2nd Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning. I attended
Meeting in the Tabernacle through the day President Young
Preached in the forenoon upon Temporal things. He wished
the People to get up their ox teams now the ground was
frozen and draw rock for the Temple so the stone masons
could be kept Employed. He wished to send 300 teams
or 1200 yoakke of Oxen to the States next spring to
bring up the poor and Machinery to this valley He wished
the people who had Means to unite & send to the States &
buy twenty Carding Machines, and spining Ginneys
we also want more Nail Factories. We want a machine
that will cut 20 penny nails and we want much machinery
in this Territory to be prepared to live within ourselves &
make all we consume for our trade will soon be cut off
from the Nations. I intend to send for a Machine to
make cards He treated mostly upon these subjects. In the
Afternoon H. S. Eldridge spoke followed by Lorenzo Young
& President Heber C. Kimball who spoke upon the same
subjects. I met with G. A. Smith & F. D. Richards at 5 oclk
for Prattyer. We agreed that when any one of the Quorum
of the Twelve were present at our time of prayer if he was
alone He should go and dress and pray at the Altar as a
representative of the Quorum. W. Woodruff Prayed &
G. A. Smith was Mouth. I attended meeting at the 14th ward
Levi Richard spoke upon Machinery and Manufacturing
I followed him & spoke upon the same subject fFollowed by
F. D. Richard Br Harrison gave out an Appointm[en]t for teaching Architeck
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