Letter from John Daniel Thompson McAllister, 21 October 1881
To President Wilford Woodruff,
Salt Lake City.
Dear Brother,
As we have not
received any word relative to some of
the items broached while I was in
the city I have thought it advisable to
drop you a line to bring them before your
mind.
One was relative to an Order from the
Trustee in Trust on the Washington Factory
to liquidate our Temple and So U. Tithg of-
fice a/c. The letter broaching this was left
in the hands of Brother Nuttall.
Another was permission from the Trus-
tee in Trust to apply labor on the Water Knolls
near the Spring recently purchased for
the Temple.
We were up in the Temple Tower yes-
terday and find that the lower octagon
framework which is supposed, in Bro Fol-
som's plan for the improved tower, to be in
already, does not exist at all. There are
but the four corner timbers ion the lower
floor of the square of the tower or in
other words on a level with the roof. We
