Great Salt Lake City, Sep. 14,1857 Brother Philo Farnsworth, Beaver Co. Herewith you will receive the Governors Proclamation declaring Martial law. You will probably not be called out this fall, but are required to continue to make ready for a big fight in another year. The plan of operations is supposed to be about these. In case the U. S. Government should send out an over-powering force we intend to desolate the Territory and con¬ceal our families, stock, and all of our effects in the fast¬nesses of the mountains, where they will be safe, while the men waylay our enemies, attack them from ambush, stamp¬ede their animals, take the supply trains, cut off detachments and parties sent to Kanyons for wood, or on other service, to lay waste every thing that will burn - houses, fences, trees, fields, grass, that they cannot find a particle of anything that will be of use to them, not even sticks to make a fire to cook their suppers, to waste away our ene¬mies and lose none. This will be our mode of warfare. Thus you see the necessity of preparing; find secure places in the mountains where they cannot find us, or if they do where they cannot approach in any force, and there prepare for families by building some cabins, cacheing flour and grain. Flour should be ground in the latter part of winter, or early in the Spring in order to keep. Sow grain in your fields early as possible this fall so that the harvest of another