[Brigham Young Sermon] President Young said: We now propose to put up some log houses, and plaster them up outside, perhaps build one side with logs'- President Young said: We want five or six men to assist Father Sherwood in surveying the city. Every man shall be credited what he does on the adobie houses, and then when others come in, they shall pay the price for it. We expect every man will have his lot and farm and will attend to it himself. A few men came with Thomas Williams when he came to Fort Bridger, when they came they borrowed flour of the Pioneer company, most of them refuse to pay what was borrowed for them. They ought to return the compliment. President Young said: You came and would not have eaten more if you had stayed. Is there a man that would not have borrowed on the strength of his rations. Brother Rockwood let them have twenty pounds of flour, that we don't want, but the twelfth ten have not ten pounds of flour among them, and that ought to be paid. He then related the Sim Goodel affair, and said: I anticipate the time will come when I shall enjoy good health in this valley, and be able to speak to the brethren. I deprive myself of preaching to the brethren in order to keep on this side of the vail. If the wind had not blown so hard I should have spoken upon the sealing principle. I perceive that I fail, that my bodily strength is decreasing. If I had spoken it would have hurt me. There are many things I want to say before I go. I feel thankful that I am here, words and actions cannot exhibit what is in me. The hand of the Lord is stretched out. He will surely vex the nations that has driven us out. They have rejected the whole council of God. The nation will be sifted and the most come out chaff, and they will go to the fiery furnace. They will go to hell. This is the spot I had anticipated. We will, not have a hard winter here. The highest mountains are near one and one-quarter miles high. We shall find that sugar cane and sweet potatoes will grow here. The brethren from Pueblo advise us all to build adobie houses. There never was a better or richer soil than this. Last fall we found there were lots of persons who had not two weeks provisions with them. If we had come on then, we should have led a people to the mountains to suffer. We told the pioneers to bring at least one hundred pounds of bread-stuff. If men have not bread, let them go where it is. There are some that would lie down and die before they would complain, and again, others who would take the blood of man for it. The first company were charged to bring a, sufficient quantity to last them through the present season. I calculate we shall bring as mush as will last us until we can raise food. We want all the brethren who are going' back, to go to the Salt Lake and have a swim. The water is almost equal to vinegar to make your eyes and nose smart. -- SLC Bowery [Pioneering the West 1846 to 1878: Major Howard EganÂ's Diary. Howard R. Egan, ed. Salt Lake City, 1917. 118-119; General Church Minutes. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 1 (2002)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
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