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Show 284 the settlement process did not stop with Meadow Valley. Using Panaca as a base, the s e t t l e r s leapfrogged into adjacent valleys. Eagle Valley, eighteen miles northeast of Panaca, and Spring Valley, five miles further north,1 6 were settled by the Mormons, although they were very small. In I872 only fifteen families lived in Spring Valley. Today i t is the s i t e of only a few ranches. Fanning out across present Lincoln County, Nevada, the Mormons also settled in Clover Valley in 1865 where Dame's Cave Spring r i s e s . In 1871 sixteen families made t h e i r home in Clover Valley near the place where Charles Hopkins planted his settlement t h i r t e e n years before. Today the tiny railroad towns of Barclay and Acoma stand in t h i s valley. Barclay i s about one mile west of Hopkins's attempt. The Snake Creek farm was resettled in l a t e r years as the town of Garrison, Utah. The valley was settled mostly by non-Mormons, especially in the early years, and no t r a d i t i o n of the farm on Snake Creek seems to have survived to the present day. Not only did these non-Mormons have l i t t l e information about the White Mountain Expedition, but there was probably very l i t t l e physical evidence t o t e s t i f y of a settlement in Snake Valley. The f i r s t permanent settlers arrived in I869, eleven years after the mission was called in. The fields and ditches of George W. Bean's exploring company had probably been reclaimed by the desert they were hewn out of. One report asserts that fifteen or twenty 17 families resided in Snake Valley by 1873, with quite a number of bachelors. Despite the claim by Assistant Church Historian Andrew Jenson at the turn of the century that "the mission., .brought about no results for practical purposes," 18 the Deseret Evening News of November 9, 1917 claimed otherwise; "The White Mountain Mission," declared the News, " . . . r e s u l t e d in the settlement of Spring Valley, Clover Valley, Panaca and Eagle Valley." It is difficult to determine the effect the White Mountain Expedition had in s e t t l i n g Lincoln |