WHITEHEAD, MILES & CO., GENERAL MERCHANDISE. "PRIDE OF JAPAN" TEA. L. STRAUSS & CO'S RIVETED CLOTHING. Delamar, Nevada JULY 18 [18]96. 189 PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF. SALT LAKE CITY, DEAR SIR: Have received your call to go to the SOUTHERN STATES on a mission, and will say that I am perfectly willing to go and do the best that I can, and shall be in SALT LAKE at the appointed time. Yours very respectfully, George E Miles

Skumpah Ranch August 11th 1896 Prest. Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother I received a letter asking me to take a mission but I just received it and will not be able to get there on that date but if you will extend it untill the 1st November I will try and get there if Possible If you want me then I will try and fix things and go your Brother in the Gospel Geo. H Lytle James Andrus Bishop That will be all right. Say, from 1

St George July 19th 1896 Prest Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother I received your notification to fill a mission to the northern States and accept the same and feel thankfull to my heavenly Father that I am counted worthy to assist in carrying the Gosple to the nations of the earth Your Brother in the Gosple George W. Worthen. James Andrus Bishop ...

blessings of the Lord, I will, ere the 10, of November arrives, ^be^ all pre- pared and at the Historians office awating your will. Asking your prayers, and the blessings of the Lord in my behalf. I remain Your humbel servant, and Gospel Brother Charles G. Y. Higgins. St. George. We heartily endorse Brother Charles G. Y. Higgins, as a worthy young man, to fill a mission to the South Western States Respectfully your Brother James Andrus Bishop St George Br T ...