CHAPTER LIV.

Given Charge of a Company to Cross the Plains to Utah--Composition of the Camp--Start West--Perform Baptisms--Meet a War Party of Sioux Indians--Place where A. W. Babbitt was Killed--Meet More Indians--How Trouble was Avoided--Camp Life and Duties--Enter Salt Lake Valley--Company Greeted by the Church Authorities--Report to President Young and am Released--Trade at Camp Floyd--Experience with a Thief--Go to Work on the Ogden Canyon Road--Hardships Endured.