Show -- 33- Vihen he returned to Utah the church authorities be- interested in hie report and sanctioned a new rnieslon consisting of three men These men Orocon Pratt James Stewart and Alexander Trejo ere to investigate the ooocibllities of colonisation in the Mexican area -- ore specifically They reported at Salt Luke City in 1377 to the affect that it was "not advisable to attcmDt coloniza- 7s The report was packed tion in that region this early tvith references to the warlike Aoache Indians in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua Mexico Neither the United States nor the Mexican governments had been able to abate the fury of these Indians consequence of this fact the church leaders deemed it wise to drop the matter of colonization came Sr 11 for the present In 12 S2 however Alexander F MacDonald who was at time presiding elder of the llaricopl stake along the Mexican border in Arizona Trent into Mexico and selected a that Tro years possible locations for settlement later ltS'l the church hierarchy advised the border stakes number of 3 October Letter from Andrew Jensen to H U Foster 1935 Encyclopedic Church History Ho !4l These are alphabetically arraigned articles concerning church history In care of the Church Historian |