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Show 62 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. CHAPTER XI. President Young calls for Volunteers to meet the Hand- cart Company I Join the Party Names of the Company One party of Emigrants found in a Starving Condition. I ATTENDED the October conference of 1856. When conference was opened President Young arose and said: " There area number of our people on the plains who have started to come with hand- carts ; they will need help and I want twenty teams to be ready by morning with two men to each team to go out and meet them. If the teams are not voluntarily furnished, there are plenty of good ones in the street and I shall call upon Brother J. C. Little, the marshal, to furnish them. Now we will adjourn this conference until to- morrow." Brother Young was in earnest ; he seemed moved by a spirit that would admit of no delay. A few days before this a number of elders had arrived from the old country reporting that the hand- cart people were on the road, but they did not know how far they had advanced. In those days there was no tele-graph, and mails from the east only reached Utah monthly, they being many times delayed by high water, Indians or other causes. Brother Young called upon every one present to lend a hand in fitting up these teams. As I was going out with the crowd, Brother Wells spoke to me saying: " You are a good hand for the trip ; get ready." Soon after Bishop Hunter said the same thing to me. Also Brother Grant met me and said : " I want you on this trip." I began to think it time to decide, so I answered, " all right." |