[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Pleasant Point Encampment. Morning warm, northwest wind. At 8 a.m., President Young wrote as follows: "Camp of Israel, Pleasant Point, Saturday 18th, 1846. To the council of the camp, captains of hundreds, fifties, etc.: It is wisdom to meet in council this morning at 10 o'clock. It is also wisdom to select men to go and sell property from this point; also send men to labor; also select the men that can fit themselves for the mountains and they go about it. The rest of the company go immediately to Grand River where they can locate themselves for the season, and the teams that are going back to Nauvoo go on to help the families onto the location. This is my counsel and orders. Thus are the whisperings of the spirit of the Lord to me," Brigham Young.
Agreeable to the foregoing order, the council assembled in the groves west of the encampment at 10 o'clock, (viz.) B. Young, Kimball, P. P. Pratt and Willard Richards, Bishops Whitney and Miller, and 11 others of the council of (YTFIF), commandants of companies, etc., in all 53. President Young stated that unless the hands of the Twelve could be untied, it would be impossible for them to go over the mountains. The teams that had been returned by the Church had been smuggled by individuals and converted to the removing of their own families, and thereby clogged the wheels. It now remains for this council to say who shall go over the mountains. Motion: Captain Markham decided that the President should select the men that should go. President said that everyone that could fit out might go. Council decided that the captains of 10 should make a schedule of all the property belonging to their companies that we may know who could fit out. The President stated there should be a commissary over each 10 and deal out ½ lb. of flour or bread to each person for every 24 hours, and that no person would be allowed to start with less than 150 lbs. bread to each person, 1 cow to every 2 persons, 10 lbs. salt, l/2 bushel wheat to every 5 persons, and other seeds, that we overhaul our goods, and that we send our traders immediately south to the Missouri River and fit out for the mountains.
Commissary Whartham reported 100 barrels of flour, 8,000 lbs. bacon for sale by Mr. Bryant, about 60 miles west. Council directed Commissary Sherwood and Whartham to go immediately and purchase said flour and bacon, providing they could buy it with trade. Council directed a schedule of the public property be made out this afternoon and presented to the captains of fifties, and they to the general clerk; that the artillery prepare seats in the grove for public meeting on the morrow. Meeting adjourned to 10 o'clock the following day [viz. Monday]. W. Richards, Clerk, Brigham Young, President.
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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