Sept 12 1872 to visit the City. We visited the Merchants Library contained 33000 volums we visited the Williamette Woollen Manufact- uring Co goods, & the Merchants Exchange, Chamber of Commersce. San Francisco is a vary fine place the City looks as though it was 100 years old instead of 20. It contains 175000 Inhabitants & a vast amount of wealth Expended in building it up. We visited the Chineese part of the City Their God Josh, with their Eternal fires burning, we saw them ingaged in ...

Sept 23rd 1868 Joseph W Young 35 m[inutes], John Vancott 25, O Hyde 6, D H Wells 25 Joseph Young sen 43 minutes W Woodruff 20, & O Hyde 15 minutes There was a great preparation & display made for Presidet Young [FIGURE] at Brother Browns whare he stoped for the night it was said that there was the Best Table set that he had ever seen in this Territory. in the ...

and a half Batch of wheat in this country this season & a good crop of corn oats, Barley, potatoes, suger cane & vegitables of all kinds that are raised in this Territory. a great Deal of the grafted fruit from cuttings sent from the states has been a cheat of the worst kind, crab apples & the west that could be found yet we have a good many kinds which are gennuine we have the best seedlings that I ever saw in any part of the world. We have a great county for stock as well ...

Sac City Feb 7 1856 Dear Bro. Woodruff as Capt Brown is leaving Sacramento to day for Salt Lake City I hasten to pen a few lines that you may know I am well and doing well My studies are progreressing as well as I could expect I am learning to write the Chinese Language and am about through the 214 Radicals so called by the English or in Chinese [chinese characters] tsz of which I will not write much at this time but will hereafter when [chinese characters] ...

up all the Quorums of the Church, especially the Seventies and dropping the members who have stood for years as a dead letter upon the books, but have not reported themselves to their Presidents, the Spirit and power of God has been like fire shut up in our bones this winter, and the vision of our minds has been open in a measure to the importance of magnifying our calling in the Priesthood, and building up the kingdom of our God. We are thinking of taking a tour North as far as Salmon ...

April 18. 1889 seen spouting in this bay, and sometimes are caught, though none had been caught recently. We saw a Chinese [Junk], and there were a number of Italian fishermen in their vessels, which carry lateen sails, such as are used in the Mediterranian. These Italians do a great deal of fishing here. The Chinese also gather abalone shells. The meat of this shell fish they dry in large quan- tities. It is said to be very palatable when dried. They use large quantities of ...

September 10, 1890 ~ Wednesday Sept 10th 1890 I wrote 2 letters to Emma and all the children we rode 18 miles with Mr Seemore Proprietor of the Ross House He traveled through many parts of the City, through the Golden Gate and Park in the Evening we attended the Chineese Theater and their Underground Habitations we retired at 12 oclok 20 mils September 11, 1890 ~ Thursday 11 I was cold this morning we had a ...

interview with Col. I. Trumbo, A. Badlam and Judge Estee. August 23, 1896 ~ Sunday Aug 23rd We took a walk through a part of the gardens. The Arizona garden was the most interesting. We saw ten century plants in bloom. I seem to have taken cold and it has settled all through my system. August 24, 1896 ~ Monday Aug 24th. For the first time in years I see and hear crows in the trees near the ...

August 24, 1896 ~ Monday 24 Aug for the first time in years I see & hear crows in the trees Near the Hotel we took a carriage & Road through Monterey & took carriage & road through the pacific Drive grove Cypress Grove the ownly one in the World so the Driver said said the Stranded Steamer on the Rock We Drove through the p[e]aceful [Inprains] Land of 7000 Acres we passd through a Heard of Large ground squirls a great Number of them we had a ...

followed by the Twelve. Our Tabernacle, school houses, and all places, of worship have been filled to overflowing throughout the Territory. The people are paying their Tithing, the public store houses are well filled with grain. Many are getting wives and their Endowments. Prest. Young is nearly worn out waiting upon the people day and night. He is expecting to leave this Spring, with H. C. Kimball the Twelve, (except myself) and about 100 others on a tour to Salmon river to see ...