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Show 292 hundred square mile chunk of mountain timber land in.the Sierra Madre Mountains for the California Land Company. While still in Msxico in 1898, Martineau was ordained a patriarch of the church. Leaving his son to care for his home in Mexico, Martineau returned to Utah in 1908. In his absence, the revolution of 1912 forced his family to flee Mexico and abandon his estate. Unfortunately, Martineau's entire life savings of thousands of dollars was invested in his Mexico properties which he lost entirely. As a result, James H. Martineau died almost penniless in 1921. He was ninety-three. Martineau left a large posterity. His two wives gave him twenty-one 6 children. Nephi Johnson continued his pioneering activities in southern Utah. Upon returning from the desert in I858, he almost immediately organized an exploring expedition for the upper Virgin River Valley. On this trek he became one of the first white men to view Zion Canyon. A road was built and a settlement founded called Virgin City. For nearly eight years Johnson served as the presiding elder there. In i860 he went back to the Missouri River to aid in the Mormon emigration. Traveling with the William Budge ox train, his knowledge of the frontier was of great help to the captain. Nephi Johnson's skills as an Indian interpreter were also utilized in 1862- 63, when he accompanied Jacob Hamblin to the Moqui (Hopi) villages in present-day Arizona as a missionary. Johnson moved to Kanab, Utah in 1871 where he served in the bishopric and was later ordained a patriarch* While in Kanab, he was elected to three terms as a county commissioner. Johnson also served the community for various periods as town president, superintendant of water works, road commissioner, justice of the peace, and mail contractor. In addition, Johnson was a farmer. He was the hus- |