Answered PRESIDENT'S OFFICE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST. OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, P. O. BOX B. Salt Lake U. T. July 26, 1888 Brother & Sister Atkin Dear friends I Received Wm vary interesting Letter of June 24 and Read it with much interest And as I have told you before I can ownly steal a few moments to scribble off a few lines in answer if I did not do this myself myany of my Letters would go unanswered for it is all ...

2 for a settlement He will Throw out all our Temples Tabernacles & Meeting Houses and Not count them in at all, for they should be free and He will have what we have turned over go up to the Supreme Court to decide upon And if they Declare the Law Constitutional I suppose the Government will Dispose of the property in some way but if the Law is Declaired unconstitutional the property is to be Returned to us But a great many Gentiles though the whole country say it is a Dam shame for the Government to rob us ...

3 On the flat cleared off the brush pitched 15 tents brought out the water in different Channels and prepared to Entertain Excursion- ist & citizens at $1.50 a day or $8 a week He has had so many He could not Lodge them or feed them ownly by setting 2 or 3 tables ^tables^ I was there 3 days it is splendid fishing in the Creek we caught about 100 while there I had Emma & Alice with me I go again Saturday Night to spend about a week ...

And was it not for keeping company with Mac & Addy I Expect I could go openly but I hope they will soon be free we have two New Judges Apointed & confirmed I hope they will be better than those Removed. Give my Love to all the family what Man was that who died at Price a few days since I suppose you have your harvest all up we are ownly just beging to cut our wheat I have board two Artecians Wells at Emmas I drew ...