Your letter of Feb. 20 has just come to hand
and before I recieved it I hade made my
calculations to go to St. John, Snowflake, Round Valley and to visit the settlements with
brother John W. Young and to gather up all
the Tithing money of Arizona and start for Utah the last of March via St. George and on to Salt Lake, but your letter has changed my
course as I wish to attend the April Conference
which I would not have time to if I went east,
so I have made up my mind to start for St. George
on March 3rd. Lot Smith will take me there.
Before I got your letter I had given instructions
to the bishops to sell what tithing wheat there was
to the people and it has nearly all been sold
for the money and it is doing as much good
as it would if it had been loaned or given away
for Lot Smith is supplying most that cannot
pay for flour or meal, and again we have doors
open to frieght flour from Albequirke and the
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brethren get flour from freighting, so we are
getting doors open from every source we can
for breadstuffs. The tithing wheat was pretty
much all sold. I take with me what tithing
money there is in the Territory that I can have
time to get, which I will bring with me.
As long as I have permission I do not feel
willing to forego the pleasure of attending the
April Conference with you, and as the weather
and roads are such, I have no time to loose
in starting. John W. Young is with me, and was
going east to visit the brethren with me, but now
he will go alone. He wishes to be remembered
to the council. His factory is in operation and
doing good work. We are in the midst of our
quarterly conference which will close tonight.
The spirit of the Lord is with us, and we
are having a good time.
My love to the Council.
Your brother in the Gospel
W Woodruff
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W Woodruff March 9 [18]80
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