March 1888
1 March 1888 • Thursday
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.
2 March 1888 • Friday
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.
3 March 1888 • Saturday
Repaired wagon tung, was sick in fornoon Snowed hard in afternoon.
4 March 1888 • Sunday
Tooele Took Alice & children over to Grantsville to visit with Nerva, returned same day.
5 March 1888 • Monday
Cleaned up around the yards & sorted over the rubbish &.
6 March 1888 • Tuesday
Went to Stockton making collections Saw Gillespie about dues.
7 March 1888 • Wednesday
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.
8 March 1888 • Thursday
Tooele Letter from A. F. D. Geo. Little was here talking trade for sorrel mare. Cleaned up about the stack yard. &c. [p. 121]
9 March 1888 • Friday
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.
10 March 1888 • Saturday
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.
11 March 1888 • Sunday
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.
12 March 1888 • Monday
Tooele Straightened up in the work shop and about it and did the regular chores. Went to see Jas. Hensen, Elkington & Frazier.
13 March 1888 • Tuesday
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.
14 March 1888 • Wednesday
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.
15 March 1888 • Thursday
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.
16 March 1888 • Friday
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.
17 March 1888 • Saturday
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.
18 March 1888 • Sunday
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.
19 March 1888 • Monday
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]
20 March 1888 • Tuesday
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.
21 March 1888 • Wednesday
Burnt sage in Front street, plowed east of sheds Sowed Lucern seed &c. Had Frazer & Nelson at work also Jas. Dunn by piece work.
22 March 1888 • Thursday
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.
23 March 1888 • Friday
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,
24 March 1888 • Saturday
Tooele Stormed nearly all day. Did some writing & reading, sold hay and waited on Dun mare & vick
25 March 1888 • Sunday
Snowed all day Staid in & read, did the regular chores. [p. 124]
26 March 1888 • Monday
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.
27 March 1888 • Tuesday
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.
28 March 1888 • Wednesday
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.
29 March 1888 • Thursday
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.
30 March 1888 • Friday
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]
31 March 1888 • Saturday
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.