Letter to Canute Peterson, 24 May 1882
Salt Lake City, .
President Peterson.
Dear Brother—There is one
subject which Brother Richards and
myself forgot to converse with you upon
while at Ephraim. It is this—Pres-
ident Taylor wrote to A. O. Smoot to go
to Pleasant Valley and organize that
branch, and he wrote to you to do
the same, forgetting probably that he
had written to Brother Smoot upon
the same subject. He got ready to
go and organize them, but heard
that you had organized them. Now
the question arises, Where should
that branch belong? To Ephraim,
or Provo? We have decided, in
council, that they should be united
with Utah Stake, for the following
reasons—as they are all colliers and
a railroad runs to their place, they
can get on a car any day in the
