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Day in the Life

Jun 15, 1889

Journal Entry

June 15, 1889 ~ Saturday

15 I spent the day at the farm we had as Near a cyclone
as I Ever saw on the farm it blew the fruit of the trees and
broke off some branches Asahel & Ovando started to go
up Parleye Canyon fishing at the Mouth of the canyon
Ovando cut his left hand vary Badly with glass &
they returned home I wrote 2 Letters to day to Sarah &
A hand pointing to the right Susan

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Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1863
3 Feb 1863 - 2 Jul 1939
693 mentions
Family
Beebe, Ovando Collins
14 May 1867 - 27 Dec 1928
188 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
702 mentions
Family
Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
360 mentions
Family

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Parleys Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
Woodruff Farm, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Letter from George O. Noble, 15 June 1889

[sideways text] Geo. O. Noble. City. Rec' June 15 [18]89 no answer [end of sideways text] Office of The Home Coal Company, 40 Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 15 1889 Pres. Woodruff, & Councel, Dear brethren I would humbley ask your canded attention, for a short time. as I feel confident, that we can furnish the colony of Sandwichislanders, the very best facilities, & for the least money, that it will be posiable to get for them; taking every thing in consider- ation. We can furnish any quantity of good land; ^with plenty of water^ that will produce, from 30 to 40 bu. of wheat, & from 40 to 80 bu. of oats per acre, & as fine roots & vegitables as are rased in Utah, also, first class fruits, especialy all kinds of small fruits; with first class facilities for the finest fishers in Utah.

Letter to Francis Asbury Hammond, 15 June 1889

Salt Lake City, U. T. . Pres. Francis A. Hammond, San Juan Stake. Dear Brother:— We are just in receipt of your long and interesting lette[r] of the 1st inst and are greatly pleased at its contents. The conference that you have held will, no doubt, do great good and awaken the people more thoroughly to their duties. The escape of the Saints from death at Mancos, afflicted as they have been with the scourge of smallpox, is very wonderful, and there is no doubt con- siderable truth in the statement of our enemies that our people's diet has a great deal to do with their recovery to health. It is gratifying to hear concerning your crops, your report being so much in contrast with reports which we hear from other places. There is a great dearth of water throughout the country. We shall call the attention of a committee, composed of three white brethren and three Islanders, to the statements which you make in your letter concerning the advantages of the region where you reside for the Sandwich Islander

Letter from William King, 15 June 1889

th 1889 President Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Dear Brother Your very welcome and interesting letter of May 27th was duly received and cont- ense noted. As regards my release I am perfectly satisfied to abide by your wishes I have no other desire than to labor where I can be of the most service, and with the blessings of the Lord we will be enabled to pay off all our indebetedness with the next crop which will truly be a great satis- faction to us all. I wrote you June 5th in which I refered again to my release one reason for my being a little over anxious about it was from a letter from my wife saying they were a little short of funds, my property not being in a shape that they could help themselves very much therefrom. But that is all right I trust the way will open for them to relieve their necessities. In the mein time with your permission

Letter from Arthur Stayner, 15 June 1889

Presidents Woodruff, Cannon & Smith: Dear Brethren: Permit me to respectfully lay before you the following reflec- tions upon the result of my interview yesterday: It is now nearly nine years since I first conceived the idea of building up the Sugar industry in Utah. Faithfully, ploddingly and patiently I have centralized my efforts upon that one object and have allowed nothing to stand in the way of its accomplishment. No sacrifice has been too great, no jeopardy too venturesome, no reasonable consideration too precious to reach the desired end. Everything I possessed or could control, savings, earnings, credit, comfort, pleasure, home itself have been placed upon the altar and immolated like Palissy's furniture to reach the blessing proposed. If I had failed and wasted my time and labor on an unprofitable under- taking fruitless of profitable result I would be willing to accept the reward of a fool should have, but with all the benefits, social, political and financial which belong to the business I have labored in plainly in sight, I may be forgiven if my heart is heavy with disappointment at the result of the interview yesterday. Let the intense interest I feel in this matter plead excuse for me in asking respectfully this question; Are there not some means of reaching a subscrip- tion of $3000 -- being $1000 each & paying 10% thereof, to manifest for this enterprise a recognition by the Presidency of this.

Letter from Alexander Findlay Macdonald, 15 June 1889

El Paso, Texas, . Pres. Wilford Woodruff, Box B. S. L. City, Utah. Dear Brother - Your favor enclosing the "Huller Contract." Lient Swatzka's propositions, with letters of instructions, reached me at Mesa, Arizon, on the 11th inst. just as I was leaving there; all O.K. At Tucson, I found many of our people had been summond as witnesses, from Pima on the Gila, against the persons accused of robbing the U. S. paymaster; the matter appears to be creating quite a stir; yet some think those now accused are not the right ones; I called at St. David and Deming. at the latter place I received from the R.R. the Cheese Factory ordered by Bp Wm. B. Preston, and stored it awaiting the arrival of teams to haul it into the coloney. Came on here yesterday, and find that it may be sometime next week (about 6 days) before I can finish the recording Etc. The harvest was about finished at Mesa, and busy thrashing: apricots, and peaches, ripe. Fruit, and crop prospects, bright business somewhat dull; especially in real estate as a reaction of the boom of a year ago, however improvements now going on, are of a permanent character, The weather very

Jun 15, 1889