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Show Llma ·.was,,·al.read.T occupied. l:¥ the LUDa. .Brothers I sheepmen, bien· imit.ed. .to- res.enting their In.. order ·to c1ear-.:theur-:"\lncertain intrusion' into· the: $heep:raaSl •• "squaturs\-righta!.' to. tb&:-.-lani, the !il'at,_Mon.u ;.to :&.rr±". tJ.ere-' had also in the .Luna vicinity te paf· ·out' the"rlgt8, 'ot 2' prospoore abead of .them.. These ·Mormons,..--the Swapp kot,hers. ,nil.Lorenzo. Wat F«f 2'8 1883:•. 80n arrivect there ado colonies, .• whos.& intersstc-ill-the. Mormons.. ma.y. 4..,. · .. . . .. . •. , . Grant, .·honcring :Apos= Grant,; but:.GrantJa , New··MC':hto O!l:-t.he Atlant.ie-& PacU'ic Railway· was:' soaewba.t.: :contlieting.,-.and. _th& name ,.. cAaDled:.·to· "HeberH; At tirst,. the MOrRlOltc;'.loeation .. ltas.:' call.e«. tle Heber·J·. , •. · .. .. for Hebe,r,,·C>(imball·;." but -HeDoI'.,·"a.lr.$&q;-ieatabl.iBhIMLJ\in;,'what 'ls now'Accord recorda. Nav·ajo·; O'ount,.; ,Arizo.ft& ;ea.\lfN4,"';80m&;.con!lict. on,&hureh· : the nAlIl. "Luna" both names--Grant and Heber were dropped; and .. e , » ingl7, for the;.:,, iltha tttant-8·-has 'H81l:maiJ:ltained ,since . . - .., Pea8antoll)·;New·.!fdtt!2,. -. ,',. • ': . .This plaee:is on .th&· Sin·.Francisco Rlver:,,:,a, little;.atove its junction with the-: Gila. River--about::halt. May htween Alp1ne", Z8tlvGr Cit" New Mexico--was the most southerly Mon 6ettlementomhe The- first' settler, George' Uttle. Colo.rado. upper. d rafnage .. ... Williams, , . his nalJ nth the came ia. 1879;. and apparently left in. "Williams.. Valley", but not. witb- the-village-. general location . the Jacob· Hamhlin,. alter.' his .re.&idencct" at._ .old ·Fort..rMilligan, r.esided :!or.& time· Little ,tl:blo'rado, IU.v8r ,·and- near, Eagar,. perhaps on- . . .. ... where he died at ·Alpine, Arizona; bu.t· lat.er·.moved, to' Pl,easanton, but was _umed at buried \1a8 Pleasanton; Aug .31, 1886. The bod7 in 1889 cemete 1'7 Alpine and re-interreci in the • • As . . - seat-teredo small ,reads. of. ·the: settlement. of tbe, many . one.· colonies --in the·:·Upper. tittl'e aoloradO.::"'ialley,,' an<t::trointhem, coming he may be ·r-eminded-"of·: th.e: MQ.l"mel).:?-c.l:ulrch, policT{'-1l':ft.er· .choi:cec locations in the the, ,:'of to Uta' or obtaining·.; possession b7 .eountTy'·"'as··l'apidlra·s'l'Csai ble, befo·re-,the-y-weFe·'>:O.GCupied haft lbeelt:alread7 enemi.ee; mar: potential :enemi'o;,'- Potential;b..fore'. the,.:·MormllS:':; 'and eas.tera'cAr1zona· cog·.;into: :0£. ·good.loeat,ions-·weo ob.talned, as we ·lia l\J,' noticed.,:-- '& ,·number hea vily setUedm Dr t" valuable, perhapS- betor. they hcame too" who perhaps held only br purehase from original owners, . .. - ... '. flatters rights". x |
