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Show \ .. ........ .... - --, ...... !3J . J.. • _ ' 1]1 , , .... Beoause of- the -'declining ana , ( r_ discou.raging c'ondl tiona at- sunset' e number ot people t among whcm were my Own folks. trom that 'co1o117 came to Joseph late in 1883 and ,earl)" in 1884; and althoUgh had previously been identi they tied with the sunset United Order Company same. it not' all of th«m failed to unite with the Order reasons, aa I rElIlember them. stated by my pao= plat being that they conaiQered the eysten rapidly becoming Obsolete here as it had already becane at the lower settlements. It 18 also probable that a number of the local people e1 ther were not mam.bere ot the Order or severed their connection with it because of difficulties and dissatisfaction. It appears that storehouse accounts were kept with both members aDd none.mbers, 80 it is sometimes d1tticul t to determine just who belonged to the system, although severel with the United Order persons are det1nite until its final dissolution. st-: here-:-their ',I idetif1ed Fran other sources than the United Order Company's minute book, which closed with the meeting of January 29, 188'1, we learn that on Monday December 26, 1887, Joseph C. Hansen, John McLaws, aDd J oh Buebm8n were appointed a caunittee to "settle all st. Joseph United Order hccounts". The audit made br this camnitte. was completed in 8 short time: and their report made on the 13th February, lB88 showed a canbined indebtedness, on the pert of tour members ot ,the canpallY, ot. a 1i ttl. more than • 1400.00. Oradi tor members were a1 d their p balances, perhaps nearly all in property---principally livestock: and these four debtors, ith balances "in the red" of $171.63, $262,28, $429.08, end $534.19, were released fraa their obligations 'by vote of the members. in order of figures given above, were Walker, Charles M. Peterson, and Henry W. DeSpain). tour cooperative not Walbeck, (These James N. Herds outgrowth part ot it. .An a general assemb. A. W. stewardship plan ot the st. Joseph United Order, but coopel'8tive herds ot cattle, sheep end 'horses, fOrmed dissolution of the Order. In settling United Order Ac of the were about the te of the counts in February. ]BS8. orders were issued to indi viduals--erstwhile ll8Jl bars of the Order whose accounts showed 8 credit belanee---totalling: for aheep, $3l67.84; on the cattle herd, $1888.41; and on the "horse' herd", $756.90. In ledger account. for 1889, the orders on cattle and horses are con sidered as capital and are credited to the 1ndiTiduala wo whom issued. At the ' time, same dividends, 1001 vid usl •• same tital11ng $451.30 for the year 1888. are I '" I, credited to the the.shep O herd, the February. 1888 entries show "losses" credited to individuals, amountiDg to $738.68, and 8 debit of $gog.OO charged to one man, lames N, Walker. for 108ses on the sheep. (May we infer that W8er had been the $9.00 charged to his account- tor therefore and the f reap1)nslb1e sheep the credits ot $738.68 being tor the purpose of making good losses to _ than himself?) ( ese cooperative herds sight of in public records. Earll persisted tor many years; but are others, gradually lost Coopers tive stores cClnpany formed at Sllowflake, wi th Jesse 6"' June, 188l, opened 8 cooperative stol e an establishment preTiously operated there by railroad 8tation wa8 moved westward a1X!t A 27th of 1882, l§1?SmiPF'r:.?Mb fti N. smith at Its at j head, h:trlle8 H@;Pct--eo .. I on the "Old Holbrook" by taking over Holbrook • wyThe in january, oenhsael- and the ' I "I,I IU |
