Salt Lake City, Utah, . Presidents John Taylor & Geo. Q. Cannon. Dear Brethren—It seems to me that I ought to make a report to you in relation to carrying out your instructions upon the subject of calling for volunteers to go to strengthen the San Juan Stake. As soon as I received your letter with the afore- said instructions, dated Jany: 14, 1886, and covering a letter from President F. A. Hammond, dated Dec. 23, 1885, from Bluff City, I called upon as many of the Twelve Apostles as had their liberty and could be reached. They came together accordingly and deliberated on the best means of engaging the attention of the Saints generally upon this subject. Each one of the Twelve had a portion of the Territory assigned to him, in which to operate. A certain quota of the desired number of colonists was de- cided on as proper for each stake to furnish, ac- cording to the ratio of its population. The brethren of the Twelve went among the people, and for a