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Show ELDER MORGAN CorraIel in Denver by it Newspaper News-paper Man, And Has a Few Words to Say About the Mormons, Arizona and Utah. The Denver Seta of August 11th lias the following: A man below the medium build, with a lloi id complexion and likewise ban and beard, sharp brown eyes, walked to and fro in one of the hotel corridors yesterday. That was Elder John Morgan, Mor-gan, one of the big pillars of the Mormon Mor-mon church. Not many people have ever been to Salt Lake city, or within the lines oi the great territory where Latter-day Saints thri e, who have not heaid more or less of Elder Morgan, it is s.iid he possesses a great deal of personal per-sonal magnetism, and it must be true, for he iias won the reputation of having naiued more converts within the oast ten y ears than any other disseminator of the Mormon faith. Ten years ago w hen the Mormon elders were sent into in-to the south to proselvte among the Tar Heels of North Carolina and the Crackers in Georgia they met with such success among the illiterate classes class-es that the peoj ie decided to drive them out. They fried peaceful means, but the elders stuck to their converts like leeches. A coat of tar and leathers leath-ers administered to about a dozen had no effect, but there was a regular exodus exo-dus oi tne elders after a crowd of Georgia Geor-gia farmers killed live elders. Mr. Morgau w ent into the territory w here : the trouble 'occurred and demeaned himself in such a manner that he won the respect of the people and very soon he had eighty elders working in the southern territory. The grow th ot the church in some of the mountain sections sec-tions was very rapid, but those who w ere converted generally represented the very scum of society, whose departure depart-ure to the land of Mormondom created no regret. i'erson lly Elder Morgan is a very pleasant gentleman. He has lots ot iiiendsin Denver, and after iloating around among them for some time he was met by a Set's reporter. I am spending most of my time in Arizona now," said Mr. Morgan a iter exciianging greetings with tne reporter. "Our people lind that territory a good section in which to locate hundreds of our converts as a great deal ot line farming land is being opened up. 1 go down from sail Lake and locate the different colonies. The land is free to whoever goes in lir&t and we are leading lead-ing tiie van.1' "Are you securing many converts from foreign countries'?" "Yes. a great many, most of them come over in the fall and w inter and get ready for the next season. Where do we. send them? Why to Arizona principally, but of course some perler to go to Utah. We have secured im-men.-e tracts of land along the Gila river and it is the very Eden of that portion of the West. There is an abundance ot (d' water for in igatou and with plenty of moisture great yields of grain, iruits, etc., are secured. I cannot iinagin -a more fertile spot th ui along" the valley of the Gilla river. "Have you many elders proselyting I m the frouthr "Oh, certainly, not only there, but in nearly every section. We have been making great strides and have colonies col-onies in many of the wesiern states and territories, and also in New Mexico. The church is growing in Col rado, but we are not making much fuss about it. We secured li'o.OOO acres of laud in the San Luis valley, along the Rio Grande and Conejos rivers, w nich is being settled set-tled up very rapidly by our people. In addition to this land many of our converts con-verts have gone into that section and bought laud. On the w hole the Mormon Mor-mon church is in pretty good shape, and our people have no cause to com- j plain." , j Elder Morgan went to Santa Fe last night. |