| Show by kindness of president young we are enabled to print the following letter kasa KANAB B KANE rane co july 1873 president brigham young dear brother I 1 arrived home here on the ath of july from the Moyen coppy where I 1 had been instructed ted by bro joseph W young to act as guide to the first company compan y of emigrants and there to wait t till i 11 further orders I 1 remained there till the last of june and hearing of the death of joseph W young I 1 return returned edwith with bro Haigh baights ts company as he had been ordered to make settlement on the little colorado and could not find a suitable location I 1 visited seven of the M maquis uis towns and found them all well weil 11 pleased with the idea of our becoming their neighbors while at the Moyen coppy with the help of bro milton burt we put in thirteen acres of corn beans v vegetables eee eze tables etc several of the company compan y remarked that they never saw a crop more promising than it when we left this we watered from a large pure spring of good water which we judged wouldga would water from fifty to seventy nive five acres tuby and some twenty other came down to farm some eight miles above where I 1 put in the crop tuby and his brethren are aro anxious to have assistance to build a mill and improve the moyen mosen coppy to get out the water on the best of the land etc spring creek where th they are farm farming ing will afford much h hay 7 3 A little labor at this point will avail much by improving I 1 judge some acres might be irrigated at this point as it sustains now that amount of marsh and lake I 1 have seen some forty springs of pure water on the Moyen mosen coppy most of them small bome eight or ten will probably water some fifty acres each there are probably more springs as I 1 have not fully explored it is some thirty miles from the Moyen coppy to the san francisco forest which I 1 have formerly explored for some soma sixty miles from east to west at the southwest base of the san fancisco peaks are two permanent s springs of pure water As my mission requires me soon to return to the he Moyen mosen coppy if you think best I 1 can while there make a trip to the san francisco mountains the bribes are not only willing but anxious to assist us in any matter pertaining to forming settlements in arizona I 1 hope to see you at the october conference faithfully JACOB AMLIN |
