The Brigham Young Center

Salt Lake City. U. T.
August 5. 1871

D. M. V. Stuart, Esq.
Park City, Sedgwick Co. Kansas.

Dear Sir:-

Your communication of the 25th July, respecting the building of a certain railroad has been received, and its contents carefully considered.

The project in question is certainly a desirable one, and the construction of such a road, somewhere across that section of the country, is in my judgment only a question of time.

I am ignorant, what guage, if any, has yet been decided upon, but I am of the opinion that the three feet guage would be preferable to the ordinary one.

Since aiding in the construction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, the people of this Territory has been quite in the vein for railroad building, indeed, no sooner were these roads completed than we built and equipped, on our own resources, a very good road, 37 miles in length, connecting S. L. City with the U. P. and C. P. at Ogden. This done, we are now engaged in running a line southwards from this city towards the Colorado. This undertaking is a heavy tax upon our capital, and how far our means will enable us to go now I cannot say, but we have started for the Colorado; and we have plenty of honest, efficient labor, and of a class who prefer this kind of employment to the feverish excitement and dissipated habits too common with mining life.

We will watch with some interest the progress of your enterprise, but I am not prepared now to say that we can enter into it.

Wishing you all the success that is due to this great undertaking and all that pertains to the development of the material resources of our country.

I am,
Yours with respect
Brigham Young