Scope and Contents Letters to Erastus Snow concerning the Cashmere Goat Company and settler reinforcements for southern Mormon colonies.

Scope and Contents John Taylor's announcement to Mormon colonists in Arizona and New Mexico of Erastus Snow's upcoming visit and his authority to administer over them.

Scope and Contents Letters to Erastus Snow regarding the purchase of St. George Temple; coordination of trade among the colonies; and water right disputes.

Scope and Contents A report to John Taylor from Erastus Snow and Brigham Young, Jr., of their journey to southern colonies; and Erastus Snow's report of the San Juan grading camps.

Scope and Contents Correspondence during Snow's visit to settlements in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Utah concerning immigrant housing; complaints against local church officials; the introduction of railroads and John W. Young's construction debt; the release of individuals from United Order settlements; the establishment of a new ferry on the Colorado River; flood damage; Snow's desire to return to his normal duties; the church sawmill near Sunset, Arizona; reorganization of the Panguitch Stake;...

Scope and Contents The appointment of Snow and Moses Thatcher to establish a new colony on the Mexican border; their report concerning the purchase of land there; Snow's reports from San Juan, where settlers had suffered floods, and the church woolen mill in St. George; instructions from John Taylor to lease Pipe Springs Ranch and investigate the United Order settlement in Sunset, Arizona; second correspondence to L. J. Nuttall concerning the establishment of a trail between Graves Valley and the Colorado River...

Scope and Contents The church presidency's call of Erastus Snow, Brigham Young, Jr. , and Francis M. Lyman to serve missions in the state of Sonora, Mexico, with instructions to purchase land for Mormon settlement; Snow's request for money to help Mormon polygamists hiding in Mexico; discussion of his personal finances and family temple work; his request that Moses Thatcher accompany him to Mexico; the missionaries' report of their investigation of the United Order settlement in Sunset, Arizona.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the church's purchase of land in the state of Sonora, Mexico, where a refuge for persecuted Mormons would be established.

Scope and Contents Snow's request for permission to sell the Sunset grist mill to the St. Joseph United Order colony; Taylor's description of increased federal harassment in Utah, persecution of immigrants on their journey west, and the propects of using other ports to land European converts; his inquiry about the possibility of safety and sustenance in Mexico; and discussion of land offers and surveys in Mexico.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the arrival of tools from Utah to begin driving wells in Mexico; stagnation of church affairs in Arizona; the arrest of Lorenzo Snow; the arrest of some gentiles by Mormon police for unlawful cohabitation; the case against Angus M. Cannon before the United States Supreme Court; increased investment in Mexico as a result of the House of Representatives' passage of the Edmunds-Tucker Bill; the transfer of church property to stake corporations; and Mexican colonization...