Letter to Brigham Young, 1871, November 6.

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Letter to Brigham Young, 1871, November 6.

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Letter from Amos Milton Musser to Brigham Young in which he details the successes of the Pioche telegraph business. He includes a summary of the company's business receipts, notes a $1000 subscription from the Meadow Valley Mining Company, and mentions additional subscribers to California Stock. He also expresses his concerns about the Western Union Company, which was "threatening" to install a telegraph line from a mining camp at Hamilton to Pioche. Musser describes a meeting in Reno with Agent Ladd of the Western Union Service where they discussed the possibility of graded tariffs to Nevada. Musser concluded that the company was "unrelenting in high rates" and charged as much to send a line to Hamilton as San Francisco. The letter is marked "excerpts" and "copy." Included on the verso of the letter is a brief account of Musser's return to Utah following the India mission in 1857. He describes being in charge of 800 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints emigrants traveling from Liverpool to Boston on board the George Washington and their journey across the plains to Utah with Captain William G. Young's company. He notes that emigration agent James A. Little, John Taylor, and Erastus Snow helped oversee the trip.

1 letter, 3 pages.

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Meadow Valley Mining Company

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Western Union Telegraph Company

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The bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale were both involved in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition to British Columbia, Alaska and Russia to survey areas where the Western Union Telegraph Company planned to construct a telegraph line linking America and Europe. The line was never completed. Charles S. Bulkley was Engineer-in-Chief and Charles M. Scammon was Chief of Marine. The bark Golden Gate was the flagship of the expedition from June 1865 to March 1866, after which the clipper s...

Young, Brigham, 1801-1877

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Second president of the Mormon Church. From the description of Certificate, 1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122630973 American religious leader, second president of the Mormon Church, first governor of the Territory of Utah, and colonizer who significantly influenced the development of the American West. From the description of Cash ledger books, 1862-1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122480196 From the description of Cash ledger books 1862-1877 ...

Musser, A. Milton

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Amos Milton Musser was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on May 20, 1830. In 1837, he moved with his widowed mother to Quincey, Illinois, and fought in the Battle of Nauvoo at age 16. He was subsequently driven to Iowa with his family and other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Musser worked as a clerk in Iowa and was officially baptized into the LDS Church at Council Bluffs in 1851. That same year Musser traveled to Utah with the Easton Kelsey Company and became ...