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Show Chapter Four It's a good thing I didn't get sick and crippled up before our trip here. I was a big help to Mama and Papa then. I could never have stood it just sitting in the wagon day after day, not able to get out and run and visit with Becky and Nettie Taggart. We were friends right from the first day we met when we rolled into Ham's Fork . . . On the Sunday following Nettie's interview with the Bishop the ward in Almy was visited by Apostle Abraham Owen Woodruff. He was a slender man, with sandy-colored hair and a high forehead. His mouth was thin, his face clean-shaven, but when he smiled he was very pleasant looking and Nettie was satisfied with her first real look at an apostle of the church, the son of former President Wilford Woodruff. He spoke quietly, but with conviction. "The Church is now in the process of acquiring a permit to construct a canal in the Big Horn basin. This canal will divert water from the Shoshone River and will make possible the cultivation of a large area of land. I have been placed by President Snow at the head of this colonization company and put in charge of all its affairs. I am on my way to Ham's Fork to organize as many as will come into companies to travel to the Big Horn basin to settle. |