Letter from Charles William Stayner, 21 February 1891
C. W. Stayner
Washington D. C.
Rec Feb 29 [18]91
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NORTHERN STATES MISSION
Of the
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS.
HEADQUARTERS. No. Box 474 STREET,
Washn D. C. Feb 21st 1891.
President Wilford Woodruff
Dear Sir and Brother;
I trust you will pardon me, but the
Saints in this Mission are so scattered
and many of them so poor, that they are
as yet unable to support the Mission
Fund, sufficiently to pay the expenses re-
quired for our three semi-annual Con-
ferences. We hold one in Kansas, one
in Indiania and one in W. Virginia
or Pennsylvania ^each Spring and Fall.^ As you know, these
points are quite distant from each other
and the methods of reaching them rather
more expensive then a direct trip across
the Continent; as we have to pay local routes
some of the way, and it is ^also^ high on branch
roads compared with through transporta-
tion. I am sorry to trouble you, as I had
hoped to make the mission entirely selfsustaining
by this Spring, but must again trespass on
your goodness for an allowance for these conting-
ent expenses, to enable me to visit the Conferences,
