How
did the death rate at Winter Quarters compare to third world nations today?
a.
Far lower
b.
Higher
c.
Far higher
d.
Lower
Yesterday’s answer:
a.
Recruiting
skilled talent
Erastus Snow made increasingly frequent visits to
Franklin D. Richards, the president of the mission headquartered in England.
The reason soon became clear. Richards was getting requests from Salt Lake City
for converts possessing specific talents. One early example was the great need
for a paper mill. The Church newspaper, the Deseret
News, was dependent upon paper hauled at great expense over the plains and
mountains. Thus the British Mission and theScandinavian Mission were asked to
try and find an expert papermaker. This call was answered when Thomas Howard,
known as a skilled paper man, joined the Church in Buckinghamshire in 1850. A
year later he was in Salt Lake City in charge of building a new paper mill.
Robert Mullen, The
Latter-day Saints: The Mormons Yesterday and Today (New York: Doubleday,
1966), 128-129.
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