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car in which the cans of fish were carried, and heated our reserves, but 

 only succeeded, with difficulty, in raising the temperature of the cans a 

 degree or two, to 66° and G7°. 



Monday morning-, June 30, opened with a warm, bright sun, and the 

 promise of a warm day, and we let the fire in the stove go down ; but 

 before noon it became very cold again, with a squall of snow at Bryan, 

 Wyoming Territory. There was also snow on the side of the track. 

 We built up another fire in the stove, and kept the water in the cans 

 at GOo. 



We arrived at Evanstown, Utah, about 2 o'clock p. in., on Monday, 

 and took on a reserve of river-water. It was clear and comparatively 

 good, with a temperature of 57°. As we descended Weber Canon, to- 

 ward Great Salt Lake, the weather grew warmer, and we descended 

 to Ogden without mishap, reaching this point at half past five, Monday 

 afternoon, with the fish all in first-rate order. Here I left 5,000 of the 

 shad, as fresh and lively as when they were taken from the Hudson, in 

 the care of Mr. Rockwood, of Salt Lake City, who deposited them in the 

 Jordan River, a few miles above its outlet into Great Salt Lake. We 

 also took on here 50 gallons of water from the Weber River, and started 

 westward again on the Central Pacific Railroad, 15 minutes earlier than 

 we arrived, according to the Central Pacific Railroad time, but really 

 about two hours later. 



Everything now looked exceedingly favorable and encouraging. We 

 had passed through more than a thousand miles of the dangerous 

 country without loss ; the shad appeared as lively and healthy as when 

 we started ; we had 50 gallons of good water on board, and only four 

 hundred and sixty miles to run to the beginning of good water again, 

 at Humboldt, and only three hundred and fourteen miles more from 

 there to Sacramento. We thought we had reason to feel encouraged. 

 Our spirits rose accordingly. The terrible strain of the past five days 

 of anxiety began to slacken. We did not know what was coming 

 that very night, or we should not have felt so well over it, for the next 

 night was the most alarming and critical of the whole journey. 



The temperature of the cans was standing at 65°, or within 3° of tlxa 

 limit of danger ; our reserves of water stood at 60°, or 2° below the 

 limit. The night came on extremely cold ; there was no stove or place for 

 a fire in the car ; and the temperature of the cans was falling every 

 moment. In the day-time, hot water could have been obtained by tele- 

 graphing ahead; but at night this was quite impracticable. The situa- 

 tion was exceedingly alarming. 



Through Mr. Perrin's foresight, however, at Ogden we made a favor- 

 able beginning of the night. While I was busy arranging for the trans- 

 fer of the shad for Salt Lake, and attending to indispensable matters 

 which absorbed all my time at the Ogden depot, Mr. Perrin, on dis- 

 covering that there was no stove in the Central Pacific express-car, 

 with admirable foresight went into the kitchen of the depot-restaurant, 



