February 6, 1887 {Sunday}[FIGURE]
The water wheel of Brother Thompson Mill was ready to tumble
to pieces it was a 20 foot breast wheel it had been lying still
3 weeks the people wanted their flower flour & we wanted to get
it fixed before we returned, one third of the Bushels were filled
with ice which would weigh about 2000 lbs we cut out about 1000
lbs & had to roll the wheel with the 1000 lb in which was Excedingly
labrious we labored hard all day untill in the night we became
vary weary & sore with hard lifting went to bed vary weary
8 I learned that the Supreme Court of the US had
reversed the decision of the Utah Courts in the Lorenzo Snow
case And that the Law could not give them
permission to have but one court. I wrote 2 letters
to day to President John Taylor and John Jaques
I sent John Jaques a Draft on the Bank for $200
with James Jack name on the back. I requested him
to draw it & put it in the Bank for me to draw as I
^^ needed I received 6 Letters this Evening from Jaques Gibbs, Lindsay, Kemp, Tienney, ^&^ Roskelley
February 6, 1887
{Sunday} [FIGURE]
The water wheel of Brother Thompson Mill was ready to tumble
to pieces it was a 20 foot breast wheel it had been lying still
3 weeks the people wanted their flour & we wanted to get
it fixed before we returned, one third of the Bushels were filled
with ice which would weigh about 2000 lbs we cut out about 1000
lbs & had to roll the wheel with the 1000 lb in which was Excedingly
labrious we labored hard all day untill in the night we became
vary weary & sore with hard lifting went to bed vary weary
8 FIGURES I learned that the Supreme Court of the US had
reversed the decision of the Utah Courts in the Lorenzo Snow
case And that the Law could not give them
permission to have but one court. I wrote 2 letters
to day to President John Taylor and John Jaques
I sent John Jaques a Draft on the Bank for $200
with James Jack name on the back. I requested him
to draw it & put it in the Bank for me to draw as I
[FIGURE] needed I received 6 Letters this Evening from Jaques
Gibbs, Lindsay, Kemp, Tenney, & Roskelley
"Journal (January 1886 – December 1892)," February 6, 1887 - February 10, 1887, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 19, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/ngQp