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Hastings Cutoff – Horseshoe Springs

“This morning it is raining, it seems so plesent to see it rain as we have not seen it rane since we came in the valey before. We now noon near a salt spring [Horseshoe Springs] we then went on to elbow spring [Hope Wells] fresh water it is vary good to. We then went on twelve miles father to the mountain and found a spring [Redlum Spring], it is rather brackish but good water, we traveled nineteen miles today.”
– Sarah Davis, August 26, 1850

This is Utah Crossroads Chapter – OCTA’s historic marker #HU-10A, located at Horseshoe Springs in Tooele County.

(GPS: N 40.61374 W 112.70805 )

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