[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 7th We held A public Meeting in the Camp of Israel And Chose A Council of Twelve men As A High & City Council to transact all business Appertaining to the settlement during the winter.
We had a council with col Cane. Some important things were said. A resolution formed to address certain resolutions to the Hon president Polk with expressions of gratitude for his kindness to the Latter day Saints in arming 500 of them & planting them in Calafornia And paying them as soldiers & offering other privileges. Spoke against Gov Boggs being Governor of California & Oregon As his friends were trying to make him.
President Young informed Col Cane that our intention was to settle in the great Bason or Bear valley. A territorial Goverment will be petitioned for as soon as we get settelled there And some other business Attended to.
We rode out in the evening And pitched upon a location in A valley the east side of the timber. We met in council in the evening.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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