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1869 March 31 Letter to James H. Martineau

Title

1869 March 31 Letter to James H. Martineau

Description

Jesse will be asked to assist the chief engineer with a U. S. survey in Cache Valley.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

Brigham Young

Recipient

James H. Martineau

Date

1869 March 31

Location

Salt Lake City
Logan

Number of Pages

2

Subject

Business Matters
Railroad

 

Salt Lake City. U.T.
March 31. 1869.

Mr. James H. Martineau,
Logan.

Dear Bro:-

Yours of the 22nd inst. applying for a situation as assistant engineer on the Utah Central Railroad has been received. The Board of Directors for that road appointed Jesse W. Fox, chief engineer to organize a Company to locate the road, and therefore the matter is in his hands, what he has done in the premises I am not advised. Bro. Fox is now out surveying on the line of the Pacific Railroad & I believe wants your assistance there. This survey must be completed before the other is commenced; the object is to secure the settler's lands which will be surveyed some 20 miles on both sides of the railroad.

Since writing the above Bro. Fox has come in. You will probably be called upon to assist in hunting out the stakes of the U.S. Survey in Cache Valley.

Your brother in the Gospel
Brigham Young