Letter to John Taylor, 25 November 1879
President John Taylor:
Dear Brother
As soon as I receivd your letter concern-
ing St. Johns and the Meadows, I wrote
immediately to Brother Tenney to go and
purchase St. John if he could. And on
Saturday night, at the Sheep-herd Spring
in the Mountains, some 40 miles from
Sunset, I received a letter from Brother
Tenney upon the subject; the follow-
ing is an extract. ("On the evening
of the 14th I received your letter, and
according to your request, I started for
St. John in pursuit of the object this morn-
ing about 9 o'clock. I have signed my
name to a bargain; thus buying the
entire right of water, ditch, and land,
(except 2 1/2 acres situated upon the
east side of the river, in the edge of
the town:) Commencing at the bridge—
(including the bridge)—and running
down the River, for the sum of (750)—
Seven hundred and fifty head of cows;
I thought I would stay at the Spring until
the 25th. I went to bed at 10 o'clock, awoke at
12 with my mind deeply exercised; and
my monitor said to me; "aArise tarry not
at this place. Go to Sunset. Direct Bro Tenney
to close this fa[water damage to paper] and secure the Meadows
without delay, for the enemy is on the alert."
So I awoke awoke my messenger who brought
me the letter. We made our fire, got our
breakfast and took our carriage and drove
40 miles to Sunset, over a rough rocky
country a part of the way. We arrived
about 7 o'clock. I counselled with Lot
Smith, and yesterday I wrote a letter to
Ammon M. Tenney to go immediately
and close this bargain, and secure the
2 1/2 acres if possible. Buy out the whole place
if possible; so that the Jews or Gentiles should
not have a hold among them. And this
morning we sent 4 men, fitted out as
missionaries from Sunset and Brigham
City and have called for one from Saint
Joseph and 4 from Snow Flake to join
them and go direct to Bro. Greer's—who is on
the meadows, and to get all they can to
