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Show him that if they did as the Great Father desired them I thought he would send a black-Smith among those who would not only learn them to mind grains but to make plows, hoes and axes. They appeared highly pleased with the idea and the chief promised to do all in his power to induce his people to work, but, he wanted to know how they were to live till their crop could grow: He said they had no bread and if they quit hunting, they would obliged to starve before they could raise bread out of the ground. And as the Great Father was rich, it would be a fine thing if he would tell the Mormons to give his people some beef and flour while they were training to work. I then gave them some Blankets and clothing which came in fair season as many of them were quite bare and winter just now setting in in earnest. I then lectured them on the subject of cleanliness, which I was induced to do from the character of some of the diseases that prevail among them, traceable to no other cause than that of filth about their persons. Of this character is a species of gonorrhea from which but few of them are exempt. It is quite amenable to treatment however, and in mild cases; often yield to the removal of their breech cloths and the application of soap and water. I also laid out a small reservation in Utah County, on the western bank of Spanish Fork Creek near its mouth, including 6U0 acres on one section, for the benefit of a few families who are |