county &amp; here I parted with Elder Chaffin &amp; Johnson . . .

Transcript for Amasa Potter reminiscences and journal, 1857 January-1910 January, 112

Amasa Potter reminiscences and journal.

"Arrivals," Deseret News

"Arrivals," Deseret News, July 20, 1859.

ARRIVALS.—Elders L[ouis]. R[ice]. Chaffin, T[homas]. S. Johnson and Amasa Potter, who left here on a mission to Australia, in May, 1856, arrived in this city on Saturday evening the 16th inst. from California, by the northern route. They left Placerville on the 10th and Genoa the 13th of June.
Elders Chaffin and Potter arrived at San Francisco last fall on their way home, but not having the means to come any further then, they had to go to work and earn it, and remained in California during the winter. Elder Johnson arrived there in March with a small company that intended to come through this season, but subsequently resolved to remain on the Pacific coast for the present, some to get an out fit and others to diminish their substance so that they can come, if ever, with less expense.
They report that the feed between here and Carson is excellent, never better, and that between the junction, at City Rocks, and Genoa the road was literally filled with emigrants from the States, the majority of which having taken the route by Soda Springs came into the Salt Lake road at that point. They met many droves of cattle which, together with the emigrant's teams, were generally in good condition, and all getting along first rate.
They met Major Lynde's command between the Humboldt and Thousand Spring Valley, conveying a company of nine wagons, and not one hundred and fifty as has been reported, no accessions having been made to the number after they passed through this city on the morning of the 15th of June. The company of infantry, whose special duty it was to guard the emigrant train, not being pleased with the laborious service, were cursing it as a species of humbuggery of which they had become the victims. Crisman's train was met near Haws' ranch and Godbe's this side of Goose creek.

Transcript for "Arrivals," Deseret News, 20 July 1859, 4

"Arrivals," Deseret News.

William Sharp record book, circa 1870

William Sharp record book, circa 1870.

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