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Show - 4:J - people at the William c. Kil gore home and tha t ni gh~ stayed a t the HOlland home . Among the letters he wrote was an importan ~ one to President John Taylor which read as I Ollows: President John Taylor: Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Brother: In August l ast, I wrote to President Young , asking r or counsel relative to the bes~ course to be pursued ' in our movements r or emigr a tion this }!,all, and in re pl y received a lett er :trom you da ted September 8, s~ at ing tha t you would f orward me in f ormation desired; it has not as yet been received , and I write you again on the subject. we have gone ahe ad with our a rrangements and expect to le ave our st ar~ing poin~ a-bout tne 1'7th or 19th with a company or !'rom f i f ty to sixty s a in~s, ! rom Al abama and Georgia. They will embar k a t Sc otsboro on the Memph i s and C ha rles~on Railroad; go via Cor i nth , Mississippi; Columbus, Ohio; St. Louis , Missouri, Kans as Ci t y , Missouri a nd then direct to Pueblo, Colora do, where we expe c t to disembark a nd either procure conveyance by t he purchase of wagons, or hiring and then go on into New Mex ico, t:Q.ough we may winter at or ne ar Pueblo and go on in the Spring; in the meantime s.ending a r ew men ahead to s eek out a loca tion . I am endeavoring to pick out the s~rong est or the s a ints and t ake them this Fall t o gpeh up the way and l eave the r est to f ollow in the spring or as soon as poss ible. It has been impossibl e f or me to obtain de i i nite i nforma tion a s r e gards the situa tion a t Pueblo; whethe r work can be obta ined; stock and wagons bought or not; or whether the weather in that l a titude will admit or our traveling a t this s eason of the year or not, etc. We thought best, h owever , to make the e ff ort, trusting tha t God woul d |
