W Woodruff. St John purchase &c Dec 26 [18]79 Sunset Apache Co Dec 12th 1879 Prest. John Taylor Dear Brother, I write to say a messenger has just arrived from Colorado Meadows with a letter from Bro Tenney informing me that we have secured the purchase of all of St Johns except one water claim and 2 1/2 acres of land. Our purchase secures to us 3 water ditches all the land both sides of the river, and the town inc- luding ...

they were too late. We are coninually sending men out of our settlements to take and hold possession until we can get the emmigration of our people to ^take^ possession I understand there is a large emmigration of both man and beast of our people on the road, and as fast as they arrive and have no appointed destination I am counseling them to go to St Johns until we can get enou gh to take care of the place. I have been suffering for a few days with a severe cold upon ...