---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 3
published: 1914-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Messages from the Missions,\" *Improvement Era* 17, no. 3 (January 1914): 267–268."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1703unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1703unse
start_page: 267
end_page: 268
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1703unse
  publication_year: 1914
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Messages from the Missions

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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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