W. Woodruff St. George aug 25 [18]86 Historian's Office, P. O. BOX 321, Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug 20 1886 St. George, Utah, Presidents John Taylor & George Q Cannon Dear Brotheren, Your letter of July 13 reached me at St George. My position here should have some explanation. I stayed 34 days in Ashley and the surrounding country when duety and safety seemed to require me to leave. Marshal Brooks of ...

Ashley he dare not arrest men there alone for the Indians had threatened his life if he did but now as he had two Marshals to help him and some backing of Anti Mormons and Apostates they were prepared to comence work it was beleaved by my friends that brought out papers to arest one L. A. and a number of Poligameist in the place and some friends who professed to understand the inside track were sure they were going to com^m^ence a raid on the early morning of the ...

through rugged mountains and deep Canyons to 9 mile creek Via Price station Castle Valley Huntington Castledale through Salina Richfield up clear creek canyon struck the southeren road below Cove Fort through Beaver and arrived at St George on the evening of the 7 of August having traveled 448 miles we traveled some days 30, 40, 45 and one day 50 miles a singular incident took place when we arrived ...

went over the mountain the Gilsom Boys started for the wagon to see what we had inside as the curtain was down but Colwell drove on and did not gratify therir curiosity when we came to the forks of the road we could all see that the travel all went over the hills but we felt very stongly impressed to go down the canyon and so concluded to do so and drove down we found the road washed out in several places and in one place we had to take our horses off and draw the wagon ...

in consequence of there not having time to fulfill the law in pasting up notices and &c. this I was glad of as it save the difficulty of the election and they would not be as well off as now, I was very much pleased to get your letter and of the apointment of Samuel Benyon I hope he will accept of it I dont know of a better choice I do not wish to injure Bishop Hatch he is a splendid Indian missionary and has done much good onong them and is ...

run the risk of doing worse my family arived in safety at the far mers word [ward] I pray God to bless you with health straingth peasce joy liberty and freedom fron all your enemies I remain your brother in the gospel of Christ W. Woodruff