Salt Lake City, . Dear Brother Hinckley—I received your letter of Feby. 28, and have read it with care, and in reply would say that I do not expect you, in choosing a companion, to interfere with any president or bishop, or his counsellors, for there is generally plenty of persons in the country who are willing to labor in such a cause without interfering with any of the organizations of the Church. When I was in that country, we appointed quite a number of persons on the Lamanite mission. If you cannot get any of them to go with you, look up some man who is willing to go without interfering with any of the organiza- tions of the Church. Brother L. Harris has written to say that some one of the brethren has represented that he was in the favor of the chiefs of the Mohaves and that that was the cause of his being appointed to go there. I have un- derstood in your letters that it was his desire to settle there, and upon that ground we have appointed him, and Brother Mc Donald has informed me that he has appointed Brother Price W. Neilson and Perry Bingham to go with him. I got letters this morning from Jesse N. Smith and L. Harris, to say that they want