. Juvenile Instructor . lands. Before this conferencewas held, however, the news had reached theValley that the printing press, type anj 548 THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. paper, had been removed from the Islands toSan Francisco, and, as my labors were likelyto be more available at that point, now thatthe press was removed there, I was called, atthe spring conference in 1855, to take a mis-sion to California to labor in connection with,and under the direction of Elder Parley Elder Pratt was to act as editor ofthe paper, which it was expected we wouldpublish; President Orson Hyde, who had be
. Juvenile Instructor . lands. Before this conferencewas held, however, the news had reached theValley that the printing press, type anj 548 THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. paper, had been removed from the Islands toSan Francisco, and, as my labors were likelyto be more available at that point, now thatthe press was removed there, I was called, atthe spring conference in 1855, to take a mis-sion to California to labor in connection with,and under the direction of Elder Parley Elder Pratt was to act as editor ofthe paper, which it was expected we wouldpublish; President Orson Hyde, who had been accompany me, to assist me in my labors, 1chose Elders Joseph Bull and Matthew , who were, therefore, also appointedat this same conference, on this from Great Salt Lake City on the10th of May, 1855, in the company of Presi-dent Charles C. Rich, and passing throughSan Bernardino, California, at which placethere was then a large settlement of our peo-ple, presided over by Elders Amasa M. Lyman. EDITORIAL AND MECHANICAL STAFF OF THE ((WESTERN STANDARD.)) appointed to establish and take charge of asettlement in Carson Valley, was requestedto superintend the financial business of theundertaking; and I was to publish the Bookof Mormon in the Hawaiian language and totake charge of the printing and the publica-tion of the paper, writing for it also as Ishould have opportunity. Being requestedby President Young to select two Elders to and Charles C. Rich, we reached San Fran-cisco in the latter part of June. «In the preceding March, Brother Parleyhad issued a prospectus for a periodical,—The Mormon Herald; but receiving scarcelyany encouragement, and not being aware ofthe arrangements which had been made atthe April conference to strengthen him, hehad made up his mind as he had been some THE WESTERN STANDARD. 549 time absent from home, to return there. Wereached San Francisco a few days after hisdeparture from that city. By starting afterhim immediately,
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