Letter to John Taylor, 12 January 1878
W. Woodruff,
Report regarding Jos. H. Ridges.
Nephi 12 Jan 1878
President John Taylor
Salt Lake City
Dear Brother
We arrived here all safe.
There is a subject that I wished to say
a few words about and that is ^to^ make
a Report about Brother Ridges on the
Organ. I called the day before I left at
the Tabernacle upon Brother Olson. He
gave me to understand that Brother Ridges
had not done any work during December
and but Little during November and
in fact no steady work on that Organ
hardly during any of the month that He
had charged the Church 8 dollars a day
and when He did work one third or one
half of the time ^was^ on chairs, desks and
