Show £-- -- 39- valley about half a nllo in tridth and about nine miles In each side of the valley are high mountains rrhlch length shelter the valley lands from the cold rinds rhich omaep In the valley proper the land is rich dovn from the vest r vith great possibilities for agricultural production There are excellent grazing lands in the mountain areas nearby lend before being converted to agricultural purposes first had to be cleared of such growths as mesquite walnut ash sycamore and cottonwood trees The The first Mormon on this nroperty was George I C purchased a site from one Gal Hosterlitsky in the vicinity of what later became Oaxaca Williams had difficulties in meeting the oaynento In Williams from Arizona £ I 1SS2 he I I ! s ’ s his orooerty and organized a grout) of Latter Day Saints 17 who bought the land outright By July 1S52 the Latter Day Saints Colonization Company had brought one hundred and eighty people to settle in the valley Here Apostle Brigon f t i ? £ I f - 4 $ ham Young Jr John H Smith and George Teasdale organized In July of 1S93 the branch mas dedicated and named after the tom Oaxaca Franklin Scott ms named first bishop but was soon a subdivision of the church called a branch succeeded by F D Haynore who presided until 1911 A bishop is such more than a member of the church organization 17 Hncvcloncdic Church History w'— null 1— mu nn— Iiinmii Transcripts f I I |