which is all hills and rocks
and not more than one fourth
of the land can be cultivated
and but little is left, when
the machinery is paid for
and what a family consumes
has been taken away. My husband
has allso entered a homestead
up on the mountains for a
pasture, this spring, and
law requires him to reside on
and Cultivate same for 5 yrs
it can not but very little of it
be cultivated though. My Husband
is the Leader of ^the^ Choire of this
place and spends very much
of his time attending to it
and it can not be said that
he does ^not^ attend his duty in this
respect
for the truth of this
i refer you to either or all
of our nearest neighbors
who are well accuanted with
which is all hills and rocks
and not more than one fourth
of the land can be cultivated
and but little is left, when
the machinery is paid for
and what a family consumes
has been taken away. My husband
has allso entered a homestead
up on the mountains for a
pasture, this spring, and
law requires him to reside on
and Cultivate same for 5 yrs
it can not but very little of it
be cultivated though. My Husband
is the Leader of the Choire of this
place and spends very much
of his time attending to it
and it can not be said that
he does not attend his duty in this
respect
for the truth of this
i refer you to either or all
of our nearest neighbors
who are well accuanted with
"Letter from Kerstin Olofsdotter Petersen, 25 May 1897," p. 5, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 18, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/P6x1