Letter to John Taylor, 29 February 1880
Sunset, Apache Co. Arizona
President John Taylor
Dear brother:
Your letter of Feb. 20 has just come to hand
and before I recieved it I hade made my
calculations to go to St. John, Snowflake,
Round Valley and to visit the settlements with
brother John W. Young and to gather up all
the Tithing money of Arizona and start for
Utah the last of March via St. George and on to
Salt Lake, but your letter has changed my
course as I wish to attend the April Conference
which I would not have time to if I went east,
so I have made up my mind to start for St. George
on March 3rd. Lot Smith will take me there.
Before I got your letter I had given instructions
to the bishops to sell what tithing wheat there was
to the people and it has nearly all been sold
for the money and it is doing as much good
as it would if it had been loaned or given away
for Lot Smith is supplying most that cannot
pay for flour or meal, and again we have doors
open to frieght flour from Albequirke and the
