St George Temple Elder Erastus Snow Salt Lake City Dear Brother I receved your Welcome letter of Feb 14, and was glad to lear[n] from you Our work in the Temple continues mostly up to its full capacity. On the 12 we baptzed 1582 & on the 5, 1119. We have had 214 & 226 endowents in a day and the interest continues on the increase John W Young has been here near two weeks I spent Mondy the 11th with him and a few others rolling down rock & making a wall on the south side of the Dug way near Middleton and then worked at yesterday to finish it up so teams could not run off there Dug was North of Washington should be sent in the same manner I expect he will start for Salt Lake some day this week It is a general time of