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Title: Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: McClintock, James H., 1864-1934
Subjects: Mormons
Publisher: Phoenix, Ariz. : (Printing and binding by the Manufacturing Stationers Inc.)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e Lake and Wm. C. Allen. The 200 mis-sionaries were called from many parts of Utah, butmainly from the north and around Salt Lake. There was noformal gathering of the companies. Each member wentsouthward as he could, to report to his leader on the LittleColorado. The assembling point was Kanab. Thence therewas assemblage of groups of about ten families each, with-out reference to companies. An entertaining detail of thisjourney lately was given the Historian in Phoenix by DavidE. Adams, captain of one of the Tens. The leading teams reached Sunset Crossing on theLittle Colorado March 23, 1876, the migration continuingfor many weeks thereafter. Allen, Smith and Lake con-tinued up the river twenty miles, to a point about fivemiles east of the present site of St. Joseph. From exact data furnished by R. E. Porter of St.Joseph is learned that Allens company settled at the pointwhere this march ended, establishing Allens Camp. Therewas later change to a point one mile east of the present 138
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NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA—The Little Colorado Country 139 location, a site maintained till 1877. The name was changedJanuary 21,1878, to St. Joseph, after Prophet Joseph Smith. Lot Smiths company retraced, to establish Sunset,three miles north of Sunset Crossing, on the north side ofthe river. Lakes company established itself across the river, three% miles south and west of the present site of St. Joseph. Thesettlement was named Obed. Ballengers company located four miles southwest ofSunset Crossing, on the south side of the river, near thesite of the present Winslow. Genesis of St. Joseph There was quick work in the way of settlement atAllens Camp, where the first plowing was on March 25,1876, by John Bushman and Nathan Cheney. Jacob Morrisimmediately commenced the construction of a house. Twodays later an irrigation ditch was surveyed and on the fol-lowing day John Bushman got out the first logs for adiversion dam. April 3, Bushman sowed the first wheat.A temporary structure was built

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