Salt Lake City, Apr. 16th, [18]83. Brothers Young & Grant. Dear Brethren: I have received several short letters from you since you left Salt Lake City. The first was dated Jan. 11th at Man- nassa—you had set apart 5 mis- sionaries. The second at Sunset March 2nd—you had been to Moaencopy, had visited the villages of the Moquis; Br. Lot Smith wrote me an account of your visit among them, which I was very ...

day the Big Tabernacle was crow- ded and many were turned away as they could not get seats. We held about 4 meetings a day for nearly a week; we had two hard days work with Br. J. W. Y. who was finally sustained at the conference. We are going to fill up the Quorums of the Seventies, and appoint a man in the place of John Van Cott. We set apart 107 missionaries after conference who have gone to their fields of labor—a great many to the ...

as well as usual. G. Teasdal and Daulton just started on their Cherokee Mission. The Co-op has declared a dividend of 5% for the last 6 months. We are having our March weather in April being snow, rain and frost every few days. We expect the Commissioners every day. There are many who would like to send their kind love to you. I will stop as I think you do not like to read long letters as you write short ones. Your Brother in the Gospel, W ...

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