Show F A Tletjen and F P II lei son cane to Investigate the Bluewater Valley In 1SS6 these Mormons from St Johns out by the bishop of that Arizona were sent ward to Investigate the possibility of settling these widely advertised sites The feasibility of constructing a dam a Mormon project at the junction of Cottonwood Creek and Bluewater Canyon was approved as a project of exceptional merit The soil was rich and suitable for intensive cultivation The agricultural area was about five miles long and about the same distance in width the known facts at hand the two Mormon investigators 21w With re- - turned to St Johns to report their findings F P Nielson stated that the location of the dam was to be about nine miles west of the site chosen for the town but stated a single canal could be constructed so as to provide a network of ditches to irrigate the entire valley A then formed to purchase land and In the customary fashion of the Mormon Mormon company was construct the dam the land was divided and in the spring of 1901 the farm products were harvested and permanent homes had been 21 first established the fall of the The community was constructed by Albuquerque Mora lng J ournal February 17 1886 The settlers of the San Juan valley had petitioned the territorial government for a' wagon road from San Juan to some place near Bluewater to meet the railroad |