Letter to Francis Asbury Hammond, 11 December 1888
Salt Lake City, Utah, .
President F. A. Hammond,
Bluff City, San Juan Co.,
Dear Brother:- Your short note from
Moab under date of Nov. 28th, respecting the notice of Southern Ute Commission, of
their treaty with the Indians, etc., came duly to hand.
In addition to what we said when you were here at this city on your last
visit I would say, that in breaking up the homes of the Saints at Bluff City, Monte-
cello aod other places which comle in the section of country ceded to the Indians,
that great care should be taken to show to the government the full extent of the
losses and elxpense to the people in making their homes in that country, and now in
vacating the same, after years of toil and hardship that only such settlers are cap
able of enduring, a due and proper regard to this matter should he had, knowing that
the government is very tardy in acting upon such claims, also in the great desire o[f]
some to cut down and deprive the actual and worthy settlers of their just dues.
In making new homes we desire and call upon the Saints to not leave that
section of country, but that they locate themselves at the settlements of Burnham,
La Platta and such other places in the near vicinity of the Navajoe Indian Reserv
