Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

old block fort of General Grant's times. There we
waited until 4 p.m. while the freight was carried to
a second steamer. At 11 p.m. we reached the Dalles
where we boarded another train which took us
around the Dalles to Celio. At 4 a.m. all the freight
was transferred to another steamer taking us to
Walula where we spent the night. At 9 a.m.
Wednesday, we took passage on Dr. Baker's
railroad reaching Walla Walla after 55 hours from
Portland. Elder VanHorn and I spent November
visiting believers in Upper Columbia and
Northwest Oregon.
In the summer of 1877, two families from
Santa Rosa moved to St. Clair, Churchill County,
Nevada, and later placed a call for me to come. I
arrived at Wadsworth Station Feb. 1, 1878, and
was met by Jackson Ferguson who took me 35
miles across the desert to St. Clair, passing only
one residence on the way. St. Clair is on the
Carson River about six miles above the sink, on the
edge of the Great American Desert. It is 5 miles
from "Rag Town," were the immigrants stopped
on Carson River for a few days to change their
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