125 years ago today - Monday, Jul 8, 1901

[Apostle John Henry Smith]

Manassa

During the afternoon we held the stockholders meeting and Reelected the old board of the Mexican Colonization and Agricultural Co. John Henry Smith, Anthony W. Ivins, A. F. McDonald, Albert R. Smith, L. P. Helm, L. M. Petersen and Thos A. Crowther. Some reports were read and accepted & filed.

The Directors were sworn and organized with President John Henry Smith, Vice President and Manager A. W. Ivins, Secretary and Treasurer, L. M. Peterson, Ass. Secretary Henry Eyring.

I put into the Treasurers hands $50.00. Three dollars each was paid to the Directors for last years service and five each to the secretary and Treasurer, expense going out $8.00.

[Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith]