Letter from Arthur Stayner, 22 August 1887
President Wilford Woodruff and Brethren of the Twelve:
Dear Brethren;
I am constrained to address you and ask your
sanction and approval to my opening up and publishing
a Paper dedicated to the interests of Producers generally,
but especially the Farmers. During the past few years,
I have given much attention to the interests of Agriculture,
and I have long been convinced of the utility, acccoun-
ting to a necessity, of such a publication. My interest
in behalf of the Producer aids me to see that there are
not within the reach of the Farmers of this Territory the
means of instruction and learning peculiar to their
business that are ordinarily accessible to persons of
their class in other States and Territories. There
being no local publication devoted to their interests
exclusively they are at the mercy of foreign adven-
turers, who palm off upon them cheap and com-
paratively worthless publications which are gotten up
