While writing to Brother Pratt, I felt
it was your due to receive a page also. I will begin
by saying your family are well, though I presume Sister
Benson writes you by mail. I paid a visit to Tooele
and Rush Vallies a week ago on Saturday and Sunday.
I find the city of E. T. look sorrowful. Brother Maughn
and some others are going to leave, probably for Cache
Valley; their crop is mostly destroyed by the Salt, worms &c
I went with Elders J. C. Little, J. W. Cummings and C
V. Spencer; we called upon Bro Rowberry—got a good
supper—looked over the saw and grist mills, find
good work in the flouring mills. He thinks he will
start in six weeks. He went with us to Tooele City—
spent the night; started early next morning for Rush
Valley; when we got into it we saw a great smoke, thought
it was the smoke of Johnson's settlement, but found it to
be the old barracks on fire and burnt down; it had
been burning 24 hours or so: we hunted two hours, and
found Johnson & Co in six shanties near the mountains,
each cabin 30 rods apart in the best Indian's hole you
ever saw; two Indians could have scalped the whole
settlement and not alarmed any one until they felt an
arrow, for they were surrounded in the brush and cedars
While writing to Brother Pratt, I felt
it was your due to receive a page also. I will begin
by saying your family are well, though I presume Sister
Benson writes you by mail. I paid a visit to Tooele
and Rush Vallies a week ago on Saturday and Sunday.
I find the city of E. T. look sorrowful. Brother Maughn
and some others are going to leave, probably for Cache
Valley; their crop is mostly destroyed by the Salt, worms &c
I went with Elders J. C. Little, J. W. Cummings and C
V. Spencer; we called upon Bro Rowberry—got a good
supper—looked over the saw and grist mills, find
good work in the flouring mills. He thinks he will
start in six weeks. He went with us to Tooele City—
spent the night; started early next morning for Rush
Valley; when we got into it we saw a great smoke, thought
it was the smoke of Johnson's settlement, but found it to
be the old barracks on fire and burnt down; it had
been burning 24 hours or so: we hunted two hours, and
found Johnson & Co in six shanties near the mountains,
each cabin 30 rods apart in the best Indian's hole you
ever saw; two Indians could have scalped the whole
settlement and not alarmed any one until they felt an
arrow, for they were surrounded in the brush and cedars