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Show Page 253 Godbe, Watt, and Orson Pratt arrived in Salt Lake on August 6, 1867, dragging behind them a huge stock of millinery, wholesale textiles, and even sewing machines for Orson's wives. His dream was to "work ourselves, in a few years, into a small capital, that will furnish an annual income... for my time is so much occupied in my calling, that I fear that I shall not be able to engage in any occupation which will materially benefit (you) temporally," he wrote his wife. The western terminus of the Union Pacific was running perilously close to Utah, with its promise of a Gentile influx, and the Orson found the authorities brooding over the opening of the murderous wounds the people had suffered at the hands of their disagreeable neighbors in Missouri and Illinois. With this in view , Brigham established soon after Orson's arrival, a new "School of the Prophets," to be conducted in every settlement, comprised of leading brethren. The revived "schools" would serve two purposes: first, to draw the elders into close communion on doctrinal points, fencing out the risk of Gentile contamination; and, second, to combine economically in a permanent boycott of Gentile and dissident business interests. Orson attended a convention of the "School" on December 2, where he was appointed to the 34 regency board of the University of Deseret. Brigham Young kept his wayward disciple in the safest place possible for a few weeks after his return from the extended mission - right by his side. The two went on tour together, somewhat to Orson's chagrin, for he had family he sorely missed scattered from Fillmore to Tooele. The President seemed determined not to let him out of his sight: "...the President...requested me to accompany him on a preaching expedition throughout Utah County, which I did. Before starting I procured a free ticket to go from Pason to Fillmore,...but the President hearing of my intentions, requested me to accompany him...on a tour to Cashe and Bear Lake vallies...This frustrated my contemplated visit to Filmore. I hope you will not blame me...You must begin to think, that you have no |