Letter to Arza Erastus Hinkley, 9 March 1883
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
day 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