March 1888

Tooele Hauled all the barrels up to cidar cellar [p. 120] gathered up lumber, poles posts & scraps with team & wagon, hauled rock & peach tree out of Apricot orchard.

Tooele Had Elkington & Frazier at work hauling manure in the forenoon and filling well in afternoon, I plowed dirt for filling well repaired large gates at west front and bar way in east yard. Took wire off middle fence and wound it on spool.

Repaired wagon tung, was sick in fornoon Snowed hard in afternoon.

Tooele Took Alice & children over to Grantsville to visit with Nerva, returned same day.

Cleaned up around the yards & sorted over the rubbish &.

Went to Stockton making collections Saw Gillespie about dues.

Went over to Pine canyon to see Mr. Leaver & make collection. Rep. Shed & manger. Rec’d letter & check from Bracken for $2100. Went to see Jos. Dunn. Bought gum boots for $3.35.

Tooele Letter from A. F. D. Geo. Little was here talking trade for sorrel mare. Cleaned up about the stack yard. &c. [p. 121]

Tooele 6 in snow in morning. Did chores, cleaned snow off stack of hay, made paths, put tung in wagon Talked with A. F. D. through telephone.

Tooele Card From Nerva. Hauled trash from lot south of house & put in old well. cleaned up granary, sacked up oats & hauled up to stable. &c.

Wrote letters to Seney & Seventies Quorum. read News & Book Mormon. Did the regular chores. Wrote letter to A. F. D. & card to Nerva in the evening.

Tooele Straightened up in the work shop and about it and did the regular chores. Went to see Jas. Hensen, Elkington & Frazier.

Tooele Went to Grantsville & got Pine Leaf & Nerva & children came over with me and staid here a couple of days before going to Farming[ton] to live Raked up rubbish in yards. &c.

Tooele Showed the folks about the place. Vented brand on bay horse & turned him over to Elkington & Frazer they having finished their work for him. $4000 @ $150 per day of 10 hrs. each. Repaired gates &c.

Tooele Took Nerva [p. 122] & children to Depot, Saw Frazer about coming to work also Wm. Nelson. Made a new gate broken down by Mrs Phister’s cow.

Tooele Had Frazer at work hauling brush, sage & dirt, finished filling in well. Bolted 2 in lum. on east stable door and made a slamming peg for it. Fastened peg to Vicks window by chain wire. Took tung out of & put shaves in the buckbord, made holder for whip on buckboard. Raked up on the south of work shop & in the yard east.

Tooele City Met A. F. D. at the terminus in Basin pasture with horse & buggy. Took Pine Leaf down and brought Doll back. Looked the place over with A. F. D.

Drove around the place, went & saw Hensen & Dunn. Hired Dunn to do our watering and rented 7 acres of land to him. rained during the day.

Snow on the ground visited with A. F. D. and took him to Station Saw Frazer & Wm. Nelson about coming to work. Sent $22.85 To W. R. $5.00 to buy lucern seed and 1725 to pay Deuyville Co-op. Wrote Fred in evening. [p. 123]

Tooele Made 10 foot pole & stakes to mark the place for trees drove stakes on front side walk and up driveway to barn. Had the side walk grubbed & cleared and poles & posts hauled in from south side near front street, plowed ditch on Front side walk &c.

Burnt sage in Front street, plowed east of sheds Sowed Lucern seed &c. Had Frazer & Nelson at work also Jas. Dunn by piece work.

Had Nelson, Frazer & Tanner at work by the day and Dunn & son for by contract.

Sowed lucern seed east of sheds & N.E. Corner of Apricot orchard and had it harrowed in. Took down some fence & bolted on 2 poles Drove some stakes for trees. Repaired harrow.

Tooele Had Tanner at work harrowing. I sowed Lucern seed in front west of Apricot orchard and grass in Apricot orchard & had it harrowed in,

Tooele Stormed nearly all day. Did some writing & reading, sold hay and waited on Dun mare & vick

Snowed all day Staid in & read, did the regular chores. [p. 124]

Tooele City Saw Mr Dunn about signing contracts, Saw Gallaher about coming to work. repaired desk put up sign or notice of hay for sale. &c.

Cleaned out from under sheds, put salt in all the yards, Wrote A. F. D. Saw Nelson about coming to work. waited on McCuistion with a mare &c.

Tooele Staked off land for trees, measured land plowed by Geo. Little. Went to see Frazer Tanner & Gallaher about coming to work. Received letters from A. F. D. & Bracken. Waited on McCuistion & Dunn with mares. Wrote to all the owners of animals in pasture notifying them to take animals out when snow is gone.

Tooele City Had two men baling hay & 4 men at work by the day digging holes for trees, plowing, harrowing, digging up old orchard to replant with poplars. I marked off & staked for trees weighed, tagged & piled baled hay. Laid out work for men.

Staked off for trees, Had 4 men digging holes for trees, one harrowing lucern. I laid off the east boundry for posts. Sowed lucern seed in N.E. corner of our land. [p. 125]

Tooele City Drove stakes for about 300 trees. Saw Mr. Jas. Dunn and had him sign a contract for irrigating. Talked twice with A. F. D. through the telephone Drove horses off lucern east of enclosure.