Some of the boys next day arranged to work for their board, and the others would be taken along if they would furnish themselves with flour and bacon.

This part of the proposition fell to me and two others, and so Hazelrig and I took the two colts and started for the city, where they told us we could get all we needed with our little purse of money.

We reached Hobble Creek before night, near Salt Lake where there was a Mormon fort, and were also a number of wagons belonging to some prospecting train.

There seemed to be no men about and we were looking about among the wagons for some one to inquire of, when a woman came to the front of the last wagon and looked out at us, and to my surprise it was Mrs.Bennett, wife of the man I had been trying to overtake ever since my start on this long trip.

Bennett had my entire outfit with him on this trip and was all the time wondering whether I would ever catch up with them.