Letter to Lot Smith, 14 December 1880
W. Woodruff,
St. John Mission, 200 families
should go there to settle.
Bishop Udall authorized to
recieve any tithing in Arizona:
for payment of St. John.
Salt Lake City, Dec. 14, 1880.
Mr. Lot Smith, Sunset, Arizona.
Dear Brother—Your letter of Nov.
24th arrived all safe, but I have
not had time to answer it before.
I was pleased to hear that you had a pros-
perous journey to the west and back.
I would have liked to have been with you
at St. George, but could not be. I have
thought perhaps that I might visit St. George
some time during the winter, to attend
to some Church business.
It is a
general time of health with us, with
few exceptions.
C. C. Rich is gaining
some.
O. Pratt's health is quite poor-
ly .
My health is quite good. I
got on the scales the other day. I
weighed 166 lbs., about 4 lbs. more
than I ever weighed before.
My
first wife a week ago had twenty five
