Salt Lake City, . Elder L. Harris. Dear Brother I have received your letters of April 8 and May 5, also one from Brother McDonald of April 25, and one from Brother Bingham of April 24, all treating upon the subject of your mission to the Mohaves and your dif- ficulties with them. I have been travelling so much of late and absent from the city, that I have not had time before to answer the letters. I was really sorry to hear of your bad luck among the Mohaves. I was in hopes that you could have made a permanent settlement among them. It was upon that ground that we gave you the fit out. It seems that the Mohaves represent that you promised to feed them, give them goods, flour, sugar, bacon, &c., and that it was upon that ground that they wanted you to settle among them. We should not have attempted to found a settle- ment among them for that purpose alone, but to teach them to cultivate the earth and to teach them the Gospel. It appears to me that you missed it in dealing out all your provisions to them in the first start, for that would deprive you of having anything to live on yourselves, but would lay a foundation for trouble in the beginning, for neither we nor you could carry on a mission of that kind, to carry provisions so far to feed a whole tribe, and if you began to feed a few, and could not feed the whole, there would