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expended our money and not bought near what we actually needed:
sheep, milk cows, and other cattle beside implements, lumber, and a
thousand and one things that at present we could not think, neither
had we time to think of them, as we wanted to get them out [of]
the towns and settled as quick as possible. I must also add that we
got very little information as to what we should buy, as the imple-
ments in this country were entirely new to them, and when we
bought the Buckeye mower, they acted like a lot of children while
inspecting it. The whole affair looked to me like a little girl enjoying
herself with handling her first large doll, and they had to be cautioned
many times to be carehl or they might lose their fingers or get
cut in some way. We were not very anxious to have any sick people
on our hands. So far all are well. . . . At 8 o'clock at night [when it
was no longer Sabbath], Capt. Morris, the U. S. Land Register, was
kind enough to swear Edelhertz whom I told him was a
Rabbai [sic] . . . .
Sunday, Aug. 6th [188r]
. . . . At 9: 30, we arrived at Cimarron, and once more we were
almost all together. Expense going on, of course. When I arrived
there, I found this to be a small station and only about 150 in-
habitants in [the] entire county, of which about IOO live in town
here.
All the farmers were in and received me kindly, offered every
encouragement to me in the shape of their teams for ourselves and
freight, free of charge, and also offering to do our teaming per-
sonally, and offered to show us what to do and how to do it. [They]
also told us that they made slow progress and some of them total
failures the first year, only owing to the fact that they did not know
how to handle a prairie farm that had never been broken and did
not know what to sow. They told me that our colony should profit
by their experience. They would show us everything and lend us
all the aid in their power, because they said our coming would drive
the stock men off this trail and make them go to the state line,
that is, the Colorado border about loo miles west.
The farmers and the stock men are antagonistic, because their
interests differ. The farmers want more land broken and thus in-