Show Adieu Kind Friends With a heavy heart and a deep regret regret regret re re- re- re gret I leave Duchesne r I go to seek lost health which is often hard to find A milder climate may easily be found foun but that does not always guaranty guaranty guaranty guar guar- anty health I have lived in seven states and traveled through twenty others and hoped that my days of wandering were at nt an end bunow bu now fate to bied bled me be off again agnin and gone again In all nIl my travels I have neve never found a country or people that I liked better than Utah and the Reservation folks I say this with all sincerity I hold the most cordial friendship for Jor all and harbor malice to no ilo man If anyone nurses ill will against me I ask him to forget it as I have done I owe no man a dollar neither does any any man owe me Would rather have goodwill than a bag of gold but prefer good health to either It Itam Iam am mindful that most communities communities I respond to one who abruptly I pulls up and leaves Good I hope I am not deserving of such cold treatment after 15 16 years of pioneering pioneering pion pion- coring work among you Of all times I I would not pick the present to leave believing as I do that you now stand at the very door of permanent pros pros- This is not intended as an epitaph though I am in the hands of destiny I hope to return a sound man if only long enough to steal away the sweetest Mormon girl in Utah till then hen farewell M. M M M. M Smith |