23rd Thursday [FIGURE] I called upon President Kimball & asked him
for his back Journals. He said he would let me have them I called
upon President Young & He wias in company with Bishop Taylor
& John Sharp Feramorz Little & others making a contract about
diging the Tunnel to take out Webber River into Davis County
The follow conversation took place with President Young. He
said he would not undertake this Job unless the Bishops would bind
themselves to pay as fast as we get the Lumber for them and I
want $1000 pay kept in advance and the People must back this matter
up. Brother Taylor said they would do it the people are expecting to
back it up. This Tunnel will be one mile & a quarter long. President
Young asked Brother Taylor if He wanted us to commenced this
Job & go on with it. Brother Taylor said I do. President Young said
to John Sharp are you prepared to take hold & boss this Job as I
cannot attend to it. Brother Sharp said he would. Now Brother
Taylor you go & get your hands & go to that dam & build that & do
it well do not trust to any man to boss that Job who is not well
aquainted with the business. Now I want to give you some council
& instruction abut this Job get you a Gang of Hands & say to
them now I will give you so much interest for doing so much
on this canal. Let the bishops take their men & go with them
& have the canal staked off & say to the companies that those
who get their Job done first that they shall have a silver
Meddle. Brother Taylor asked shall we enlarge Kays settlement
Answer No what untill the people build up & improve what they
have got; what shall those do who are there & have no place to
build upon "let the people who have more Land than they can improve
to a good advantage divide with them. Now you will want some
shanties but I dont want any thing built but dug outs dig your holes
in the bank & cover over with slabs as they will [be] temperary buildings

Brother Elebrbeck will make out the bill of Lumber. It will take
23254 feet of Lumber for the bottom peaces of the Tunnel it will
cost $27,301.25 to dig out the Earth admitting that it is sandy Loam
as they expect it is. "I will give $2 per bushel for wheat delivered
at my upper Mill

A committy from the Poly Literary Musical society consisting of
W^m Edirngton, Hugh Finley ^&^ W^m G Mills called upon President
Young to consult his feelings upon the subject of continuing those
Entertainments. President Young said I do not like some things that
have been there most of the Sisters & Brethren have written vary
good Essays but some have been vulger but I have no objections
to their being continued if they can be conducted in wrRighteousness
I would like to have you get a globe revolving there & give Lectures
upon Geography History & science they all belong to our religion
and there is but few that can retain in there memory the geography
of the world so lectures would be interesting to many upon those subjects
I do not want to hear balde[r]dash, but I want to hear thoat
which is right & tends to good

Presidents B Young H C Kimball & J M Grant came into the
office at 2 oclok to hear History read they staid through the afternoon
& heard history read while reading James Gorden & Jacob
Wilder came in & reported that thirteen families had got the small
pox & that it was spreading. He received orders to keep the people at
home who had or had been exposed