Show -- 53- miles It was here In 1S9 that a croup of Latter Day Saints from Dublrji purchased a considerable amount of land covering most of the valley Later that sane year in the I t j 4 colonies in Mexico had done earlier the settlers established themselves in comfortable fcl homes on plots set aside in the regular Mormon fashion The valley lands under careful farming cultured excellent same manner as the other Mormon m s com hay and potatoes Hogs and cattle were also raised and marketed elsewhere Grazing lands are secured from the rail- - : i ‘ t road at a very nominal hundred and sixty acres sum Each farm consisted of one The gardens were irrigated by water from nearby springs which was retained in small dirt reservoirs Early in the history of this colony the members r s r i i j 1 i erected an imposing church seating over three hundred people Andrew Jensen does not state how the colony got the name Chulchuoa but orobably from the valley in which it is When the colonists were led here by Sixtus E located Sixtus Johnson and hie brother Beryxnan J Johnson in 1S9 j I j ' i j 6 I I i leadership of the colonizers The two brothers alternated the leadership until the exodus of 1912 was given the when In 1917 the colony was resettled G T Encyclopedic History of the Church 2 December Letter 1936 from Andrew Jensen to II M I t Sevy was made Ho 169 Foster I ? I t t t i |