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Show - 33 - wa s constantly growing., it would be necessa r y to organize new settle - ments and that it proba bly would be ac visuble f or the s a ints gathe red f rom Georgia and t he other southern s t tes to locate in some tavorable spot in the weste rn portion of Texas or in decision as to where the settlement sh ould t he judg,ment of Elder Morgan . With this responsibility given h im , he and El der Lisenbee, after spending a day or so visiting a bout va rious his t oric places in ~orth er~ Georgi a and southern ~ ennesse e , cont inued their j ourney in hors e and buggy to Chat tanooga , Tennessee , a rriving the r e t he 28th of June . Hi s purpose in going to t his city was to discus~ort~tiom r e te s r er the va rious r a i lroa]]) to va rious points i n Colorado , New Mexico, and Texa s . This was his first experience in deal i ng with rail roads f'or ·mass transportation of emigrants of which , howeve r , in later years .. , he was to do so much in migrat ing the s a ints f rom t he s outh to t he set t lements in t he San Luis Valley in Colorado a s well as ~ settle; e en~~i ~tah and Ariz ona . After completing their work in Cha ttanooga , El de r Morgan and his companio , El der LisonbeJD re t urned to their f ield of l abor in Walke r County, Georgia , where t hey held a serie s of meetings i n Cedar Grove and other settlements t here a bout . Ce dar Grove 9-.. t hey made the acqua intance of a young Methodist Minister by t he name of A. Henry Mitchell who shortly a f t er joined the church and cont inued in his mini stry but thereaf ter prea ched in hi s church t he Gospel pl an a s t aught him by the two Mormon El ders . Having made the acqua int ance of a man by the name of J&mes Cr-mp-bell who resided a t his home loca ted on the top of Look Out Mountain , the two El ders were in vi ted to sp end a ±'ew c1eys the:re and a ccepted the |
