After a variety of conversations on different subjects.
The proposed that at Conference the speakers say nothing about our troubles, the mob, nor any thing pertaining to it; but to attend to our own business, and matters in relation to getting ready to go away.
wanted to know whether the Trustees should do any thing in regard to supplying the lower Steam Mill with wood so as to have it grind for us this winter.
The advised the Trustees to hire the Mill and keep it grinding for us all the winter.
He then proposed that hire s Foundery and go to work there forthwith making [p. [82]]
Willard Richards noted in his diary Young’s instruction that conference speakers “avoid reference to mobs. trouble &c” and Young’s statement “that we are going cheerfully.” (Richards, Journal, 4 Oct. 1845.)
In August 1845 Newel K. Whitney and George Miller contracted with mill owners Cyrus Peck and William Manhard to have the church’s wheat ground at their steam mill just off of Water Street in Nauvoo. (Cyrus Peck and William Manhard to Newel K. Whitney and George Miller, Article of Agreement, Nauvoo, IL, 2 Aug. 1845, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU; Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. M, pp. 387–388, 19 June 1844, microfilm 954,600, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
The iron foundry formally owned and operated by Hiram Kimball had been run by Samuel Simpson and Morgan Phelps since December 1844. (See “Nauvoo Foundry,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 1 Jan. 1845, [3].)