Letter to John Taylor, 11 April 1879
Mount Reffuge, Severe Co, Utah
President John Taylor & Council
Dear Brethren
As I am
100 miles from Either post Office or Telegraph &
have not heard a word from Utah or the outer
world since the 1 of March. The ownly thing I have —
heard was from a Calafornia Paper saying that there
had beeen an Extra session of Congress called. I have
had an anxiety to hear from your April Conference
and also to hear from my family. One object I have
in writing at the present time is this I consider myself
a sort of an Indian Missionary & I have a few sugges-
tions I would like to make First concerning the Key
of all the Settlements of the Saints East of the Colorado
is the ferries at Lees, Pierces, & Stones But as
Most all our travel is across Lees ferry and in
Ttalking with Br Johnson the ferryman & John W
Young I learn that there is a prospect of Lees ferry
going into the hands of a Gentile a sort of a Merchant
living at the ferry And it appears to us that it is of
Great importance to the Church that we should Hold
Possession of that ferry ie that the Church should
