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Show Mormons iu Arizona. The Frescott Enterprise has this to say about the Mormons who have settled in Arizona: Our Mormon fellaw-citizeus, over ou the Little Colorado, huve planted themselves there for good . They have constructed dams, reclaimed Innd, built themselves homes, and are now over their moat serious trials. They bavo, so far, been peacable and law-abiding, and say they intend to remain so. Although far removed from Prescott, their county seat, they do not ask for a new county, believing that it is better and cheaper for them to tarry in ..Yavapai than to cut loose from us and Bet up for themselves. In this they are right. Their rules are such that private disputes dis-putes are settled without recourse to law, so that their business with courts and lawyers will not be apt to call them there very often. Still, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact tbat thousands thous-ands of other Mormons are coming to this territory; that moat of those now on tho way here, as well as those who will come after them, will settle along the northern slopes of the Mogollon, San Franciaco and Bill Willi m mountains, and that the year is close at hand which will see Arizona with one or more Mormon counties. Our non-Mormnci citizens are not averse to the coming of the "saints," and why should tbey be, since their greatest desire has been to see our waste places settled and improved by industrious immigrants? The Mormons have a belief that, no matter how dry and barren a country may be, they can, with tbe aid of the Lord, make it "blossom as the rose," aud we are half inclined to believe they can,- judging from what they have already done. Their "equalling" "equal-ling" along our best railroad route the 35th parallel argues well for the speedy building of a rood thereon. It will, at least, afford another argument argu-ment and inducement for the build ing of a rood upon Baid route. Should our delegate in congress iBecura the appropriation asked for opening and repairing wagon roads in ibis territory, the road hence to tbe Little Colorado will be made more passable, which would prove a great blessing (or toe Mormons and us, and, perhaps, for tbe people of Colorado and New Mexico, who could then get the benefit of some of our trade. |