Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 35

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Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 35: Designed for the Advancement of the Young, October 15, 1900Brother Merrill's first effort on reaching the Valley was to secure work. His early efforts were a source of trial, as his employ ers sometimes proved to be unreliable. In Salt Lake City he agreed to work for per month. After three weeks some trouble arose and he was about to leave his employer, when the latter offered him per month. He thereupon agreed to remain and work in the canyon getting out shingle timber, where he made as many as one thousand shingles in a day. He was then promised his board and a certain percentage of the shingles sold, but his employer did the Selling and kept the money. After some controversy, however, payment was secured, and the experience no doubt did much to induce the habit which has subsequently become prominent in the life of Brother Merrill, a habit of working on his own account.In November of the year 1853 Brother Merrill was married to Sarah A. Atkinson, and immediately went to a place in Bingham canyon, seven miles above its mouth, where he passed the winter in making shingles. The new venture became a profitable one. The shingles then sold at per thousand, and he was able to make five hundred a day. After staying in the canyon six weeks he ventured on a perilous journey home to see his wife. The snow was seven feet deep, and having no food with him when he began the journey, he was overborne by fatigue and weakness, and almost fainted before he reached a cabin where a woman gave him a small piece of bread to satisfy his craving. This was only a taste for a starving man, but in a few hours more food was given and little by little he overcame the exhausted condition to which his physical system was brought. After his long walk and suffer ings he was disappointed in not finding his wife at home, as she had gone off to work, so that he was obliged to return without seeing her.During Apostle Merrill's life in Salt Lake City he engaged in work in North Mill Creek canyon and gives the following remarkable experience in an article printed in the J uve nile instructor, October 15, 1892. The circumstances of the narration are so re markable that I give it here in full.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.