[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Missouri River, east side. Elders Young, Kimball, and A. Lyman rode across the Mosquito on the Bluffs to raise volunteers. Started about 8, returned 9 1/2 [9:30]. Brother Woodruff put up his new mill to try [it and see] how it would grind wheat, corn, etc. At 11, Henry Miller and company returned from their exploring expedition and went into council with the Twelve under the bower, and Andrew Perkins, as clerk of the company, reported they had been to the Boyer River, found it unfavorable, went up some distance, returned, saw an Indian who said the rushes were above the Boyer; that the country was good for fall and spring, but no better for winter than Mosquito Creek; that they had been 40 miles from headquarters [copy of report on file] on counsel of President Young. Other ways could be figured out to us in appearance to be so lucrative as to make settlements on the Pottawattamie [Pottawatamie] lands, after President Young had said that it was his private feelings that many of the brethren stop on the Pottawattamie lands, for it would be dangerous to go over the mountains for many of them.
Moved by President Young and voted that most of the brethren stop on Pottawattamie [Pottawatamie] lands. [At] 20 minutes to 12, adjourned to go to dinner and then to the river. The weather was excessively hot, little air. The band assembled in concert on the bluff near headquarters and spent the p.m. [evening] with dancing. The Presidency was in conversation in various tents. Lyman Stevens complained to President Young that Dominicus Carter was interfering with his domestic concerns. Presidents Young and Richards visited StevenÂ's tent and saw the parties. Carter denied, and they were all instructed to let all their difficulties cease till Stevens should return from the army. Spent the p.m. and evening in conversation about the camp, and put up for night.
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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