Brigham Young quietly organized "gold missions" to go to the goldfields to encourage miners to continue their work and bring their gold to Salt Lake while he preached against the lure of gold to Mormon emigrants arriving from the east. The first deposits at the Mormon "gold office were made in where a "mint" began coining gold pieces. November 1848
[source: Brooke, John L. The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. p.272]
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