Show -- 45- Into a valley some sixteen nlleo southwest of Accen-2- 2 This was in the year 1SS5 and moot of the settlers nion were from placeo in Arizona They wore led by Jesee and Lot Smith from Dnow Flake Arizona A location in the center of moved the thousand acres was the nite chocen for the forty-fi- ve village of Diaz in honor of the President of Mexico The surveyor laid out a town consisting of one hundred and forty four blocks each block consisting of twenty seven new 23 Apostlea F II Lyman and George Teasdale were in Mexico at this time directing the occupation of the new area The meoquite flat in the valley was rioh and plowed rods fields were soon appearing in the colony of Diaz chief drawback of the site was the constant wind The which 2b swept through the valley causing annoying dust storms profitable the exiled Saints agreed upon a common herd and cattle raising was entered into on a The Saints at Colonia Diaz were most enterprising scale organized into a regular bishop's ward on October 2b 1&2S Ylllian Derby Johnson Jr served as Dishop until 1911 when he was succeeded by Earnest Von Romney who presided until Even though farming was 22 gncyclooedlc 23 Ibid 2b Ibld History of the Church Mo 227 |