Corbonca Elder Woodruff Dear Brother As an apology for our long silence, we write this letter, for no doubt you are aware, that there would be a great croud of buiseness on our hands, ^as^ soon has the Presidency, all left winter qurters, the people are scattered over so great an extent of territory, that it requires an immence labour, to communicate with them, and in a great measure it has been done through others, there his about 50 Branches organised, all doing well, has a general thing, except some slight touches of the big head, which his a natural conscequence, where men, forget the work of the Lord, and seek to build up them selves, on the 9th of December, all the Soldiers that had come from Calafornia and the Valley with their wives and famelies were feasted at the tabernace on a general collection of good things, provided by the Saints for the occation, it was certainly equal to the dinner provided for the pioneers at the pass which you now was hard to beat, after the Soldiers had all feasted, the weather being very cold, they praised the Lord in a dance, the after an hour spent in this way several apropreate addresses were made and all felt, first rate, the Seventys held a meeting on the Sunday and Monday following, which were well attended not withstanding the severe wether, unity and the good spirit prevaded these gatherings, they ajournd to the new tabernacle on Pigeon, on the last Saturday in December, Brother Egan an 12 others arrived here from the Salt Lack City, on Thursday, the 7th he left the city on the 13th of September ^October^. President Young arrived there on the 20 of September President Kimbal on the 24th, a conference had been held, on ^motion^ of Elder Pratt the Presedency as organised here was unanimosly acknowledged, also my father as Patriarck, Charles C. Rich as President in the Valley, John Young and Erastas Snow counsellors, arrangemengts were made ^for^ inclosing and additional field of