Show IV CHAPTER HORIiOn COLONIES The passage of the first recorded But it the III NF7 "Mormon appearance of MEXICO Battalion" io probably Mormon a in Hew Mexico not many years afterwards until these first were followed by missionaries from Utah and Arizona was Mor-mo- p3 territories Then came the slow process of permanent colonization of favorite mission localities and other suitable places RAUAH Permanent locations of the Mormons were first to the church historian made at Savoya according New Mexico missionaries made homes in a valley known as Savoya east of the Indian village of Zuni Here they constructed a small meeting house and raised a small crop of hay At the termination of their mission they returned to Utah and the location was vacant for two years In 1377 Lorenzo H Hatch was called to labor He decided to take over the site of among the Indians The reason for this decision Is probably Tenny and Smith In 1C74 due A M Tenny and to the small me R S Smith house which two still stood from two years before Furthermore the Zuni Indians had requested the Mormons to come and teach them the white man's way of mm |