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Show 267 vegetables and a portion of the grain." In the meantime, he ordered the Fillmore and Beaver settlements to supply replacements for the men who wanted to return to their homes. This was especially important, reasoned Young, for the men from the northern cities whose families were still in exhile. Probably anticipating the return to Salt Lake in the near future, he knew that the men would be needed to help their families move north. Farnsworth and Brunson were also required to regulate the officers of the mission as they saw fit, because Ed son Barney and George W. Bean would not be returning. The two bishops responded with their usual alactrity, organizing and outfitting relief companies. The Beaver company consisted of twelve men, "well fitted out," who departed for Snake Valley on July 6. They were led by James Low, the veteran of the original Beaver company under Bean which returned after 7 failing find a suitable location for settlement. The particulars of the Fillmore relief company are obscure, but Brunson was to report to Brigham Young that the company started within four days of receiving the prophet's instructions; therefore, they were probably on their way before the end of June. President Young apparently gave Dame orders similar to those he gave Brunson and Farnsworth, because the colonel quickly sent a letter to Jesse N. Smith, upon his return to Parowan, instructing him to remain until after the harvest, then bring in the grain and abandon the settlement. Smith received the letter on July 10 while visiting the brethren at Cave Springs.9 Dame was also pressing Bishop Farnsworth to furnish an additional eight men for Maadow Valley. This irked the bishop, as he felt the resources of his tiny village had been stretched to the limit. He also felt that Colonel Dame had not dealt fairly with him. Beaver was one of the newest and smallest settlements in the South. Yet, as he complained to Brigham Young, "On the Colonel's first demand, he was furnished from Beaver with fifteen men, five wagons, five |