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Show ove the Springerville altitude of approximately 7,000 feet, the country in t. settlements may be said to be in LS area. is mountainous; and the small somewhat is for land limited, although the mountthe f'arrnf.nr; lYOS, where and Nutri.oso are. on Both Greer Summer. in llent exce gra zing 15 rurni.s and Little t.he coming t.oget.her 'near Colorado, lfluent streams forming A few miles to the sout.h and west . Greer. bei6w miles some 17 -i.nzer-vi.Ll.e, from the name noticeable its aparance receiving Greer is Saldy Peak, Arizona's above 600 feet l.l,OOO-foot timberless nearly its summit, are often dense. .mber-Li.ne", be low 11!hC the forests in thls region Little is in t he mountthe of branch main other Colorado, the on oso .r-i , as I remember it well forested dominated by Escudilla 1 Eontain, region s uru:nit, its a litt le below the "t imber-Li.ne". )ine fith !-lis automobile, the traveller today passes over the tt'=ogollon Rim" &:v. then in a few minutes is in Alpi"ne, ie 6 or 8 miles. above Nu trio so, t.han 8, 000 reet , a!1d perhaps one of the' mor-e of perhaps ring an elevation to have successful farming. StEtes United the in Of. course hest regions short-season limited to are the and products, crops Summer- 'i.s short'; Oats grow abundantly, 'ha:s principally oats and pot.at oes , and the like. I rarely is there a crop fiilure, and this generally because of "gr-asshopper tguesll, wich also occaai.onal.Ly come at the Lower- Little Co Ior aco set.t.Lemerrt s , in many other Mormon settlements, there was occupation preceding th coming t'1e Latter-day Saints. Here it was a Mr. 'Andereon Bush,for 'hom thE' vicinity Fred Hamblin The first Nonnons, and W'.10 came in 1876. :; called Bush Valley, I Abraham \,iinsor,. ...·Jith t!1eir families, arrived arch 27, 1879-:---- vie may. here ,s tot most of the Mormon settlements in the Little Colorado area above about the same perhaps ErenEraFy in 1879, w!1ich .druf'f", were e _occ_upied evidence t:le r possible, not Moon only desire to time, -extensively gr-owing numbers, but al.so eemies--they he.d had their own memories, in v-lithin enemies, mass hegira to the Great Salt Lake Val.ley. get posaes sion of the for their wll r-api.dl.y into the possession of teir for prevent it's falling room :ficient troucle from unfrlend-ly isour-i, and Ll.Li.nod s bef'or-e their count.n y as "he experiences of the Saints at Alpine may illustrate t!lis point to some .errt Those "out Law" cowboys from Texas were already in the-country and between the first sett lers were given a wild frontier out Laws and the Apac!1e Indians, 'e The Indians would steal their animals; but they did not t.ske Hormon lives , , may discern t.he effect of the Mormon friendship for the atorigines 'regard for t.hem, even in their vlild stage of ci vi liz&tion, c S "chi ldren Israel". For. a shor-t time about 1881, the settlers moved to Nutrioso, sn here we I their .au se of -. 'hi,s danger; but country is soon over the .. r-eturned, logoilon Divide from the St. Johns region, end Ll.ey, ir,i th ::h:lch t.hi s story particu l.ar-Ly closely connected with the settlement of refore outside the Little Colorado Va tis; but the Mormon settlement was Little Colorado Valley, and perhaps eastward over V1e New Nexico line; V1e 111 colonies may be cons !.dered a part of t.he Eormon sett lement of New Ne,xico give the northern por-t.i.on of i-l:s vest.ern extremity---therefore we wi.Ll, m a little consideration here. Ie ;ave noted te mtry dreins t"1e Gila; dovm and because t':€ place 'mon hi story -eam , The Alpine vicinity. confl.uents h bet the Blue and the San Francisco Rivers, designation • WeS ')f t.he known as "Bush Valley" :)r;x:i_mity "Fr-i.sco" for the of the eadwaters of the latter '0 of its for t.he first year or |
