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Show a Mr. A. F. Banta, 'was purchased by the' weekly newspaper, started by v.as edited by H. P, Romney. and thereafter Mormons in January, 1883; A te Mexican War,. military movements percps after coming over travelled down the Ri..o as far as Santa Fe and Albuquerque, Trail Fe the Santa over the mount ai.nous section to the westward far to then and Granr3e Valley Here the mountains were much 10\1.'er, and the difference in Latd.tude t he south. Even . also snow during teing a factor, there was very little difficulty experienced met especially in winter on t.he and cold, such as might be becaus more of direct Mines were also discovEred in southern Ariz shorter 35th pa.rallel route. all emigrant travel, not only to California but als 0 Cons ona. eqrent Ly nearly. was t.hen all designated, Colorado east of the as the country New to }lexico, some 60,000 emigrants by t.he time of southern route---per1aps t!1is over sed pas the opening of the great C vii far at Fort Sumter in 1861. ad northward r-emoval, of mail Danger from the Confederate t.roops cau sed the service, perhaps mostly to the Oregon Trail, in 1862, and of course freit 1·10st of the ex f'oun' the nor t.her-n r'out.e the more safe. wagon trains als 0 decade were expl.or-at.oz-y peditions sent out by the United States in the 1850 Ll.ed the 35th parallel route; but and military in character, if they t r-ave western Arizona, soon encouraged the discovery f gold north of the Gila,in route. tis more northerly more emigrant travel oer as he s been shown, it could hardly be said sett Ler s north of the ttsettledtt ad country---so few vJere t he that Mrxf.co been successful in bring e servic the had Neither Spanish milita.ry te Gila.. the 3 cerrtur-i.es control under and warlike during Navajoes Apaches ing t.he United the Under the ed" "oc h:)wever, t'1is was States, 1ad country. cupt they decade. 1860 the action mi.Li.t \'leekly mail during ez-y largely accomplished by te over from westward parallel 35th maintained was Albuquerque servic route as early as 1864; but very few emigrants from te eastward settled in the intermountain country earlier than t.he coming of tte IJlormons in t.ne lat Thus the latter found the VaoLey of tI-BLittle ter part of the 1870 decade. wi.Lder-ne s s anset.t.Led Colorado)l practd.cal.Ly During' the Nexican occupation, , ie h ave could not remain long. the uMarvellous Country" "Boet.on parties" entering alredy of te lower Little Color8do in 1876, who moved on'ard because tey fod Te l'iormons acted to t1eir surprise that occupa.tion had already been made. in the matter of i.ck posaess lon of the country bv settlement; but Such conditions, under the circumstances, mentioned the trIO t?king Ly cat.t.l.emen with their large s and the 1880 dec ade , Lat.e 1870' te during hrds, m::lving westward from Texas and across New Mexico entered the upper Litt i€ Colorado Va l.l.ey to occupy much of the "open r-anze", I,Too often, CO'll crossed the toys employed by these wer-e already "out laws" who had perhaps the of 2hEad sheriff", whose New Hexico corder, f'r-om Texas, "but. two jumps t.act.f'u refused. h ad "Lnvd.t.at.i.on to' return onto Texan S6il" they Ll.y qu .but, . The early Mormon co lonists in the upper Lit t 10 Co Lor ado Va Uey, of course Land tit les were disputed bv experLenc ed troub l.e with this rough element. cattlemen who were not f'avor sble to I·lormon settlement of t.he lands they had come to graze; and this was also t.he case 1'oTith the Hexicans aLr eady in the counsometry, whose pursuits were generally pastoral and agricultural, In t:1€ whpt desert country, it coul.d- also be expected that the rights to the Li.mi.t ed water for wouLd also come into dispute. From t1e Earths and supply the Nexi,c ana, irrigation the Hormone ''1 ad ,since no other had been avaf.Lab Le , T1ese were disputed; am "Squatters' rightstt. ned. attempted se i.zur-e of choice lots in even the t.ovns Lt e , only "Land jumpers" |
