Salt Lake City, Utah, .
Presidents Wilford Woodruff, Geo. Q. Cannon & Joseph F. Smith
Dear Brethren: Having now almost completed my
travels (as planned a few years ago) in the various Stakes of Zion
and in all our missionary fields throughout the world (outside
the United States) this may be a fitting opportunity to make
a condensed report of my operations and travels during
the past ten years.
The historical labors which I have performed
directly for the Church actually commenced in 1888, when I
visited all important places connected with the history of
our people in the States of New York, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri.
In 1889 I visited a number of the settlements of the
Saints in Utah, Wasatch and Millard counties, gathering
historical information.
In 1890, for a similar purpose, I visited the
Cassia, Oneida and Bannock Stakes, in Idaho, and the
Tooele, Davis, Sanpete, and Emery Stakes, in Utah.
In 1891, I was regularly engaged by the Church as
a historian, and given letters of instructions and intro-
duction to presiding officers in the Church, after which I com-
menced a more thorough and systematic work, and going
much more into details. During the year I visited the several
wards in the Box Elder, Panguitch, Sevier, Summit, Morgan
Bear Lake and Cache Stakes.
In 1892, I visited all the wards and branches of the
Church in the St. George, Parowan, Beaver Malad Juab and Uintah ^Stakes^.
