Farmington, President Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Brother: I have rec'd yours of June 19 and Aug. 11. In your first you state you have been informed that I owe Bro. Farnsworth. I do not owe him one cent according to the decision of the High Council. There is this little quirk about it. Bp. Brinkerhoff or Farnsworth owed me eighty-seven dollars. They both admitted it to be Farnsworth. When the Brethren, James B. Ashcroft and John Q. Adams went to pay him the money for me according to the decision of the high council, they asked him if he was willing to credit the eighty seven dollars he was owing me, he replied that he was and had tried to get the high council to consider it in their decision, but they had refused. You say that you understood from me that I had paid Farnsworth. You must You must surely have got that understanding because I stated it so plainly. I refer you to James B. Ashcroft of Ramah, New Mexico or John Q. Admams of Tuba City, Ariz- ona for the correctness of this statement. What Bro. Bigham? heard in regard to my turning out families and burning their habitations, as you state in your last communication is not correct. It may have originated from this. When I returned from Mexico some three years ago I found Isaac Duffin was living at the dairy, by permission of my son J. H. Smith. I told my son I regretted that he had allowed them to come their (there) because he had a bad record in Utah. Afterwards his brother-in-law Wm. Lamb came to the ranch and asked for imployment, stated that he had been poorly raised, hoped I would be a father to him and teach him. I employed him, then he brought his brother, Preston Lamb, from Utah. They by my permission built a little one roomed log house on the ranch one mile and a half south of the dairy. Duffin stealing nails and lumber and in fact nearly all the building material from the dairy. It was not so that I could visit the ranch, but I had learned how Duffin was conducting himself. I told Lamb I wanted to get Duffin off from the ranch— I did not know then that they were stealing cattle and horses from the ranch. Lamb told me that his sister wanted to leave Duffin and wished to know how much I would give her for the house. I told him that I would give her every cent it was worth, if Duffin would promise not to come back to that section of the country. Duffin left with his family and went to Apacha county. I afterwards was convinced that the Lambs were stealing from me and other ranches near by so I discharged Lamb. Then my sons J. H. and H. B. Smith said I had ought to get him off the ranch. I asked what harm can he do? if he stole the young calf, they would go back to their mothers with his marks on them and I would know them. Jed says "Their mothers will never trouble them." I says, "You don't mean to say they will kill the Mother." I had heard of such things being done. Jed said, "That's just what they will do." Now you can not get any good proof against a man on an unmarked calf and a dead mother. Your not being a cow boy I tell you of this diabolical way they have of increasing their herds. I was paying Lamb ninty dollars per month, giving him feside the use of all the land he wanted to plant and all the cows he choose to milk, and there were many other pickings from the ranch. He came to me poor and went away better off than any of the Lambs I ever knew or heard of. He acknowledged that no one had ever been as kind to him as I. He agreed to leave the the ranch altogether. I offered to furnish hands to help him gather his stock for nothing. They went away, stayed during the winter but reported that they would come back and take possession of the dairy property, that I had more than I could hold.