Letter to George Albert Smith, 12 July 1859
G. S. L. City,
4 p.m.
Bro. G. A. Smith,
As Brother Jaques has given you most
of the news, I will only write a few lines. The army
flour inspectors are condemning nearly all the flour
taken there under the Holliday contract. We cannot
ascertain what amount of forged drafts upon U. S.
were found upon in the possession of Brewer and
Mc Kenzie. Report says from $5000 to $500,000. Who
is connected with them in it? we have not learned.
When Col. Crossman found that Mc Kenzie had a hand
in it, he jumped up and down like a crazy man,
saying— "By —, we well make this stick on B. Y.
this time." Our lawyers will not go to Camp Floyd
to argue any case. Wilson says he thinks Cradle-
baugh and Sinclair will join issue against Bu-
chanan and Judge Black. If they do, the executive
of the nation must be in danger.
Sunday evening I met in council, at
the President's office, with the Twelve and about a dozen
from the south. Nothing special.
Stout and Blair are writing to the Governor their reasons
for not going to Camp Floyd. A brother, a Collier, I do
not know his name, has found a fine bed of coal on Chalk
Creek, on the Weber, about 10 miles from the mouth of
Echo Kanyon. There are three veins, one above another, each
