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6 ACADEMY oF Paciric Coast History.
1846 Saturday 28th Snowing fast now about 100 clock snow
~~ 8 or 10 inches deep soft wet snow, weather not cold
Nov. §
wind W.
Sunday 29th _— Still snowing now about 3 feet deep, wind
W killed my last oxen to day will skin them tomorrow
gave another yoke to Fosters hard to get wood. [4]
Monday 30th Snowing fast wind W about 4 or 5
feet deep, no drifts looks as likely to continue as when it
commenced no liveing thing without wings can get about.
Dee. December Ist Tuesday Still snowing wind W_ snow
about 514 feet or 6 deep difficult to get wood no going from
the house completely housed up looks as likely for snow as
when it commenced, our cattle all killed but three or four them,
the horses & Stantons mules gone & cattle suppose lost in the
snow no hopes of finding them alive.
Wedns. 2nd. Continues tosnow wind W sun shineing hazily thro the clouds dont snow quite as fast as it has
done snow must be over six feet deep bad fire this morning. [5]
Thursd. 3rd Snowed a little last night bright and
cloudy at intervals all night, to day cloudy snows none
wind S8.W. warm but not enough so to thaw snow lying deep
allround expecing it to thaw a little to day the forgoing
written in the morning it immediately turned in to snow &
continued to snow all day & likely to do so all night.
Friday 4th Cloudy that is flying clouds neither snow
or rain this day _it is a relief to have one fine day, wind
E by N no sign of thaw freezeing pretty hard snow
deep.
Saturday 5th Fine clear day beautiful sunshine
thawing a little looks delightful after the long snow storm.
Sund. 6th The morning fine & clear now some cloudy
wind S-E not much in the sunshine, Stanton & Graves
manufactureing snow shoes for another mountain scrabble no
account of mules. [6]
Mond. 7th Beautiful clear day wind E by S looks
as if we might some fair weather no thaw.
Tues 8th Fine weather Clear & pleasant froze hard
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