Show -- 7- For upon their arrival at Santa Fc George n GlbGon writes New Mexico October 10 being a well trained yet disreputable looking group while In Santa Fe The Mormon battalion pitched Its camp on the ridge Just above Santa Fe creek They remained here until ordors were received for their advance These orders came In the 1$H6 latter part parties that of October of the Mormons While encamped here two scouting had been ordered by Kearney into the Navajo country on the San Juan river returned and reported their 12 achievements It must have been from these scouts that the later first heard of the San Juan river which was one scene of their colonization in New Mexico 3oon after the return of the Indian scouts to Santa Mormons all soldiers to be ready to march and preparations were completed for the combined forces of Kearney and Price to move on to California Since dispatches Fe orders were given to had reached Santa Fe informing Kearney of the exact conditions 11 Ralph P Beiber Editor Journal of a 3oldler under Kearney and Donlnhan by George R Gitioori (Glendale: Arthur K Clark Co “1935) P- -' 257 12 Ralph P Beiber on clt p 257 On September 15 lS&b Kearney ordered two companies of men sent to quiet the Ute and Navajo Indians A successful treaty was negotiated and the men returned to Santa Fe The reports showed the San Juan valley was capable of producing fine crops and that it was some 130 miles to the northwest of Santa Fe p 2SS |