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1868 October 15 Letter to W. W. Cluff

Title

1868 October 15 Letter to W. W. Cluff

Description

Cluff should not buy out Mr. Harlen. To preserve the Saints, the Conference voted to disfellowship those who trade with outsiders.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

Brigham Young

Recipient

W. W. Cluff

Date

1868 October 15

Location

Salt Lake City
Coalville

Subject

Business Matters

 

Salt Lake City, U. T.
15 October 1868

Bishop W.W. Cluff
Coalville

Dear Brother:

In reply to your letter regarding Mr Harlen, my counsel is for you to let him alone and not buy him out, as if you now buy him out it is most probable he will again return with a fresh stock of goods. Let him sell his goods, if he can, to travelers and transients, but if any of the saints persist in dealing with him, after they have been counselled not to do so, let them be disfellowshiped according to the vote of the conference. When he offers his goods a little cheaper than they can be laid down here at cost and freight, we may believe he intends to leave for good. If I can see a list of his prices at that time, I will give you counsel what to do.

Your brother in the Gospel
Brigham Young