made a call for sixty teams twelve tons of flour and 40 extra
teamsters to go into the mountains to help in the back emigration
of Hand-cart companies.

General Conference of the Church
held
In the Bowery Great Salt Lake City
October the 6th 1856

The Conference commenced at 10 o'clock AM

There were present on the Stand of
the
Presidency: Brigham Young Heber C. Kimball and
Jedediah M. Grant.

Of the Twelve: Wilford Woodruff Lorenzo
Snow and Franklin D. Richards who had just returned
from the Presidency of the European mission

The other quorums of the Church were also numerously
represented on the Stand with the Returned Missionaries
and there was convened together a vast congregation

After singing and prayer President Young
said our Conference is now open and the first business is to
gather together the clothing shoes flour and the teams and
man them and start them back into the mountains
after the Handcart and other companies who are back on
the Plains. They were below Laramie some of them

The following articles were brought
in to send back to feed clothe and help the poor Saints

Twenty sidx thousand six hundred and eighty
pounds of flour thirty one bushels of onions ^1211 pounds of meat^
five bushels of oats eight ^188^ dollars in cash one hundred and six
blankets fifty three coats fifty vests twenty nine shawls

made a call for sixty teams twelve tons of flour and 40 extra teamsters to go into the mountains to help in the back emigration of Hand-cart companies.

General Conference of the Church held In the Bowery Great Salt Lake City October the 6th 1856

START HERE The Conference commenced at 10 o'clock A M

There were present on the Stand of the Presidency: Brigham Young Heber C. Kimball and Jedediah M. Grant.

Of the Twelve: Wilford Woodruff Lorenzo Snow and Franklin D. Richards who had just returned from the Presidency of the European mission.

The other quorums of the Church were also numerously represented on the Stand with the Returned Missionaries and there was convened together a vast congregation.

After singing and prayer President Young said our Conference is now open and the first business is to gather together the clothing shoes flour and the teams and man them and start them into the mountains after the Handcart and other companies who are back on the Plains. They were below Laramie some of them.

The following articles were brought in to send back to feed clothe and help the poor Saints

Twenty six thousand six hundred and eighty pounds of flour thirty one bushels of onions 1211 pounds of meat five bushels of oats 188 dollars in cash one hundred and six blankets fifty three coats fifty vests twenty nine shawls