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Transcript for "Affairs in Utah," New York Times, 21 Sept. 1862, 5
Brigham Young's Trip to the Cotton Country—Fruits—The Indians—Mormon Emigrants, &c.
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Wednesday, Sept. 3. 1862.
. . . . The merchants are coming, with the tea in their wagons. Nay, some of it is here, for has not a mule-train just come in for Mr. JENNINGS from California, loaded with merchandise? Even so.
The first company of Mormon emigrants this season arrived last Friday evening. The company numbered 212 souls, who brought with them 48 wagons, 75 yoke of oxen, 68 cows, 17 horses and 10 mules. LEWIS BRUNSON, captain. The party were an assorted cargo from several of the States, and not a few of the nations of Europe. The first emigrants that arrive have much the best chance, for they have a little time to prepare for the long Winter, and they have a chance to fill up the calls for labor, which have been rather low the past Summer. For the next month or six weeks, "everybody" will have emigrants-relations, friends, or, at least, "brothers and sisters"-to make welcome after their wearisome journey to "Zion."