“These treasures that are in the earth are carefully watched, they can be removed from place to place according to the good pleasure of Him who made them and owns them. He has his messengers at his service, and it is just as easy for an angel to remove the minerals from any part of one of these mountains to another, as it is for you and me to walk up and down this hall…

“I relate this because it is marvelous to you. But to those who understand these things, it is not marvelous.”

Brigham Young – 17 June 1877, Journal of Discourses – Volume 19 (Liverpool, England: William Budge, 1898), 36-38.