Show -- 20- 9 used by the Indians and Spanish for small plots of land From such sights the Ilornon learned nucli about conserving the snail amounts of water in the small streams cardinal principle for the Individual to follow was to be continuously occupied Consequently during the winter many dams and ditches were constructed This led to thrift another conspicuous attribute of a Mormon ’which was evident in their colonies in New Mexico Bishop A 0 Reynolds stated that during the most severe part of the er depression in 1935 only four families from Hamah and New Mexico were on federal relief rolls In the The Blue-wat- 193& 'the Mormon year relief church took to care for all its members off the 10 a tithing system The Honorable George F Edmunds stated in a paper on 11 the “Political Aspects of llormonlom" that in the early days of Mormon ism it was the primary aim to establish a state and began them through of purs communism The dearth of man power was a motivating influence in the political philosophies of the church Furthermore the isolation of the Mormons in hierarchy 3 The Spanish acquired Moors when they invaded Spain centuries W 11 Literary Digest June 6 193 p 55 George F Edmunds “Political Aspects of SSR LIV Uarner’s Magazine i II n II H rn-- r methods from the irrigation in the sixth and seventh —ii II mm n J f o Mormonism " |