five thousand dollars, in traveling over all these counties gathering
and writing their history. For a year and a quarter had Bro
engaged at $100 per month, and all travelling
and hotel expenses &c ^paid;^ and Elder seven months
at $75 and expenses. They were constantly from home traveling,
collecting history and obtaining biographical matter, while I myself
have been out most of the time of the last two and half years
on this same work; which, gGiving me even a small wage to
support my family, and my expenses, apart from officers
at home, ^this^ will show that I have spent from $5000 to 7000
in making this book, which was ^has been^ far more costly and
laborious to make than the History of ; as Tthat
^book^ was a growth of years in my own hands ^and^ which was produced
in my own closet; and mMoreover I had a committee to
help me in every way and to petition for me for extension of
time and further appropriations: to that Committee—Col. ,
Gen , , and Judge
I owe much, while on this Northern History I have
had no such help, excepting in the personal help of those already
named.
To the cost of making this book as shown above
there must be added the printers and binders and engravers
bills (2000 vols of 1000 pages), giving a total of from ten
to fiften thousand dollars.
Had I know at the onset that the Northern
cities and counties would not have given me generous
help by appropriations, following the example of Salt Lake
City, I would never have undertaken the work, for
I knew by experience something of the labor and cost
of making large volumes of histories of a young nation,
like our modern Israel with his colonizations all over
this western country, the record of which had to be
gathered and constructed into form.
five thousand dollars, in traveling over all these Counties gathering
and writing their history. For a year and a quarter I had Bro
engaged at $100 per month, and all travelling
and hotel expenses he are paid; and Elder seven months
at $75 and expenses. They were constantly from home traveling,
collecting history and obtaining biographical matter, while I myself
have been out most of the time of the last two and half years
on this same work;, giving me even a small wage to
support my family, and my expenses, apart from officers
at home, this will show that I have spent from $5000 to 7000
in making this book, which has been far more costly and
laborious to make than the History of ; as that
book was a growth of years in my own hands and produced
in my own closet; Moreover I had a committee to
help me in every way and to petition for me for extension of
time and further appropriations: to that Committee—Col. ,
Gen , , and Judge
I owe much, while on this Northern History I have
had no such help, excepting in the personal help of those already
named.
To the cost of making this book as shown above
there must be added the printers and binders and engravers
bills (2000 vols of 1000 pages), giving a total of from ten
to fiften thousand dollars.
Had I know at the onset that the Northern
cities and counties would not have given me generous
help by appropriations, following the example of Salt Lake
City, I would never have undertaken the work, for
I knew by experience something of the labor and cost
of making large volumes of histories of a young nation,
like our modern Israel with his colonizations all over
this western country, the record of which had to be
gathered and constructed into form.