Letter from Alfred W. Millgate, 25 April 1889
Ogden, Utah,
President Wilford Woodruff,
Salt Lake City.
Dear Bro:
I am instructed by the Board of Directors of the Standard Publishing
Company to write you in regard to Elder John Q. Cannon, who has been called
on a miission.
We shall be placed in very unfortunate position if we loie his val-
uable services at the presenttime, and we earnestly tope that you will feel
that you can extend the time od his departure until the time that we can fill
the vacancy which will thereby be craeated.
It is not long since Brother Anderson was taken from this company to per-
form other labors at Salt Lake City, aod it has only just recovered from the
loss of his services. Elder John Q. CannonRs work here has been entirely
satisfactory to us and we shall greatly regret to loose him at all, but we do
not see how we can possibly get along if he has to leave us before we can
get some competent man to labor in his position. We will make an immediate
endeavor to that end and we respectfully ask if you can suggest some one
