The Brigham Young Center

President's Office
Great Salt Lake City
March 9, 1867

President E.T. Benson,
Logan, Cache Co.

Dear Bro.

Your favor of the 4th instant, giving an account of your and the brethren's labors and visits, &c., has been received and read with pleasure. The traveling of the Elders among the people, visiting them, and holding meetings with them, is attended with excellent results and a vast amount of good is accomplished thereby. The eyes of many of the elders are directed to foreign nations as offering inviting fields for their labors; but we have here, right at home, a far better field for missionary labor than the whole world offers beside. In no country can the labors of faithful elders be applied to better advantage than in the various cities, settlements and wards of Zion.

Your telegram of the 6th instant was received. You need a woollen factory there and I should advise you to get one; but as to counsel as to how to raise means I do not know what you can do unless the people will use the interest of the means they spent in folly. When I say folly I mean the money they have spent in buying things they could have done without.

Everything is moving along quietly in the City, and with the exception of colds and rheumatism resulting from the unsettled and stormy weather good health generally prevails

With love in which the brethren here join, I am

Your Brother,
Brigham Young