| Show FROM HEW f MEXICO ktc 01 TfWli Round About by Cider Andrew Jensen Janrne7 ht allrrrll7 It tIbtdA 141 Plata 10 1 IpiuIfl sannrn mad 11111 V dI 7 Httor Vtunt Ve wr OaMiNO Grant County N M March it 194 On Friday morning the iSlh Inst with Elder Wilham f In wnpnr r IIron who was called on a special mission lo take me to Silver City I left Luna alley tnvllnff In a heavy turn bound for Mexico For hf wagon about a miles our road led up a sleep rocky can on unlll the summit of Ihe francisco mountains was reached yarn hence I we traveled don grid over ntrruw rocky dugways sleep lillls and through rocky gorges where the road WAS a s near no road nt all as anything alter travel I have ever seen frailly ng during the diy 25 miles we round ourselves encamped for the night at the head of a canyon which lien llrown tilled Geleecc Tho next morning we climbed a hill which was as near per ptndicular as any part ol the earth could nouibly be and be climbed by a leans nJ on reaching the top we had the 1Ila lion to know that although enrolling only a distance or something bee I lull a mile we were advanced on our iuurney about ciz l miles besides aping about Icily crossings of the San Fade j I c bonr i About wehad ao taken miles I from so our ciupiog ground of the previous u ijit we reached Ihe little mining town i Anna situated At Ihe point where iime nl t Creek puts l Into the Sin Fran 110 river and ten miles further don pee I im named 1 stream we reached Ihe 11 led Williams Valley where the v irmun setllcment known as Ilea jni m stood from 1881 to about teas sh nit was broken up Il partly became oI t the prosecutions which at Hut time were Inaugurated agalnit our people who had married beyond what the I rounds taw 1 I allowed and healthy be auto a Mr Wheeler who had entered ti luwmlte in behalf fA ed people moved t untrue to his trim and ilnpowl 1 ui l he ite I on which a number or good and substantial buildings had already erected to a nun fl lornton which i de vuatlon preferable At one doter rr were about tic only fntilitl of the nnii ridding here and n complete ud i organlutlon with Wm C Met Me-t rllun AS lllshop was effected In Octo r tvsj II was also here that Jacob II 1 mbhntheramous I Indian missionary T on August ji 1886 alter f nearly all it f stints had vacated the place Ills I I ems were exhumed three years later Jht 1 re l li n I interred I at Alpine Arizona In lees is I j Wllllamt 1 Valley was named m honor of Gco C WlllUiiK I also known 01 Parson Wllhami who em lucid I the fulness or tbe Gotptl at this blare and afterwards presided as uioi t ol the lleber 1rdn b Iuna alley lie U I now engaged founding i Colony of Saints In Sonora Mexico U is is a very desirable locality I T Ito vilify wliich Is penelMtediby the San I I cane Isco river Is about 3 miles I I long 13 nf null M average width I of i mile It Is about w miles Irons Luna Valley about i same distance 1 from Silver Coy and i ally y i miles from the nearest settle t icnK or lice Saints on the GI1 in the St l Jo < ph Stake nl Zion Williams Irhnow Wiley It I now occupied by six families rI which only one claims any Interest itr I burch Theo has been no Church TUniiatlon here since 1885 when the Ii top and others of the I letdlng men hlle j U their departure I 1 Into old helen Fcen Ui Sunday morning the lath lint wes we-s re ay ale on our way and nude a MI aril I f journey of 30 milt lo the Ma tn r where we encamped lor the night II j I riteraller the treaty of Giudaolupe Hi ilno lob I 3 lS4S became the boun > i i b lueen the United States and I v o but through the Gidsdcn pur j In ttl i the present boundary was Ihrd On Monday we traveled I nir crossing the continental divide it m the head waters or the Marcos tributary of the Gila Into what U inoi n as the Mimbrcs basin front dill lithe streams have no outlet Into th I ocean but kink Into the ground or HKippiar In likes like those rising in the b sin ol the Great Silt Like ArrivIng 1 I Arriv-Ing I > at Silver City In the evening we jund ourselves In one or the principal mll4ei camps of New Mexico tidier City is situated In a narrow valley or canyon south ol the 1ino Alto mountains I It Is the I county seat or Grant County New Mexico I and re contain con-tain several Ilious ind Inhabitants lly trcr at lnItalian aiders Jesse N Smith Ira Hatch and Gco C Wdliimi via lied this city earlv In 1884 and hlred four lecture on the prln actor the Gospel which were listened listen-ed to with marked I attention 1 and iccnici to give I general satisfaction I though It sac at hr < t anticipated I that I ltl violence uoulil be used against the Elders ll f tl y attempted to preach It Is hoped plat thrseied own on this occasion will lev I trail at sonic future day Horn Slher City to Detulng a din tan a ol 4H miles I came yettcrday by i U Uiming 1 Is situated ny an open IU country on leo Southern iaclfii and tin Alt hi on Topeka and Santa 1e Unit wa > It K I sometimes called the city citsend ndlts utlce1rout lnum bcrsuf r wand IIi inllls which I of late have b Introduced and built In order to rae the sat underflow of water 60 lot I under ground to the surface then to In uted cur culinary purposes and tar wale I ring I I gardens tar there him living url ce Scream where the 10lvII ll built It I from Doming l lint the railroad pre sled by tho lion John W Young IS i to Mart southward Into Mexico Alter Tiro n nt ring almost Insurmountable tdl > illirs the projectors of this road p i Im known 111 New Mexico I I as the cuaelolDlthat Kallnav 1 are now com J nt tint tdtho cnlerprKu will mil I ralne and that work will be re imr4 In a little while J Tcnson Iuq Mr < Voungs agent Is rtatlritPd here I at Deming 1 I attending to we bu mess of the projected road I and C in 4 paratory u oik looking to blue elm when work shall I I ba commenced an w Ac tin Ilrlgheant Yleung John Inrv Nelicit I nod George feasdale atrlvcd estrrilay afternoon et this i placo Went iI runt Mexico ocompIIII1 by r Robert Ii Wasun 01 ohr ales rlh Lnlhreu have Just cumpklcd I r through t Iho Mrxlcan I eotonlcs I C ipicd I bv the Saints and on Sunday ltbrnel ea IIi hI rd nth Inst they a earnh O > 3a winch they I nimedthe vrj Wart It embraces the Saint I bcQ ami on glee Oavupe river Franklin I bcott wa act apart m bishop I ofI tutu new ward and ViIIlm George C Williams wai st pan as JI first Counselor James II Ille I Laneford though not present at the meeting was set part ai second Counselor Coun-selor A Sunday School a Relief I Society a Y M M I Aa Y 1 P114 I I and a Irmar AssoiUtlun were also organized and the whole ward machinery set In good working order The brethren speak highly of Ihe location I on lice llavitpe river and commend com-mend Cider Williams highly log hH energy anti enterprise as the mainfuiiniltr of snot now promUci to to A pros icrous community ANDRLW JenseN |
