Feb 4^th ^1863^

colored there are some with blue Eyes & Hazel Eyes and
vary light hair but they have never mixed blood with
any white men or other Indian tribes. they have had a
tradition that some good men will come from the west
and bring them the truth and they think we are the pelople
and they have come as ambasadors to see the people & to see if
we are the people they have been looking for they lighke the
people & the country and the improvem[en]ts which they see
here. they feel anxious that we should instruct them &
direct them in their affairs. Therir forefathers formerly
lived west of the Colorado but there Enemies drove them
East of the river. they have lived in stone houses for genera-
tion. The Brethren while going to see them passed through
a vary good country for a settlement well timbered with
tall white pine also white oak & cedar good soil & grass
a plenty of gaim such as wild Turkies, Deer, Antilope also
wild Honey. RPresident Young thinks of sending 100 Men
to form a colony there He said He did not wish to send
Men who did not wish to go. He recommended for the white
Men to take the same Number of Moquitch^s with them to plant
and built & prepare to move thereir families there. The compa-
ny who went to visit them consisted of 24 Men with abouth
650 Horses they travelled from the Colorado to the Moquich Nation
without a guide. They found them quite poor they had been
robed by the Navahoes, and had but few sheep ^but a good crop of grain^ & little provisi-
on left the brethren stoped ^3 days with^ about a week with them they
had a three days feast & offered up sacrafize & Prayers
that snow might fall upon the mountains to fill their basons
made of stone with water as they had no runing streams
or springs in there cities and when their snow water is gone
they have to go to the bottom land to wells to water there
flocks & for family use. The snow fell a foot deep the day
following theyir sacrafice they say snow always comes as
soon as they pray. Three of the Brethren stoped with them viz
Thales Haskell Ira Hatch & GJehiel MCconnell they remain
as Missionaries and three Four of their men accompanid

Feb 4th 1863 colored there are some with blue Eyes & Hazel Eyes and vary light hair but they have never mixed blood with any white men or other Indian tribes. they have had a tradition that some good men will come from the west and bring them the truth and they think we are the people and they have come as ambasadors to see the people & to see if we are the people they have been looking for they like the people & the country and the improvements which they see here. they feel anxious that we should instruct them & direct them in their affairs. Their forefathers formerly lived west of the Colorado but there Enemies drove them East of the River. they have lived in stone houses for generation. The Brethren while going to see them passed through a vary good country for a settlement well timbered with tall white pine also white oak & cedar good soil & grass a plenty of gaim such as wild Turkies, Deer, Antilope also wild Honey.President Young thinks of sending 100 Men to form a colony there He said He did not wish to send Men who did not wish to go. He recommended for the white Men to take the same Number of Moquitchs with them to plant and built & prepare to move their families there. The company who went to visit them consisted of 24 Men with about 50 Horses they travelled from the Colorado to the Moquich Nation without a guide. They found them quite poor they had been robed by the Navahoes, and had but few sheep but a good crop of grain provisions the brethren stoped 3 days with with them they had a three days feast & offered up sacrafize & Prayers that snow might fall upon the mountains to fill their basons made of stone with water as they had no runing streams or springs in there cities and when their snow water is gone they have to go to the bottom land to wells to water there flocks & for family use. The snow fell a foot deep the day following their sacrafice they say snow always comes as soon as they pray. Three of the Brethren stoped with them viz Thales Haskell Ira Hatch & Jehiel MCconnell they remain as Missionaries and Four of their men accompanid