[Re: Yours of 8th alluding to harassment] In view of all this, we have endeavored to secure a place of refuge in Mexico; but have been greatly embarrassed there by a variety of circumstances, and the results, until quite lately, were unsatisfactory. We also counseled Brother Card and Brother Zundell and one of the sons of Brother William D. Hendricks to make a trip into British Columbia with a view of searching out a suitable place or places there …

This last movement for obvious reasons was made very quietly and so as not to attract attention. It is still our wish that it should not be agitated and given to great publicity. We have counseled Brother Card to take the necessary steps to form a colony in that region if a sufficient number of brethren could be found who would like to go there. [Contact him in Mexico] there is room for 100 families …

John Taylor, George Q. Cannon