_Tuesday, 22_.--President Rigdon went east with a company, and selected some of the best locations in the county, [3] and returned with a good report of that vicinity, and with information of {37} valuable locations which might be secured. Following awhile the course of the company, I returned to camp in Robinson's Grove, and thence went west to obtain some game to supply our necessities. We discovered some antiquities about one mile west of the camp, consisting of stone mounds, apparently erected in square piles, though somewhat decayed and obliterated by the weather of many years. These mounds were probably erected by the aborigines of the land, to secrete treasures. We returned without game. [Sidenote: Varied Movements of the Prophet's Company.] _Wednesday, 23_.--We all traveled east, locating lands, to secure a claim, on Grove Creek, and near the City of Adam-ondi-Ahman. Towards evening I accompanied Elder Rigdon to Colonel Wight's, and the remainder of the company returned to their tents. _Thursday, 24_.--This morning the company returned to Grove Creek to finish the survey, accompanied by President Rigdon and Colonel Wight, and I returned to Far West. _Friday, 25_.--The company went up Grand River and made some locations. In the afternoon they struck their tents and removed to Colonel Wight's. _Saturday, 26_.--The company surveyed lands on the other side of the river opposite Adam-ondi-Ahman. _Sunday, 27_.--The company locating lands spent the day at Colonel Wight's. _Monday, 28_.--The company started for home (Far West), and I left Far West the same day in company with Brother Hyrum Smith and fifteen or twenty others, to seek locations in the north, and about noon we met President Rigdon and his company going into the city, where they arrived the same evening. [Sidenote: Birth of Alexander Hale Smith.] President Hyrum Smith returned to Far West on the 30th, and I returned on the 1st of June, on account of my family, for I had a son born unto me. [4] {38} [Sidenote: The Prophet's Return to Adam-ondi-Ahman.] _Monday, June 4_.--I left Far West with President Rigdon, my brother Hyrum and others for Adam-ondi-Ahman, and stayed at Brother Moses Dailey's over night; and on the morning of the 5th, went to Colonel Lyman Wight's in the rain. We continued surveying, building houses, day after day, for many days, until the surveyor had completed the city plat. _Monday, June 11_.--President Joseph Fielding was married to Hannah Greenwood, Preston, England. _June 16_.--My uncle, John Smith, and family, with six other families, arrived in Far West, all in good health and spirits. I counseled them to settle at Adam-ondi-Ahman. _Minutes of the Meeting which Organized the Stake of Zion called Adam-ondi-Ahman_.