Letter from Henry Smith Tanner, 1 December 1894
San Francisco, Cal., .
Prest. Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brother:
Replying to your recent
favors—I can say that I have found a
wholesale establishment where I can get
our Mission cards printed at the rates of
$1.00 per thousand in ten thousand lots, which
is nearly as cheap again as you can have
them done there, and three times as cheap as
we got our others printed for—which was $3.00
per thousand.
I am satisfied with the answer you
gave about colonizing California.
I am also willing to be as economical
as possible in the mission for I realize
the stringency in money matters, but if we
are successful here, we will have to have means
until we get a thorough foot-hold. The mission
is at a very low ebb and it will take a superior
power to raise it, but if we are successful here
we will have to shape circumstances and not
let circumstances shape us, for this people
