Show -- 91- seat Other than the church officials there were those who affairs of the community The first controlled the temporal officers of the Hen Gila Land Company mere President Harry n Payne Vice President Secretary After the contract of purchase many of the Company members were unable to property immediately due to the fact that been planted and re re to be harvested In F W and J Jones 13 Jones had been signed move to their crops had already order not to have their land idle they voted to reht their acreage for one year to the four Mortensen brothers who re re also members of the company The four brothers selected the old Methodist parsonage as the site for the first year’s location This old parsonage was built in 1S90 and deeded to A C 'Yendham 2& when the Reavls Land Grant Fraud was settled In the division of the property at Vlrden the communal system was adhered to by the Mormons is simple and equitable to be twenty one Tills plan in detail In the case of Vlrden there were participants in the division of the land each to have sixteen acres of fain land and nine acres of A J Reavis had claimed a tract of land 7S miles -ide running east from the Salt River in Arizona to a point The claim consisting of beyond Silver City b 000 acres was a congressional issue in I6S7approximately The claim w s settled by the government engineers estimated finally at acres Reavis wished to have more wealth than either Gould or Vanderbilt 4-000- 0 |