Messages from the Missions

EDITORS' TABLE 267 The company visited Binghamton, four and a half miles from Tucson, where many of the refugees from Mexico are located Here a meeting was held at which 292 Saints, 200 of whom were refugees, attended. President Smith's advice to the refugees who, with the Church, lost some $10,000,000 worth of property, is worthy of record: "Cease waiting to return to your former homes, and begin right where you are and build up your homes again. Gather what possessions you can, build what homes you can, improve your condition as far as it is possible for you to do so, and relinquish the idea of returning to Mexico. If, then, you ever do receive judgment for wrongs and losses suffered there, if conditions ever again permit you to return to those Mexican settlements, then you will be that much farther ahead, that much more prosperous, and then the return of your former property will come to you as an actual bonus, and every improvement you have made in the meantime will be an added asset which in case vcu rr..£> prefer to return to Mexico, you can undoubtedly sell." After the meeting at Binghampton, Bishop Heber Farr stated that the counsel President Smith had given to them was just what they had been waiting for, and it would be influential in settlingconditions among the refugees. From Arizona, the party went to Los Angeles, where they also had a pleasant visit, and held a meetitng with the Saints. "Everywhere," says President Smith, "we found prosperous conditions. The Saints seemed to be feeling well. In some of the southern parts of Arizona our people this year harvested six crops of alfalfa, which was sold in the field at $12 a ton. Under such conditions they can scarcely be otherwise than prosperous. Really, the only trouble is that they have so much to do on their farms that they cannot give the time and attention to their roads and fences and other things that should be given." Everywhere and on every hand, the party was received and treated with gratifying courtesy. They returned to Salt Lake City on Dec. 14, in good health and delighted with their trip. Messages from the Missions Elders Varian E. Hale, Blackfoot, Idaho, and Albert E. Hodgkinson. Vernal, Utah, write from Beattyville, Kentucky, East Kentucky conference: "On calling for a drink of water, on our way to another district, a gentleman recognized us, as having left him a Book of Mormon tract some time before. He wanted a Book of Mormon, as our doctrine seemed to him the most reasonable of any he had ever read. He had always before wondered where the American Indians came from. Our school, that was carried on last winter, did much good. Amidst the opposition we were permitted to hold six wellattended meetings and baptized four people during the week just past "

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