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Show 16 BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. to California. My high regard for Brother George A., and the fact that he devoted much of his time to the interest of the Church, my rendering him gratuitously my services in crossing the plains and for hauling him wood with which to make his family comfortable during the winter. However, when I left him, he trusted me to a yoke of oxen and a wagon, the latter were so reasons for would now probably be worth $40. For this team and wagon, I sent him after my arrival in California $400 in gold. "On my arrival in California, I began work in the mines at Mc Dowell's bill about four miles above Mormon island. By applied industry and economy I was able in two and a balf years to lay by $1,250. In the fall of '52 I went to San Bernardino. My broth ers, Seth, Freeman, and Joseph had also been at work and with what we had saved we began farming, stockraising, and trading. In '56, however, my brother Seth drew out and began coal mining in San Diego. "The year before, however, in '55, I came through to Salt Lake where I beca ne acquainted with Jane Mount who was living at tbe time with Henry Lawrence. Most of my boyhood days my life was separate and apart from girls in whose society I was both bashful and awkward. She was rather delicate, a very refined and intel ligent woman of literary tastes and poetic instincts. Her make-up seemed just the opposite to my own rugged, untempered and un cultivated nature. However surprised others appeared by reason of her attention to me, we nevertheless became engaged." In those days, the Saints who wandered off to, and remained in California were somewhat under the Church ban; and President Young, whose great anxiety it was to keep the Latter-day Saints within the Rocky Mountains where they might co-operatively build up exemplary communities, was often severe towards those who disregarded the counsels of the Church in that matter. Recount ing his experiences my father says that he called on President Young and spoke to him about his engagement to Miss Mount whom he desired to marry according to the rules of the Church. "President Young," he said, "became very angry and raked me over the coals in a lively manner and explained t) me the unfortun ate consequences of marrying a girl and taking her off to Cali fornia to live. This rebuff was too much for me and I saw that |
