I write you in regard to the St. John purchase. It seem the Lord has indeed
moved upon those Barth Bros. I saw two of them
last night. "Saul" the oldest & the one, says he must
have 125 first class cows the 15th of Nov. without
fail, if those are furnished he will give un
til next May for the bal. about 475. If they
are paid after May 1st they must have calves
with them. He would blike bro Tenney and I
to take the 475 for five years, by paying
double the number at the end of the five years.
We could take them if thought best and
thus get more time if you & the Brethren think
best. The 125 cows must be paid. Would it not
be best to have that number driven down
by some of the Brethren this fall. I am quite
sure bro Tenney cannot make the payment
& it is almost out of the question to expect
those poor people who have settled there, to
pay anything like that amount, and Bro J. N.
I write you in regard to the
St. John purchase. It seem the Lord has indeed
moved upon those Barth Bros. I saw two of them
last night. "Saul" the oldest & the one, says he must
have 125 first class cows the 15th of Nov. without
fail, if those are furnished he will give un
til next May for the bal. about 475. If they
are paid after May 1st they must have calves
with them. He would like bro Tenney and I
to take the 475 for five years, by paying
double the number at the end of the five years.
We could take them if thought best and
thus get more time if you & the Brethren think
best. The 125 cows must be paid. Would it not
be best to have that number driven down
by some of the Brethren this fall. I am quite
sure bro Tenney cannot make the payment
& it is almost out of the question to expect
those poor people who have settled there, to
pay anything like that amount, and Bro J. N.
"Letter from John Willard Young, 2 September 1880," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/D936