Show -- 90- twenty one men invited to Join the corporation were signers of the notes to Valter Vlrden and Cheery the former owners of the ranch ten of whom L In view of tho liberal terns given to then by Virdpn and his partner the He had been Mormons named their new location Vlrden president of the Gila Ranch Company both of which had been controlled lived in Iowa Virden is located in the northwest corner of Hidalgo county Mew Mexico approximately eight miles east of the Arizona line The main road to Virden is State Highway There Is also C S Highway Humber ISO which Hunber £2 runs from Silver City south to Lordoburg intersecting 3tate Highway Humber S2 only seven miles to the east of Virden In the church history Virden is listed as belonging to the St Joseph stake of Arizona This is probably because of the fact that Virden is very near the Arizona settlements and by Virden and Walter Cheery too distant from the Ranch property was Hew Mexico whom settlements Tihen the Gilo first occupied by the Mormons the county of Hidalgo had not yet been created The Mew Mexico created Hidalgo County State Legislature 27 While Virden community was creasing In population Lordoburg was 27 Hew Mexico Session Laws of Chapter II Section I in the 1919 session in- selected as the county State Legislature 1919 |