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Show 304 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. CHAPTER XLV. A Colonizing Mission to Mexico I Prefer to be Relieved My Wish not Granted The Company who Volunteered Our Start from St. George Parting with President Young. ( ARRIVED home about the ist of July, 1876, found my family all well; I settled down to work at once making saddle- trees, as they were in good demand, and my family needed the help they would bring. I had been at home about one month when I received a note from President Young requesting me to come to the city as he wished to talk to me about the Mexican missions. On meeting President Young in the city he said, " I would like to have you pick a few families and take charge of them and go into the far south and start a settlement. Would you like to do it?" I answered, " Yes, I will go." " Whom would you like to go with you ? I want the settling to stick, and not fail." I replied, " Give me men with large families and small means, so that when we get there they will be too poor to come back, and we will have to stay." He laughed and said it was a good idea. While in Salt Lake receiving instructions from President Young and preparing to go on the colonizing mission, I heard for the first time of the hard stories told against me. There is one thing I would like to say that I think should be considered by all Latter- day Saints, and that is, few men, possibly none, ever made an overland trip of four thousand miles over deserts and through the most dangerous country on the continent and got through without some little " family jars." |
