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Correspondence regarding conflict among priesthood leaders in the Eastern Arizona Stake; local priesthood procedures in disciplining disobedient church members; Brigham Young Academy Professor James E. Talmage's trip to the east coast to study medicine and surgery; prospects for settlements in Canada; the attempt to avoid federal confiscation of church property by turning it over to several trustees; and patents for the Emma and West Bullion mines.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the employment of J. M. Benedict, a non-Mormon surgeon, at the Deseret Hospital; a subsidy for the purchase of a violin to be played in church services; permission for Catholics to use the Salt Lake Theatre for a children's exhibition; John Taylor's sale of lots in Florence, Utah; his declension to pursue Mormon settlement in Peru; attempts to put pressure on east coast firms to influence Congress away from anti-Mormon legislation; and the candidacy of a California...

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Correspondence concerning the search for a missionary to translate Mormon publications into Danish; John Taylor's refusal to consider discontinuing the practice of polygamy; efforts to attract settlers to Arizona; arrangements to purchase land near the Provo tithing office; and the transfer of church property to stake associations to avoid confiscation by federal officials.

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Letters and telegrams from John Taylor's counselors, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith, about the president's death on July 25, 1887, "from causes induced by the inhuman persecutions to which he has been subjected during the last two years and a half."

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John Taylor's declension to purchase land in Durango, Mexico; his counsel concerning a case of statutory rape in Ogden; plans for reorganization of the Uintah Stake; and discussion of Mormon employment in laying railroad.

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Correspondence concerning the distribution of some copies of the Deseret News to missionaries serving among the Indians; discussion of Joseph Hall's completion of a history of the Logan Temple construction and his work on a history of northern Utah; non-Mormon attempts to control the Salt Lake City hotel business; and the Cashmere Goat Association.

Scope and Contents A letter to apostle Moses Thatcher discussing lawsuits involving the Bullion Beck and Cahmion Mining Company, and the Mormon purchase of the Emma Mine; the announcement of a planned visit by Hawaiian Queen Kapiolani to Salt Lake City; a directive that missionaries' book selling activities not outweigh their proselyting; and a letter to church attorney, Franklin S. Richards, from George Q. Cannon, first counselor in the church presidency, stating John Taylor discontinued cohabitation with any...

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W. Turrentine Jackson's article, "The Infamous Emma Mine: A British Interest in the Little Cottonwood District in Utah Territory."

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(Photographs and short biographical sketches of the woman after whom the Emma Mine was named.)

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Excerpts concerning the Emma Mine from Edward W. Tullidge's History of Salt Lake City; Hubert H. Bancroft's History of Utah; T. B. H. Stenhouse's The Rocky Mountain Saints; and J. H. Beadle's narrative, Western Wilds and the Men Who Redeem Them.

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Excerpts from the Utah/Mining Gazette and the Salt Lake Tribune concerning the Emma Mine.