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the country and procure, if possible, guides who 
knew the way. The sum of it was that there were 
three trails, one by Red Rock, one by Boise, and 
one by Weiser. After going over the matter thor- 
oughly, we decided upon the Weiser trail as being 
the most feasible. | | 
It happened one day shortly after this that I met 
a Jackson’s Hole guide whom I knew. He told me 
that he had become interested in temperance mat- 
ters and was looking for a party to take out. Hav- 
ing known him for some time, I realised that the 
temperance affair was a recent development, but 
thinking that it would last a month or two, I men- 
tioned his name to H., and we thought it would be 
rather clever to send him to Weiser in advance. 
From Weiser he might take the train to Council, 
where he could ‘‘muster in”’ an outfit of guides and 
horses. He might then start a day or two in ad- 
vance with the pack animals and leave saddle horses 
for us, with which we could overtake him, as we 
would travel faster without impedimenta. We 
quite understood that the Wyoming man was not 
familiar with that part of Idaho, but we also knew 
that he had had lots of general experience and could 
probably select the horses and guides. All things 
being arranged, we laid in our supply of provisions, 
and with a very complete camp outfit, packed our 
man off to Weiser. 
F., who was to be third member of our party, 
now turned up, and at 6:00 a.mM., September 18—, 
we found ourselves side-tracked at Pocatello. Our 
sleeper had been cut off the north-bound train and 
