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Show (Roun e area Spri!1gerville of Vall€y). . The came name was 'referredto by the Sja one Harry Springer, from ni.sh an as VaLle Redondo Albuquerqe rner evidently had interests in the section. As in the St. Johns area, Mexicans were in the country before the arrival of the whitemen; and M1en the Mormons came in 1879, they set.t Led to the \-/est and south of the old who chant , town, across first The came which was then Spanish-speaking.and which is said to have been located the Little Colorado River from the. present location. t.he vicinity country in 1871, settling present Eagar. white to the west of te man in was Win. R. at old Fort Hilligan, a I'enneaseean, who Ivlilligan, perhaps a mile rune. . The first Mormons in the vicinity were Jens Skousen, Peter J. Christofferson, and James L. Robertson from t.he St. Joseph Colony, who arrived in February 1879. Wm. J;. Flake came shortly afterward, ""ith !'lis almost customa.ry herd of cows , of A.s in other places in nor-theast. w'1ic!1 he g8,ve 40 .for a planted grain field. did not r enai,n, In Flake Harch of that year,. John T. Eagar Arizona, however; Two trwardslt took up residence some 4 niiles to the southward :>f Sprinerville. and but in 1888 wer-e e st.abl i.shed in 1882, ",D.th sUfl'ested names Amity Orner; these combi.ned perhaps at the present s Lt,e of Eagar---first caning the town "Uni.on", but, later "Eagar" for the Eagar-a living there. - Nutrioso "- "\ The Sra ni.sh "name of gestive of the beaver place, some 16 t1is miles - . : -" '. above si Lngervf.l l e, is _sug vicinity. It is said and the bear then found in the t.o'iave been' settled in 1875 by a iisconsin lumberman---James G. H. w':1o perhaps first came to Round Valley in t.he year just given, and then In 1879, when the Hermons were mving into mved to the Nutrioso country. part this of politics. Colter, Colter sold his ranch to \1m. J. Flake for 300 head was Fred Colter, later somewhat prominent in In this family of cattle. Ariona Arizona, Colter, it is pc:'.rcelled his land among Mormon set.t.l.er-s Flake said, raised barley for the Fort Apache trade. , Lumbering has important industry here, although tpe limited amount of agricultural land is good 2::1d the mountain sides furnish excellent pasturage for cattle and horses. (One of my own cousins married into the Burke family a::1d lived her-e ror some time, 'ier hisband being interested primarily in lumbering). been an T,e grain crop, mostly barley,' was 1700 bushels t.he first year; and it is said t':1is was sent t o t1e Lower- Little Colorado l\:ormon sett '.ement s , since .... t'1ey in dire wer-e need, ---a "loan" repaid later. A prot.ect.Lve fort was built in 1880 because of apparent danger from the No attack was made by tle redskins, although it is said sma l.L A ss.w-mi.Ll, was set, up in 1881; ard places had been l,riped out in New l"lexico. Apaches.' tn 1883, a post.of'f'i ce was established. Greer A few Me-rmon fcrni1ges also settled at "Greer" in 1879, vhich did not re ceive its present name until 1896. A saw-mill had been erected t he previous -year; and a postoffice was established in 1898. |
