September 1876, Zemira’s boys, James W. and Jesse M. arrived from Orderville, also Orville Cox and his wife Mary. By this time James was 17, and Jesse 13. Their help would be a big boost in gathering the peaches and drying them. Besides caring for peaches, they also gathered grapes, starting the latter part of September. They even tore down an old lumber stable to get boards enough to dry the fruit on.
(Comment: Two sons of Orville Cox and Mary, mentioned above, married two of Zemira’s daughters—Amos Cox married Sarah Arletta in 1876. Theodore married Almeda Eve in 1887.)
Zemira was put in charge of investigating about a cotton enterprise in that locality. On the 1st of October he went to Washington to learn if there were any good cotton lands near there that could be bought. He spent a day or two with brethren there who showed him different plots of land which were for sale. He visited the foreman of the “Brigham City Cotton Farm” (known also as Camp Lorenzo in honor of Lorenzo Snow) on the Virgin River near Washington, who gave him an account of their success in building dams, ditches, waste gates, etc. and in planting and raising cotton.
He learned that Bro. A. T. Angell, whose house his family was living in, had left the Order, and was returning to Leeds, and they probably would want to move back into their own house. So his family moved out of the Angell’s house and moved down to Pres. Young’s house again.
From Zemira Palmer's diary for dates given.
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