I want to say a few words
upon temporal matters. In my former letters
I stated the opinion of the brethren that the
company from Farmington could come to Arizona better in Febuary and March, but
the times admonish us that nobody can come
in the winter at all. They will be under the
necessity of waiting untill spring untill the
grass grows, before which time niether teams
nor stock can travel. We would be glad
for early emigration for the purchase of Saint
Johns needs both men and means to hold
it. We are also about purchasing the small
upper ditch, water and land which we could
not get when we made the other purchase.
We baptized one of the mexicans at St. Johns,
an honest man apparently and zealous in the
Gospel. I ordained him an elder and gave
him instructions and quite a number of the
mexicans at St. John attended our meeting at
the mexican brothers house and brothers Tenney
and Nail preached to them in Spanish and our
I want to say a few words
upon temporal matters. In my former letters
I stated the opinion of the brethren that the
company from Farmington could come to
Arizona better in Febuary and March, but
the times admonish us that nobody can come
in the winter at all. They will be under the
necessity of waiting untill spring untill the
grass grows, before which time neither teams
nor stock can travel. We would be glad
for early emigration for the purchase of Saint
Johns needs both men and means to hold
it. We are also about purchasing the small
upper ditch, water and land which we could
not get when we made the other purchase.
We baptized one of the mexicans at St. Johns,
an honest man apparently and zealous in the
Gospel. I ordained him an elder and gave
him instructions and quite a number of the
mexicans at St. John attended our meeting at
the mexican brothers house and brothers Tenney
and Nail preached to them in Spanish and our
"Letter to John Taylor and Council, circa February 1880," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 3, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/9QxZ