Letter from Lewis Warren Shurtliff and Joseph Stanford, 16 June 1894
Ogden City Utah,
To President Woodruff and the members of the church board of
education, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Dear Bretheren,
We your bretheren in the interest of Church
Schools beg most respectfully to represent, that, for several years
our experience has unmistakeably demonstrated the fact that it
is impossible to maintain our academy, to pay the faculty and
meet incidental expenses, from the proceeds of tuition charges.
As a board we have no other prospect but that of being compelled
to close the doors of the Weber Stake Academy the coming year
unless we receive a promise or guarrantee of financial assistance
We appreciate the position of the church board of education in these
times of general financial depression and under such circum-
stances dislike very much to ask fo aid towards the pay-
ment of teachers, but necessity compels us to do so.
The attendance of pupils the first three terms of the past school
year was much larger than in any previous year and we
are more than ever confirmed in our impressions that such
an institution of learning for the youth of our church in Ogden
City and Weber County has become a necessity and a failure
to further conduct it would be regarded as ^a^ calamity by a large
number of the Saints throughout this Stake of Zion. The local author-
