Letter from Brigham Young, 16 October 1849
Great Salt Lake City
Elder Wilford Woodruff
Beloved Brother
We received lengthy communications, scraps and Papers from you,
by the last mail, which we have scarce had time to read, in full; business
has pressed so heavily upon us, but we understand your situation, and will
make all the communication at this time, that the nature of the case will admit.
Our mail is closed, and about ready to start. Our
General Epistle is in Type, by which you will learn General news, and we
shall send this, and many more communications by Express, to overtake the
mail in the mountains. Your friends are well, and the People generally,
and we would all be glad to see you here with your family.
Gather up all the Saints in the East, this Winter, and
make ready, and in the Spring come with them, and you will see great
improvements have taken place since you left home. Tell the brethren of
Capital to bring means to establish factories.
Say to the brothers Livingston, at Peterboro, that next
year there will be wool enough raised in the Valley, to supply a
considerable factory, that the cloth is needed here, that here is the place
for building Zion, that here is a better place to manufacture and make
money than any other place: and persuade one or all, and all such
to remove with delay to this place. Next Season we design a
settlement over the rim of the Basin on the South, where cotton,
rice and sugar cane will flourish, and from whence we can get
our supplies: but even at present, it would be far better to transport
the raw cotton from the States and have it manufactured here,
than to bring the cloth, for there are good water privileges in abundance,
and experienced workmen on hand. therefore start out a company
both for cotton and woollen manufacturing, this Winter ready for
spring's emigration with machinery, &c, and every facility will be
granted them in this place, which possible can be.
