Letter from Thomas Edwin Ricks and William Frederick Rigby, 27 August 1888
Rexburg, Bingham Co., Idaho,
President Wilford Woodruff,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brother:
The Engineers and Right of Way
Agent of U.P.R.R. are here for the
pourpose of locating there line anfrom Eagle
Rock to the National Park, the line
located is running through some of our
Towns and especially through Rexburg and
they are also locating there Towns along
said line and they want to get Townsites and
build there Towns independently, adjacent
to our Towns, which is a new departure
and I fear will work a serious evil,
they want a Townsite adjacent to Rexburg
they want a portion of the Wilford Town-
site and they have allready located one Town-
site on Sall River, any Council or advice in
this matter will be thankfully received.
The politically Pot is boiling anthe Regi-
stering is in operation, but as yet none
