Letter to William Atkin, 26 December 1893
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brother Atkins:
I received your interesting letter of Nov. 16th,
but through the multiplicity of business the answer has been delayed.
I also got letters from Brother Thompsen upon the same subject of the
boiler and pipes, and am pleased that they are doing so well and are
satisfactory. Brother Ottenger made some big mistake in his calculation
about that water system; I hope it will do all right now.
We are having some curious times here of late. About the
time our State Bill passed the House with only five opposing votes, the
Clergymen of Utah met, and when Mr. McNiece made a motion to telegraph to
Washington, as clergymen, to oppose our State Government, two-thirds of
those present voted against him, saying they had had war enough and now
wanted a State Government. At the same time the Liberals met, dug a
grave and buried all their Liberal sentiments, and both parties sent
strong telegrams to Washington for State Government. Unless there is
some great change, it looks now as though Utah would soon become a
State.
President Cannon has just returned from New York where he
has been a short time on Church business. We are all well as usual; I
think I feel better than I did before I was sick. I think your account
of David Milne is quite enough. Remember me to your family and to my
freiends.
Your Brother,
Wilford Woodruff
