Letter from John Brooks Wasden, 21 December 1891
To Prest Woodruff
Salt Lake City
Dear Brother
Possiably you will remember
me leaving Salt Lake City on Aug 2nd of this
present year bound for Mexico ariveing at Deming
N.M. I got a conveyance and went over into
Mexico and was there advised to try to get work
on the Railroad or wherever I could as a failure
in the present season's crops would make it very
bad for a large family like mine to do anything
there for a while yet. therefore by hard squeezeing
I got to this place about a month ago. I have
talked to Prest Layton about my circumstances
He says that I have got exactly at the right place
there is plenty of good land and water to be had
here cheap I have strugled hard for the past four
months working at anything that I could find to
do labor being very Scarce and wages so low that
if we had not pedled off our bed clothes and other
clothing we would not have had bread. the great
