World War I Collection

for which we paid 50¢ apiece, about the worst breakfast I ever ate.

About 9 o'clock the stage came. It was a small wagon pulled by two horses with room for 2 men and the driver and a pile of baggage. [small drawing of the stage with note]: The stage. I rode till lunch which I ate at Kopps, a surveying camp, and after a rest went on again till night. I stayed over night at another surveying camp called Hutchinsons. The next morning I changed stages and went on till I arrived at a place called Beldons were [where] they had shot about 35,000 pounds of powder and blocked up the road. The other fellow on the stage, named Truxel, and I then got off the stage and walked to Gradons camp, where Les is. You never saw a more surprised fellow in your life than Les when I walked in. I stayed over night and went on the next morning to Kerlingers where I am now, about five miles from Gradons.

It is a pretty good camp, but Les has a