Letter from Erastus Snow, 19 August 1878
Ephraim
To Elder W. Woodruff
for the use of President
Taylor & Council
Brethren
The subject of
procuring more water for the
city of St. George and to
supply the St. George Temple
and grounds belonging thereto
has long occupied my thoughts
and various projects has been
suggested among which the
one most feasabble to my mind
was the one for bringing the waters
of cottonwood out of the Kanyon
and over the hills to St. George; this
Stream rises in Spring from
Springs under the foot of Pine
Valley Mountains 16 miles north
of St. George and runs through
a deep rocky Kanyon into the
