Letter from Lewis Warren Shurtliff and Joseph Stanford, 6 January 1891
Ogden, Utah,
To the Central Board of the Church Schools
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, W. Woodruff, President
Dear Brother,
At a meeting of the Edu-
cational Board of the Weber Stake Academy, held Jan.
5th, the President and Secretary of said board were
instructed to lay before you brethren, by letter, a state-
ment of the embarassing circumstances we are placed
in financially with our educational institute now in
course of erection, and to ask that you kindly take
our situation under advisement and render us further
assistance if possible and agreeable.
At the time we let the contract
we anticipated, with the help already received from you,
$5000, and the promised support of our brethren through-
out the county, that we would have had means suf-
ficient to meet our money obligations as they became
due. But the heavy taxes assessed against the people
with the general depression in the money market and
the banks closing down on loans, have prevented many
