Answered Oct 21 [18]87 Stayner [end of sideways text] Salt Lake City Utah Oct 20th 1887 President Wilford Woodruff: Dear Brother. Pardon me for again intruding upon your time and attention, but the magnitude of the interest involved, and the exigency of its imme- diate handling must plead my excuse. The days of doubting and experiment in the ^Sorghum^ Sugar Industry are gone by and are superseded by actual knowledge and an output which places the business as one of the most impor- tant and for some years to come the most profit- able of all home industries. Seeing the fruition of my hopes and experiences in the success of the Fort Scott Factory and wishing to know of a surety with regard to the truth of the statements made, I took my son Horace with me and visited the works at Fort Scott; We saw, during three days we remained there, for ourselves the actual demonstration of the successful man- ufacture of sugar from the Sorghum Cane by