[sideways text] A. E. Hinckley. Hackberry Jan 31 [18]83 [end of sideways text] For President John Taylor. Hackbery, Jan. 15th, 1883. President Woodruff. Dear Brother, I sit down to drop you a few lines. You will excuse the bad gram- mar, spelling, without any punctuation, passing over all, until we come to this place. On the 26th of Dec. last we arrived at this place, and found a portion of the Wallapais tribe of Indians here, and added to their ...

kind at present. He says that he may know better after a while, but until then this is his decision positive now. The tribe is fast wasting away with venereal diseases. There appears to be no place to commence with them, but to work with their neighbors. We have been to the Mojave tribe. They wish you to send some families to come and work with them, teach them better how to farm and school their children. They make two propositions—one, to go with some of them and clear some land, 20 miles below ...