rove
them from me - poor young girls as they were.

Brigham built a gristmill during the winter, and ground meal for
the people, charging a toll for all that the mill ground. In the
spring I was ordered to go out and preach, and raise thirty-three
wagons with the mules and harness to draw them. I succeeded in
getting thirty of the teams. Brigham told me to go again, that he
had asked for thirty-three teams, not for thirty. I went again,
and preached so that I soon had the other teams. I then turned
the whole outfit over to Brigham, so he could send his pioneers
to look up a new home for the Saints. I offered to go with the
company, but Brigham said:

"I cannot spare you; I can spare others better than you."

Brigham directed me to take my family and a company and go and
raise corn for the people. He said:

"I want you to take a company, with your family, and go up the
river and open up a farm, and raise grain and vegetables to feed
the needy and the soldiers' families. We cannot depend on hauling
our substance from Missouri, to feed the many that we have on our
hands. I want so much grain raised that all will be supplied next
winter, for we must feed our animals grain if we wish to cross
the plains next spring. There is an old military fort about
eighteen miles above here, where the land was once farmed, and
that land is in good condition for farming now. We will leave
Father Morley in charge of the various settlements. Brother Heber
C. Kimball will send some of his boys and make another farm this
side of there." Then turning to Father Morley, he said: "I want
John to take charge of the farming interests and the settlement
at my place, and you must counsel and advise with him from time
to time. I want you and all the brethren to understand that the
land nearest the settlement is to be divided between John and his
wives, for they are workers. The others are to go further for
their land."

At this I said that such an arrangement would not give
satisfaction to the people; there were several of his adopted
sons already jealous of me, and I feared the consequences, and
preferred to have the land divided more equally.

"Who is jealous of you?" he asked.

Then I named several persons to him. In reply he said, naming a
man, that he would work all day under the shade of a tree.
Another could work all day in a half-bushel. Then he said:

"Such men will do but little; let them go to some outside place
for their land.