The Brigham Young Center

G. S. L. City, Sep. 15 1863.

Elder Erastus Snow,
St. George, Washington County, U. T.

Dear Brother:-

I wish you to get me two City lots in Washington, that I wish to let br. John Vance have, and for which I wish to pay in Guns and pistols of superior pattern and workmanship, articles needed there, and which I will send to you. I also want you to secure me twenty acres of farming land in the forks of the Santa Clara and Virgin, which I also wish to let br. John Vance have, and which twenty, I think, for many and excellent reasons, I am entitled to free of cost or charge.

If you cannot purchase the two City lots in Washington for guns and pistols, in whole or in part, upon receiving a line from you to that effect, I can pay a good opera glass or two, and a spy glass or two, and perhaps such other pay, money excepted; as the owners of the land may want.

As you will see by a notice in the "News", we have started our Woollen factory, as far as spinning goes, and we expect to start cotton spinning as speedily as possible, and will before long wish to purchase cotton in your region, and trust to be soon able to sell you some yarn at reasonable rates. Read advertisements in the "News." The woolen spinning machine made, right from the start, a far better quality of yarn, both coarse and fine, than I have been able to get spun by hand, which of course makes us well satisfied with our beginning.

Your Brother in the Gospel,

Brigham Young