Show -t- Jl- ranch property to a small company of Latter Day Saints This land consisted of nine thousand acres in all This quite some undertaking for a snail group consisting of But with a will the hardy pioneers twelve families at first set about their tasks and on February 11 1900 the town plot was was surveyed and lots drawn by the members 19 the Oaxaca ward participating They were immediately made a branch of founding Morelos did not increase its population in any appreciable degree and when the revolution of 1910 struck that area it was no great task to evacuate the little After its property here suffered from the revolutionists in a similar manner as did that at Oaxaca Far the larger number of Mormon immigrants moved into the state of Chihuahua The fact that the Sierra Madre mountains senarated the Mormons in Sonora from those in Chihuahua left the former in an undesirable position as far as connections with the Mormon capitol of Mexico was conThe difficult passage through the mountain fastness cerned precluded any commercial and social contacts which were so vital to the Mormon welfare In consequence of such conditions Morelos ana Oaxaca were not given serious religious economic and social consideration as sites for colonization colony The Horn on branch is one of the several divisions ofA church organization The branch is smaller than the ward mission is the smallest organization 19 A |