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Show CHAPTER V SEBASTOPOL The wheels of the White Mountain Expedition were beginning to roll. Two days after proposing the investigation of the deserts, Brigham Young sent letters of instructions to several of the ecclesiastical heads of southern Utah. This letter, dispatched to Lewis Brunson, Bishop of Fillmore; Philo T. Farnsworth, Bishop of Beaver; Isaac C. Haight, Stake President of Cedar City; and Tarleton Lewis, Bishop of Parowan, was clearly written by the president of the church, not the governor, nor the military. Brunson's copy is given in its entirety: Great Salt Lake City Feby 23rd I858 Bishop Lewis Brunson, Fillmore City, Dear Brother; It is our intention to send out some old men and boys to the white and last mountains to the west of the settlements and find places where we can raise grain and hide up our families and stock in case of necessity. It is our wish to have the brethren go prepared with teams, seeds of various kinds and farming utensils so as to have grain raised at these places the present season. You will therefore select a few men of the kind above suggested and in connection with Bishop Farnsworth who will do likewise send out a party of fifteen or twenty men to search out and make a selection of and location at such place or places as may be suitable 95 |
