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Show abOut/' both. villages,. Maxica.n.a bad located. ear.liel",,"in...this.', vicinit7 MonAOfts"'made,:-settlement, t-arther do_ the ·River. 'there'may have been an A-rarr officer, named Hunt, liYing perhaps a mil:' east of the tuture ',HUl'It· postof:fice. t- seem.. hcwev.:r,. that, the. village;.was not named' tor bim When the . I . ' .. '< . _ . probabl, The first Mormon tamil"in tha.,w'ciDit7 was, that Thomas who came ·tber8'" in' 1879 L. J e8tabli8bing, hi.s. cattle interests in A numb-er',of' the, JIlaaora :ot.-l,his. the' vl.einit7 tam.Ul':.;lat.er IrDved to' therewe" beeame-.' a and Holbrook;' cquainted. ,'witb" them.:. ., ·I. rememlDer tbe '-in, old Hwat.:·.v1cini.t1" BQmewha' as. "a' house.,.' ot, the· the' side road".; and"!lave"'·not,',rorgotten/the:bl. and kind11 "Grandma G'r-efJ,":who;-oooke(l'lIe"',L .dinner. one da7' wben·.:l: ,.chanced to there; and then, when she learned mJ identit7 with pioneer !QJIll.lies ot St. Jospph, refused pay theref'or---unle8s it be a Abo\t\., 1901., David, K. Udall. of. st. Johns-. ,watermelon. may ha 1'8' lived- tor a time· at .Hunt.. ,,'In earliea time;, I think:··t,he: place was known 'as' !'Greer- Vall-eT".< The>w1f'e,·,o.t, Da.vid,;K •.Udall_, ,I be-' 11eT&- 8 daugbter of.: Joba--"HWltt.';:Or, snowflake.,,,,,, been the ',£11'8'\ 'post. Gr:er, ' ,f' .. c- ' Greer,.ranehholl8e., , th sto , . ... ' . . , 1 m1stns-s'herG'J-' md't-·al.thg}t-mwr:fath.r: :ntq..ne_r:=;ha,;Y8t-llyed 'at th8;·:tittle ,v.l.llage-:j· I,.ft, unclerstood.,.that,.the .plae'g:..Led in his As elsewhere, honor thro.gb her efrort' t,e few people at Ht ,weN "'paatoral' ·and agr1eul tural. ' _ ,;," .. : . . f ,.t';-. : ,,' .tJ 'keadovS= "The TIli·Sl excellent!" grazing: on the Little . : 8OJI.';(" .or, 10"m.iles below .. Johns, into poasession ot th.'Mormen8 came 16, 181', tbroup·purchase,_". ·''''·lLLcT'''en:,'p.$pa, .t:.'it: trfa!·t ·.h<D"tHn.,· .. \".:eoJl.• .,;,·to::-the':AM.zona cbunt17 evehl years 'earlie.r from: New Merico (see'· "st. Johns). * i iriiBl'lg the Mormon- settlers" at "The 'Meadows" in 1879, was Ira Hatch, loy. " Colorado, .ai.te, I thiBk '. .. earlier in the Slnset-Brigham' e1t)f., area, and a long-time Indian mis sionary; Sdot ,the, time··w1th:· Jacop Hamblin." Hamblin ,had been --sueceed«l,,"in the -Little Q)lorad Stake- Presidency ,as 1st:, Ci:bunselor to":Peesident: Lot· Snith, .as voted;; at·_,COnference." March -L, 1879, b)" Wm. .C-- All,en"ol: it' Joseph. ': ,HamDiin,:wa8,,·soon.;-sent,to· work among the Skints.in- the', Uppel' Little·, eolorado:-countr;yperhap8 ,in the springerville-Eagar area, where for a' short time he .resided in . •. . old Fort Milligan, a mile west of the new Eagar settlement. *Barth interests purchased for 770 cows, valued at $19,000.00 , 1NCLUDING interests at and in the vicinity of El Vadito (earlz St. .: :_ st. JOhHS· ', w Johns)._ .. I ••• • , ".. ..J') ••• . .• I - rr LI THis regift is historie. It was probably travered by Fra1 Marcos de Niza· and <Cbrona in' 1539-40, evm' before the }\i.o Grande Valley had been ascended by the SPanish (see Spanish Explorations). The first early gold-seeking Spanish 'were. not colonizers, however--the near the Rio the Grande, colonizers from Mexico seem to hav. come up Wbeth as ZUni. west tar close of the 16th centur.y; and then spread as in t.he Uttle er first 8ni.8,h i,Jh8 st. Johns area cRenco;, perhaps from the. Colorado andMweftwa countl'ffeoiit ;;mSfQaHeayra-!'e!'Wrr8i There hact of. record, been Mexicans Pimeria Alta, and. when.. I do- not. know' at Coneho, in small numlien irn the-upper-- Little Colorado. count&S for elsewhere and, St. Johns, and in' the· Springenille area, be and 'years before ,the coming, of tb&'Mormon8 Among these .people Indians were a few venturesome white men', llot Mexicans, perhaps generallr traders in the Little olora40 V'+te7, ... matl{ , |
