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Show MORMON COLONY WIS IN NEVADA Church Boys 18,000 Acres to Be Used in Settlement by Members of the Organization. Or-ganization. i Through a deal just closed, the Mormon Mor-mon church has secured control of 18,-000 18,-000 acres of land in White Pine county, Nev., which will be used as a place of settlement by members of the church. The land lies about thirty-two miles from Ely and is said to be especially adapted for the raising of grains. The purchase is in keeping with the policy of the church to arrange for land lor its members. Already. large colonies have been built up in a number of the surrounding States aa well as in Mexico and Canada. It is to these colonies that men are allowed to go and make their home, paving the church for the land ; which they have secured as soon as they can. |