The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-03-04
How brigham Young Made Wheat
Corner. "a.

bingham Young is imbued with the
spirit Of prophecy With an eye to the
main chance, and while acting as
middle man i'd spiritual revelation, is
not above "corner" in corn. He is
immensely wealthy; not altogether in
his position as head of the church, but
individually he is worth millions of
dollars. This wealth is parceled out
and deposited at interest in this and
other countries. The secrets of its at
tainment are leaking out, and among
them may be specified his operations
AZ q speculator in grain, working with
the advantages of the relations he
holds to the deluded disciples OF Joe
Smith, and the sole owership of teie-
graph and railroad communications.
In the year 1905, when Young and his
crowd were engaged as contractors
building the Pacific railroads-both
branches-grain was selling in Utah
st prices ranging from one dollar to a
dollar fifty per bushel, and there was
at the same time good supply in the
hands of the farmers. To get this pro-
duce into a "corner" was not diff
ficult thing for Brigham Young, and
he sent the following order:
SALT LAKE Oct. q, 1860.
To the bishops and saints from San
Pete south to Cache Valley north: 1t
is wisdom for you to sell your surplus
grain and and flour to the brethren on
the railroad, before the price comes
down, as it is bound to do before the
railroad gets much nearer.
I'D. H." BRIGHAM YOUNG.
"rhe brethren were B. Young and
his agents; the saints in accordance
with this order Immediately put every
bit of surplus grain and flour they had
into YOung's hands; and, presto! in
sixty days grain had run up to'six dol
lars per bushel and flour in proportion.
The farmers received, in payment for
the grain, the "promissOry notes of
the church," which cost the specula-
tive Brigham just the printing, and he
sold the merchandise they procured for
greenbacks. This rather takes the
wind out of the most successful swIndle
Wall street ever raised its pious hand
in holy horror over. AT the same time
the local tithing houses were filled with
produce, and that also was disposed
Of according to such as tLis:
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. -, 1865.
To c. w. West, Ogden let Earn
est Young, in charge of my teams, have
seventy-five sacks of my flour.
I'D. H." BRIGHAM YOUNG.
And another dispatch runs-'Iet
John w. Young's teamster have thir-
ty sacks of my flour; signed by Brig
ham Young.
Where all this flour went may he
seen by another I'D. H.n over the De-
seret Telegraph Line:
OGDEN, Oct. 10, 1865.
To President b. Young, Salt Lake
City: You had +35 sacks tithing flour
here. HI. S. Young got Is sacks, ]. Is.
Maxwell 10, + Ellsworth 8, j. w.
Young 1S5, Stowell & Mcknight 40,
leaving still balance of III sack here
G. w. WEST.
Similar orders regarding the delivery
of flour and grain out of the various
tithing houses were issued by Young,
and the proceeds of the sales all went
to swell Brigham Yonng's purse. He
is clever, Inscriptions man with
great administrative ability, and a
knack of turning "the peculiar institu-
ton" to his own particular benefit,
and this special corner is not the on
y piece ofrascality he has been engag-
ing