Letter from Abraham Owen Smoot and Wilson Howard Dusenbury, 25 March 1893
PROVO, . 189[3]
President Wilford Woodruff
and ^Gen.^ Board of Education,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brethren:—
Replying to your letter of the 17th inst;
The undersigned for and in behalf of the Brigham Young Academy
herewith submit reports from the Treasurer, and the Principal,
showing the present financial and educational condition of the
Institution, to the consideration of which we invoke your es-
pecial attention.
Preliminiary to said examination we submit the following;
When in the year 1890 the heirs of the late Prest. Brigham
Young relinquised by deed all their interest and control of
certain properties in this City, which he had transfered to the
Trustees of this Academy; and a new Board of Trustees had assumed
control thereof, the demands for better accommodations than the
Z.C.M.I. Ware-house affordeed, swere such that the Trustees could not
consistently refuse to begin the erection of the building upon
the foundation theretofore ladid.
A careful estimate of the value of the property was made
