The Daily Phoenix

A Mormon paper at Salt Lake City places the number of polygamists in the Territory at 1,000 men, 3,000 women and 9,000 children, and the cost and loss, by legal punishment of all, at $2,000,000, and thinks that the courts would have around them 3,000 crying women and 9,000 crying children. This is probably a pretty accurate computation. One of the beauties of the polygamous system is shown by a statement that within a stone's throw of a prominent church in Salt Lake is the residence of an aged Mormon, who is the husband of a woman and her two daughters. Thus his first wife is his mother-in-law, his step-daughters are his wives, his son by his first wife is half-brother to his other wives, and a sort of uncle to his other children, and—you can study it out further if you want to.