CHAPTER LIX.

Remove from Ogden to Salt Lake City at the Request of President Young--Necessity for Preaching among the Saints--In the Employ of President Young--On Another Mission, this time in Utah---Preaching and Lecturing--Build a House--Go to the Canyon to get Finishing Lumber--Shot in Mistake for a Bear--My Wound very Serious--Taken to Wanship to Receive Care--My Family Notified and Surgical Assistance Obtained--Moved to my Home--In Bed Nine Months--Two Surgical Operations--Grow Stronger--Employed at the Warm Springs--Dr. Robinson--Abscesses in my Wounded Limb--Out of Employment--Go to the California line to Examine a Gold Prospect--Perilous Journey--Indians on the Warpath--Remarkable experience with a Band of Savages--Gift of Speaking their Language--Unable to work the Gold Claim Because of Lack of Water--Return to Salt Lake City--Go to the Gold Discoveries on the Sweetwater--Discover a Placer claim--An Attempt to Rob me of It--Bush for a Mine--Hold the Claim--Assailed by Hostile Indians--A Race for Life--Three Men Killed--We Abandon Camp--Suffer with my Lame Limb--Lose the Mining Claim--Hauling Coal and Produce--Almost Die--Confined to Bed for Months--Amputation of my limb to save my Life--Recovery--Attend to my Nursery--Advent of the Railway--Traveling and Preaching--A Slight Sunstroke.