Show AT CASA ORAXDE InterestIng Xates t front isoatlirrn Arizona CASA GRANDE Tinal County Arizona April 13Caza Grande Is a Email railroad town on the Southern South-ern Pacific and a partial closing of stores I the only indication that this b the Edbbath bbth There is not a Church or Sabbath school in the town The saloons are crowdedand gambling pursuIts are freely and openly Indulged In This is iultr a contrast to the few peaceful Sabbaths Sab-baths spent with the good Saints in Mesa City During confercnrc la MaHcopa County WM frrortcjl that Mesa Ward contained ninetysix families Lehi twcntynlne famIlies Alma fortynine families and Kephl fourteen four-teen families besides the Iapago Ward which wntalus over GOd Lamanlte members A good work Is being done among the Lamanltcs by our brethrvb and i I highly lp l te Your correspondent had the pleas urn of conversing with Brother Cberoquis Kraitu a Marlcopa Indian In-dian holding the office of a Seventy and learned that Deacons and EM ere were being trained In the duties of flue Priesthood Some of the I Lanmnito sisters were nt the conference con-ference accompanied I by orae of their little oncfc all I drosed in I clean tidy fnpstel and clltrltnmed hats We learned that a good Sabiuth school I held In their ward and I well attended A RelIef Society Is alf organized there and meetings are held regularly These are often visited oy listen from other wards wnn who Instruct the Lamailltesln their duties as members of the Church and direct them how to be clean and tidy in their habits Your tedders can hardly malice the amount of work that Is being done by our brethren and sitters in tills direction I President Rolson accompanied by one of his counselors ana ether brethren passed through Casa pe Grande a few days ago on a vl i to several tribes cf Indinift Ih Southwestern South-western Arizona Sud the northwest cfMelico They expect t b gone live or six t and have taken along provisions for themselves and for Inmanites that may accompany them This is a voluntary ruislon at a personal expense of zuvcral hundred dollars eXpu Is undertaken doll bt undertken at the urgent request of and in response t appeals from a people who are anxious t learn tie truth and to hear their past history from the Elder of the only Church which holds the key t I The tnt tribe t be Yiltod are the Pima Indlorc noot SOO of whom nor belong t the Church Two of our young brethren havo been laboring la-boring and living amongst them for some time as missionaries We vUited miny of the ruins in fnlCIJ County which have from tim t time been referred to Iu your columns Floreaei the county seat of Pinal bounty i situated on the Gila illverand contains about 3000 inhabitants in-habitants of whom Mexicans bblbut nianyof u a 111 cans Several mines in the vicinity contribute toward nuking It a bust I nus centrcbutthe nirroa stnets aid t numerous jaw flatroofed buildings I crowded together in true Mexican i style compare very unfavorably cmpr and with Mesa the beautiful cities of Phoenix out ten miles south of Florence a the famous rulusof Casa Gmndo meaning large house The principal prin-cipal ruin reminds tliu visitor of an old Knglfeh castle The walL are of concrete four feet thick 1 The place appears t have been built asa brtress and must have been at least ive stories high Each try con tamed five roams hut in a square the centre room being about fourteen four-teen by fourten fot Tiro small ruin are still standing near and the numerous mounds in the lclnlty indicate that a large ruined city lies burled there The native Indians tate that theirfuthers know nothing of its pa > t hM < ry bt in the future Its story may tie told and llki many otters it will confirm the Hook of Mormon history PJHUSIV |