Letter from Arthur Stayner, 19 April 1888
Received April 21 [18]88 [end of sideways text]
Salt Lake City
April 19th 1888
Prest. Wilford Woodruff
Dear Brother:
Very respectfully I submit the following:
I have the opportunity of purchasing certain lands
on the Provo Bench, (the point which I have selected as the
most suitable to establish the first plantation and factory
for sugar) surrounding, or contiguous to, two sections of
University lands, costing something less than $15000$—
an average of $1700 per acre; also of purchasing for $10,000
the water right of the Provo Woollen Mills, sufficient to
irrigate 5000 acres. By purchasing this land I can
secure the two sections of University land. An Eastern
party is trying to secure these very lands in order
to introduce a colony of strangers upon that very section
of country.
With a little help from you I can secure
this location. The brethren who have promised
money on the Sugar industry will [keep] their promises
