Jeffers writes at the request of a number of persons of a Catholic society as regards church affairs. In 1861 a building was erected where Mass was said occasionally by a priest from Bay City and Saginaw City. In 1863 the present church was built, due to new impetus of immigration by the discovery of salt in this valley. The former church is designed and desirable for a school. There is a dwelling house, suitable for a rectory, which Father Remigius Van der Heyden is about to purchase. The church is overcrowded; the population is 1/3 Irish, the rest Germans and French. Jeffers asks for a permanent priest, either Irish or German. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.