6th
I took an exploring tour over with & [blank] we rode down
the Jordon down to Bakers place then turned south west
&towards the we visited a tract of land of some
400 Acres of level Farming land with the intention of
locating some Farming land it lies some 6 miles from the
. We returned & attended the meeting
at the at 6 oclok There being presient
Presentident & Elder G. A. Smith W. Woodruff
A. O. Smoot S. M. Blair & many others President Young
was chosen charman, Minutes of the former meeting [were read]
D. H. Wells chairman of committee reported that they had
laid the plan before president Young. He had not given his
view upon the subject but had kcome this evening to learn
what was going on & wished Capt to lay his plan
in a Brief manner before this meeting. Capt Hooper
did so and spoke at length laid his plan before the people
President Young then spoke & called a vote of the few present
to know who would enter into it heart, hand & means
about a dozen voted President Young then spoke & said
that he knew the feelings of the people & their spirit &
said that the people would trust their souls salvation
with him but would not trust their money with him
& that He had sent to the states to buy his own goods but
no man had put their money into his hands & said
now lay out this money for your benefit & mine He said
he had laid down ^groceries^ at about 16 cts per lb cotton cloth at
12 1/2 cts per yard. He did not recommend the present
system the people would not be satisfied with Capt Hooper & Capt
Hooper would not be satisfied with the people in the plan & it
would prove a curse to both parties, & we would see sorrow
in it He said the best thing we could do for the people would
be to raise sheep mix black & white wool make sheeps
gray & cloth the people. If this community had done
as much as I had to introduce sheep the whole
would make their own clothing I would make my
own clothing & wear sheeps gray it is good Enough for
me & my family & I should wear it but my Friends
give me fine clothes & I wear them out of respect to
them I told my family that when they had used
up what they had on hand I should not buy them any
more they must color with the products of this land I
should not buy any coloring stuffs from the states "I shall
not stop my labor untill we can make nails and Iron
I have sent for nail machines & intend to make our own
nails we have spent $20000 dollars to make Iron & if
those ingaged in the business had not had the devil in
them we should have made good Iron before now But
I mean to keep to work at it untill I accomplish it
I will here reveal a secret which I have not told Bell
& Livingston came to me last summer & asked my
advise they told a sald tale of losses & said they could not
sell sugar & coffee short of 65 cts cotton cloth 35 cts and
all things in proportion I told them to ask it for I
