Improvement Era, Vol. 17

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Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 17: November, 1913On the 3rd of May the ship Thornton sailed from Liverpool with 764 Latter - day Saints on board, and twenty-two days later the Horizon left the same port with 856 more, making in all souls. The former company arrived at Iowa City, June 26, and those who sailed on the Horizon reached there twelve days later.Here they were met by the experienced men whom the authorities of the Church had sent to take charge.By this time the season was well advanced, and much work had to be accomplished before the emigrants would be able to continue on their way. It was necessary to construct more than two hundred and fifty carts, make dozens of tents, buy hun dreds of cattle, to say nothing of other important matters that must be looked after.Brother Chauncey G. Webb, who superintended the making of carts, was unable to purchase suitable timber for that purpose, but did the very best he could under the circumstances. He called to his aid every available mechanic in camp to help crowd the work through, while the women folks were busily engaged in making tents. Wiliam H. Kimball and George D. Grant were working diligently buying cattle, while Apostle Erastus Snow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.