CHAPTER XVI.

Contentment Among the Saints in Great Salt Lake Valley--Rude Dwellings and Short Rations--Trying Experiences--Rescue of Mormon Battalion Members from Starvation--Carry News of California Gold Discovery to the East--Re-union of Mormon Battalion Members--Addresses by the First Presidency and Others--Settling a New Country--Organization of Minute Men--Cold Winter--The Gold Fever--Tenor of the Preaching and Prophesyings of those Times--Instructing the People in Industrial Pursuits--Policy Towards the Indians.