CHAPTER V.
IN BUSINESS.
In the summer of 1857, Russell, Majors & Waddell were sending a great many trains across the plains to Salt Lake with supplies for General Johnston's army.

Men were in great demand, and the company was paying teamsters forty dollars per month in gold.

An old and reliable wagon-master, named Lewis Simpson--who had taken a great fancy to me, and who, by the way, was one of the best wagon-masters that ever ran a bull train--was loading a train for the company, and was about to start out with it for Salt Lake.

He asked me to go along as an "extra hand." The high wages that were being paid were a great inducement to me, and the position of an "extra hand" was a pleasant one.

All that I would have to do would be to take the place of any man who became sick, and drive his wagon until he recovered.