[William Clayton Journal] In council with Brigham ]Young], Heber [Kimball], and others. We found that [George] Millers company had gone still farther about 8 miles instead of waiting till we overtook them so that we could organize. I wrote a letter to them saying if they did not wait or return to organize, the camp would organize without and they be disfellowshiped. We concluded to stay at this place a few days to buy corn to last to Grand River, distance [] miles, but we found corn scarce and 25c a bushel, the farmers having advanced on account of a disposition to speculate.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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