The Brigham Young Center

Salt Lake City, May 6, 1868.

To the president and Directors of the Hooperville Irrigating Company

Brethren:

When the order of Zion has full scope her inhabitants will dwell in towns and cities, with their gardens and farms adjacent, and that for numerous social advantages not now necessary to detail. But until that period arrives, local and other causes require more or less deviations, as at present in your case. For reasons that will readily occur to you, it may be well, as far as possible, in addition to fixing your town lots, to put up cabins on your farms with a view to pre-empting them. In following the latter suggestion it will be proper to attend to it as speedily as practicable in which case it will be best, perhaps to see it first, and build on the town lots afterwards.

Your brother in the Gospel,

Brigham Young