[David O. McKay Office Journal] ... the First Presidency returned to the north Board Room and met with Brother Alvin R. Dyer, formerly President of the Central States Mission, and Assistant to the Twelve, on developments in Washington, D.C. on the proposed Pattonsburg Reservoir which threatens to inundate the Adam-ondi-Ahman site, near Gallatin, Missouri. David S. King, Congressman from Utah, has conferred at length with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C. about the project. They show an earnest desire to respect the Church's wishes in the matter. It was felt that rather than the First Presidency write a letter fo the Chief of Engineers, Alvin Dyer should go to Washington, D.C. and quietly confer with David S. King, our Senators, and the U.S. Chief of Engineers with regard to an alternate site for the location of the dam farther up the river, which would preserve the properties we now hold at Adam-ondi-Ahman, as well as surrounding areas which are sacred to us as a people.
[Source: McKay, David O., Office Journal]
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