TO THE SAINTS SCATTERED ABROAD—GREETING: BELOVED BRETHREN AND FRIENDS: After so long a time, we have heard direct from Elder LYMAN WIGHT, and have learned his whereabouts. He is in Texas, and I think on one of the tributaries of the Colorado River, about seventy five miles from the city of Austin. He has addressed a pamphlet of sixteen pages to the Latter Day Saints, scattered abroad, and to every body else, containing his appeals to them, and the cogitations of his own mind. If the Lord ...

who has examined the land & is acquainted in stat of Durango. Sais Durango is the richest State in America. this land is all in graded their are many natural meadows. Some of them containing as high as 500 Acres, redy for cultiva- tion. land lays well. can be drove over in a buggy. it is well watered, by mountain Streams. on it are many good watertowers it is warrented to cut 20,000 feet lumber per acre. timber mostly Pine, Oak, Cedar &c lumber there I am informed is worth from $30 to ^$^50 per ...

189[3] you or your ageants to examine it thoroughly. it certainly is desireable for a colony Abut 3 months since a R. R. was completed to Durango, & they are now Surveying & locating a continuance of said Road through said lands it will be continued to Maitzland on pacific cost, & they inted completing it in two years you have a continneous line of R. R. from United States to Durango. I make the above Statements from what I believe to be reliable authority. as for reference I refer you to Judge ...

San Antonio, Tex. 220 San Pedro, Ave. Aug 21 [18]98. Dear Sir: Two Summers ago I made you an offer of two large Oil Paintings (the largest in the United States) which you said "you could not avail yourself of at present." I wish now to make you another offer, & if I am encouraged into the belief that I shall be successful with the sale, I will send a small picture as a sample for inspection. The two large ...

San Antonio (Austin,) Texas, March 2 [18]98 To The Elders of The Mormon Church of Latter Day Saints Salt lake City, Utah. Dear Friends and Brothers in Humanity: The Spirit has moved me to address you, although from this far away place and in these troublesome times I believe the faithful of your church and more especially the native born Americans who have their countrys good at heart as well as all christians of whatever denomination who believe in the laws of Moses and the ...

P/S. There are so many false rumors and evan publications as well as cablegrams, that are attributed as passing in Foreign countries, and the same is used when they are actually occurring in these United States. China, Kiow Chow bay, Cuba— Turkey,—, as well in many personal and local affairs. Home our army (regular) as well as navy is vastly in numbers ^composed^ of that Foreign element, and even to-day the militia is fast being or passing under such controll— The President Wm ...

preparing for a tour of 1300 miles to the state of N Y untill the 3rd of Sep when I started with my wife and two small children for that place and after visiting a numerous host of relitives and friends which I had not seen for many years, I returned home on the 16th of June 1843, having filled one of the most important missions of my life, for the particulars ^of^ which I shall refer you ^to^ the ^to^ Times & Seasons Vol 4, No 18th p[age] 282, to ...