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Show r..... ..all I .... .. '" "" .-- ..... - - - .... " .......... , J' .. ," _, .--,, ot 13-"rran'Mex of' Ar1Zli8' Ses"n Purh8s_ 0118, rid- ext8baiIlf Rio- Grende.-' uth. ot, .th_ tran the rver to, be noted here that' theIt, ril1ht. Territory ot Arizona, 8S outlined in 1960- b yconvention hald in '!\1cBoif included-o&J,y the Gadsden strip in what i s now Arizona,. and extended eastwrd river. - souh roi';"wa,s set 1nolud. hat tr1p io .. ,"lfn,chcolorado the" __ . -_ - -_ to· negotiate' the" ' _ 8 . · to the pecos . -C-osslbl a f or the memb era ot Slavery disputes made it -..!-' Congres to, get toon the matter ot transcontinental railr gether oads until atter the secession'ot - the southe States in 1861. The first ro finished at Promontory POint on the Great ern Pacific. through the Gadsden strip d ;elo;eted ke May nort'hwas the Union pacific, 10, 1869. '!he south W8S' ccmpleed through ArizOllB in 1880; ern Arizona in 180,. end the Atlantic &. Pacific thrOUgh u..-l. This railroad ttl aments on the tittle Colorado wes oonstructed as far west as the Mormon in lB81---the first work train arriving at oseph NovEllllbe 3rd of :that year. s:t . - • ' , The caning ot the ra Uroad aroused consld' interest among the saints; took somewhat extn8iv. con and john W. Young, Counaelor to the A ostle tracts in the vicinity of the Mor.mon the abandoned Brigh Church his headquarters. leaders for double purpose in City e onies---the perhaps taking this construction work in the vic1nit,y t "erable sttlem:n' sea!Si' U:ing h aVIla exclusiY. teared the intlux o o character remeni1nqUestionable railroad workmen. the with for the along furniShed much'needed Moon reve gtf work t also only near-by of these de8irable tQeViotn1thes'Mbut minimum the to Mormons somewhet gangs of and not reduoed number a e ' or.mon villag.s. ,Decline ot sunset _Its Leeder, Lot Sm1 th the headquarstake---until its de.line in 1880, the tlrl ot the Little Colorado ndssion and the seme was approxima:tely 250, while during average population ot Brigham City sunset's highest settlement was ess tasn 150. period, that of the headouarters other settlament, the deoline and abandonment ot membership came shortly efter the most were-elso almost unsur.mountable, difficulties SUnset's when it reached 181. settle the at than ranches end elsewhere ot its inccae beiJlg produced on au tlying to 100; ])eC. the population had dwindled ment, during its later years. By 1882, to have seem '19 with 6 tamilies. No reports 1, 1885, the mElllbership is given as aDd tamUy smith President Lot this date. been forthcadng from the plece atter the village in end they probably evacuated -were the lest to leeve, it 1s said; Although population by Br1gha. City, exceeded in Sunset was .. ' . ' " TUba City settlement. Here the Moan Coppy, or President Smith later moved to and one-halt miles Smith lived about one he "88 killed tu Indiana June a:> , 1892. his a mile distant fran hed a pasture about east ot the Tuba City settlement; end on two which Indians had turned 'sheep, on residence. Into this pasture, it appears, the animals trespassing them out; but on finding driven shot had Indians smith ocoasions, In retaliation, ·ot them. his land. the third time, shot 8 number smith himselt. tinally shooting tour ot Smith's cows; and in the altercation, the writer inf'onns at. Tuba City, Alfred B. Randall, who at the time was liviJ1g the between sni th and the altercation on his was that the tatal shooting took place atter who smith, of the.m tollowed one some six Indlens---atter shooting the cows, home, and died ami th made his wey back. im wite the his in way home, and shot him On his arrivel home, the last. to consciOUS end was He Brinkerhoff houri later. Bishop David mediately sent to the village tor assistance;and did what they cO'lld to ease the another ot the brethren, responding to the call, then. pain or the dying man. |
