Much cooler yesterday with strong winds on the water. Sunny though. Bowled in PM. Got the one corner of the house washed - it had to be done by hand to cut down on the amount of water at the back door.
Helped with the novice intro in evening, then had a party look at MH. M getting ready for her procedure tomorrow.

Occasionally we would pass a box car set to one side and occupied by a lonely telegraph operator.  Many miles of this track was laid on ties that were set on the bare prairie and our train made slow headway.

We passed customs at St. Vincent and then our car was pulled across the boundary line to Emerson having then been seven days on the train

We then unloaded the stock and the next morning assembled our wagon.  I had brought along doors for our house and stables and these were placed upright in the wagon box and provided a good place wherein to place our goods.  This was on a Sunday and during the afternoon we visited Mr. Grant a former resident of Brussels who resided about a mile from Emerson.  There we met John Dillon who had arrived a few days previously from Brussels and he decided to join us on the trip to 7-12 as it would give him an opportunity to inspect the country and to find a suitable location to homestead.

miles of this track was laid on ties that were set on the bare prairie and our train made slow headway.

We passed customs at St. Vincent and then our car was pulled across the boundary line to Emerson having then been seven days on the train

We then unloaded the stock and the next morning assembled our wagon.  I had brought along doors for our house and stables and these were placed upright in the wagon box and provided a good place wherein to place our goods.  This was on a Sunday and during the afternoon we visited Mr. Grant a former resident of Brussels who resided about a mile from Emerson.  There we met John Dillon who had arrived a few days previously from Brussels and he decided to join us on the trip to 7-12 as it would give him an opportunity to inspect the country and to find a suitable location to homestead.

We left Emerson the next morning and Bill Leadbeater and Jack Dixon drove the team and I rode horseback and guided the cattle to the ferry and crossed the Red River without much trouble but the heavily loaded wagon made a stiff pull for the team up the steep slope from the river.

The road was good, but our rate of travel was limited to what the cattle could travel each day.

The Mennonites had set up posts about 10 feet high and about 100 feet apart along this road for about ten miles in order to guide them in the stormy winter weather.  There was no cultivated land in all this distance.

We were much interested in the way the Mennonites lived in villages and cultivated the land surrounding them.  At one of the villages we stopped to inspect a windmill for grinding grain and were told it had been brought from Russia.

It took us two days to reach Nelsonville where we spent the night and put half our load in storage at the hotel, for the road from here over the Pembina mountains was quite hilly.

We discovered there was a road fit for wagon traffic that led in the general direction toward 7-12 so we had to circle around toward the south west by the Calf Mountain and Pilot Mound trail.  This led us up a long incline on the face of the mountain to the top where we had a grand view of the country away toward the east.  The trail turned more toward the west from here over quite a hilly country on past Thornhill and Darlingford, which were merely farmhouses and on past Calf Mountain.

I rode to the top of this hill and wondered why it was called a mountain for I had imagined it would be much larger than it was.