Show -- 51- snail tract of land The President of and had completed nn irrigation system the Juarez 3ta’:e Anthony 'V Ivans refused to sanction the movement due to the fact that It eras too far distant to con nrjrG The n orison 3 had purchased only a i ’ venicntly carry on tho church programs closed and the few families already there project eras moved bach to The Dublan GARCIA the plains and in the valley of the Casas Grandes river there were several which were situated In the foothills of the Sierra Hadre mountains The first and oorhacs the most fruitful of the mountain Besides those locations on ' 37 At that colonies was settled early in the year of 1S9 time Alonzo L Farnsworth and wife located in a beautiful circular valley situated on the eastern slope of the Sierra Here the valley has about thirteen hundred acres of Kadre is irrigated from small dams built higher in the mountains Water for household use and garden Irrigation comas from a dam built on the tiny River Garcia The colony tool: Its name from this river The agricultural land dedication of the and town-si- te tooh place in 1295 37 Encyclopedic History of the Church 3S ibid 3S Ho Garcia 337 |