Show -- 70- sevcral stone buildings The stone is quarried nearby Other buildings have been remodeled from what were originally adobe structures The diseontinuarice of adobe was duo mainly to the devastating effects of the spring floods which overflow the irrigation ditches and melted the adobes at the foundations Hence there is a preference for more oermanent building materials Most of the inhabitants of the settlement are farmers who produce vegetables and fruit3 for home consumption There are others engaged in raising com hay and oats for marketing in Gallup Grants and among the neighboring Zunl and Kavajo Indians Potatoes were at one time the means of excellent livelihood but recently bumper crops in potatoes have failed Other sources of revenue are few There is an worlc in the coal nines which supply the Indian Agency at necessities of a frontiersman the Mormons of Hamah need little Usually the non hire themselves out in some sort of laboring position during the winter to reThose men preparing for their coup the family finances Zunl Beyond the church obligations leave home to earn enough coney to fulfill "the mission" In the wanderings of the missionary it is not uncommon for Ray Clawson him to become a native of sufficiently attached to Hamah and a of a graduate Teachers College stated that it was probably due to the lack of early seasonal rains and the poor quality of potatoes planted |