30 FIFTY YEARS A HUNTER AND TRAPPER. 



at the hotel for the night and the next morning purchased sup- 

 plies sufficient to last during the entire campaign, consisting of 

 lard, pork, flour, corn meal, tea, coffee, rice, beans, sugar and the 

 necessary salt, pepper, etc. I remember well when Mr. Harris 

 ordered fifty pounds of beans and asked me if I thought that 

 would do? I replied that I thought it would. In my mind I 

 wondered what we would do with all those beans. But now I 

 wish to say to the man going into camp on a long hunting and 

 trapping campaign, don't forget the beans as they are bread and 

 meat. 



We are now within about ten or twelve miles of where we 

 intended to camp, which was at the junction of the Bailey and 

 Nebo Branches of Young Woman's Creek. It was about the 

 middle of the afternoon of the second day we were out and Mr. 

 Harris said that here would be a good place to build the camp. 

 We got the horses out as soon as we could and Mr. Harris picked 

 out a large rock; one side had a straight, smooth side and was 

 high and broad enough for one end of the shanty and there was 

 a fine spring close by. Mr. Harris pointed to the rock and said 

 that there we had one end of our camp already as well as a good 

 start towards the fire place. 



He told me to begin the cutting of logs for the other two 

 sides and the other end. We cut the logs a suitable size to handle 

 well and about twelve and fourteen feet long. Mr. Harris did 

 the planning while I did the heavy part of the work. 



That night we slept under a hemlock tree and were up the 

 next morning and had breakfast before daylight and ready for 

 the day's work. We could see scuds of clouds away off in the 

 southwest which Mr. Harris said did not show well for us. He 

 had brought a good crosscut saw and it was not long until we had 

 logs enough cut to put up the sides, about four feet high and 

 logs for one end. We hauled the logs all up with the horse so 

 they would be handy. Then we began the work of notching and 

 putting up the logs. 



About noon a drizzling rain started and kept it up all the 

 afternoon. We covered our provisions and blankets the best we 

 could to keep them dry and continued to work on the camp. We 



