Salt Lake City ^Ashley Fork^ Utah, Presidents John Taylor and Geo. Q Cannon Dear Bretheren I have ben a month on the road traveling to this place with Emma and her children. We came to have an out in the mountains and to visite Henry & Nellie my nephew and Daughter. Of course we have tried to keep by ourselves on our journey as far as circumstances would permit On our way here we fell in with my son David returning from Salt Lake with freight, and through some of his company it was know that I came into this valley. I am stopping with Henry who is nearly out of town by himself. We camped the night before our arrival on uintah bridge, and the Marshal Brooks, he was on the way to Salt Lake for various purposes; some say to entre suit against the canal company & the to get papers against Polygamest. He camped on one side of the road and I on the other; he was anxious