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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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BAPTISM OF SEVERAL HUNDRED SHIVWITS INDIANS BYDAVID H. CANNON AT ST. GEORGE Chapter Eleven First Agriculture in Northern Arizona There can be no doubt that the first agricultural settle-ment in northern Arizona was by a Mormon party, ledby Henry W. Miller, which made location at Beaver Dams,on the north bank of the Virgin River on the earlier Mormonroad to California. On a tract of land lying six miles belowthe point where the river emerges from a box canyon, landwas cleared in the fall of 1864, crops were put in and thenthe enterprise was dedicated to the Lord, according toa report by the leader at Salt Lake. An item in the DeseretNews tells that Miller was called in the fall of 1863 togo to the Virgin. Early in 1865, another report told, affairs in the set-tlement are progressing very satisfactorily. A large numberof fruit trees and grapevines have been set out. Corn,wheat and other vegetation are growing thriftily and thesettlers are very industriously prosecuting their severalusef

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