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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[Start page]] [[underlined]] May 31 [[/underlined]] Broke camp & followed up Tornillo Creek to Ernst's store. Found no one there so helped ourselves to 2 boxes of corn, some canned goods, coffee, lard, sugar & a pair of shoe soles & used his tools to shoe some of the horses. Left a bill of the goods on the counter & a note of explanation & pushed on west across the valley to the Chisos Mts. Missed the "Dug Out" where we intended to camp for the night & had to go on to find Rock Springs. After striking the foothills of the mts. the road is stony & steep & after entering the gulch it is up a dry wash that has not been travelled since the rains. Up a bed of deep stony gravel with a steep grade makes hard pulling & at [[insert]]nearly[[/insert]] dark I sent Oberholser on to find the water, unloaded half of the load & pushed on up the wash by moonlight till 10 P.M., when we came to an old well with plenty of water down 40 feet. Camped by big boulder & turned out the