P. T. Barnum’s Offer

P. T. Barnum

 It’s recorded history that in April of 1868 the famous circus man P. T. Barnum visited Salt Lake City and had a chance to speak with Brigham Young. He told Brigham that if he joined him he would pay him what for wages?

a.      $100,00 per year

b.      $5,000 per year

c.       $10,000 per year

d.      $200,000 per year

Yesterday’s answer:

D)   They paid for the land and were slow to extend their boundaries

“One reason is that they do not encroach on their territories as rapidly as we do. They do not require them to be constantly moving. They buy, and are slow to extend their boundaries.”

Hirshson, Stanley P. The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969, 113