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Show I ' .. .. •. I' t" ri. THE UNUCCESSFUL }ronToN HAIGHT COl-1PANY ,1 It'was a years'after missionary number.of '. orado River barrier. i , begun was among Moqui,a before effort" to colonize' the 'country 'south of" the Col- the . work . The first at t.emp t to establish ' 1 settlement a I on .1 i' 'the Little Colorado by led . Haight, Horton D. in t his company venture " J is sf.onar-i.es , , The, .1. as more return trip, the number· ferried· abandoned, than 100 men, The exact number of'persons in 1873. across after the the Colorado 106 men, 6 women, 1 child; but, messengers, End.i.an mismay-have etc. member-s number somewhat different. outgoing the made of the par-ty had' been chosen from var-ious . Uta:-h; ·and. therefoe' ;;- 'h '. comapny of a uncertain---on the seems had been given with was --ery..arglY.' acqitd parts of with each _... . tie' was their Church - . I - membership. more and under _. '01' 'TS'e"y noL 'conditions "were' had"'cro'ssed i;h'e Initial instrUctions ' sandsf,'6"rms"'arid COl'or8.cf6"by May-uth, dig in , . es t iniat.edj :abotit 24 the the river -- _"""A_'*'r-_ . 1873;-·andibl1 the '22nd from the,,'site of the witli -sand and 'green'grass:'outl1: of the miles below Bl.a ck Falls of thy-:foUnditd-foad:blocked 'in _. of guns and.vanmun.i.t.i.on to :ece-ived 'expei'ienc'e '1\0 -- given by the Arizona bound- .. -'AJ.:readytheY_-;'liad -:A.s "t.h ey "could· be fond to 'they to' 'dispose were City March' 8, 1873; Castle -'sth or' water-"hortVagEt,'a:nd -foUnd Little Co'Lorado had Lake cam t"'the U::ttle'"1CoJ:o-radc'-' not -:far "Cameron,' Colorado: Sit at W:l.sor B.; that'- morrth present advice at' extensive and ...... . .u», -...._ P:::;idet' Young tIc those ssembled . , - ... oth- onl.yjin pools; dry river-bed for it. by·sabdl·!drifts.',·Water and at- times' they -". r may have _4'' .J....:r |
