Dear Brother: I have made some enquiry
about the settlement with Lot Smith's by the committee.
I have been informed that Brother Bushman requires
him to vent the brand on his cattle; this is all wrong. No
man should vent the brand on his own cattle. His idea
has been carried to me that the Sub Committee want to
settle with him over again. My opinion is that one
settlement with a man, do able with, as he has been, ought
to be sufficient. I think Lot has been roughly handled.
If there has been any property made in that Institu-
tion, he has been the man most interested in making
it. I was there for two years with him, and he did
more work than any two men in the order. He cut the
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Hay, Wheat and Lucerne. He was at work on the water
ditches, and the raggedest man in Camp. I dont believe
there was a man went into the order but what took away
with him when he left, more than he took there. There has been
a great deal of prejudice against him from quarters where
it ought not to be expected. He has got his imperfections and
some of them strange ones; but he should not be persecuted.
He went to that country under the counsel of President Brigham
Young and he has done the best he could to carry out his
counsel. I think when the committee had once settled
with him they ought to let him alone and not continue
to annoy him, and the committee ought to let him have
the branding iron that his cattle are branded with.
I shall write to Brother Bushman upon this matter. I
would like you Brother Udall to do what you can to see
that the settlement with Lot is upon a fair basis. If he
has not been settled with in that manner the committee
should settle up with him. I want to know how he
stands. I wish you would write to me and let me know
how his affairs stand.
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My health is good and all is peace and
quiteet with us as far as our laws will allow.