Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-16

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Of S)lomonville, foriy.oight miles
uorih.west OF Bowie station, the near.
cay railway point on the S1ulhetn
! Paoinc railway, aud ninety miles
s0uthsast % Globe, a noted mining
/ camp. Thatcher Is known fof ils exc
c-udingly rich aud productive soil, 90
no orchards, neat aud comfortable
rick buildings, beautiful flower gar
| .Hns, nh1Iy groves AMI inuustfilus l.'
Isbitants. The present strength Of the
ard is ninety.eight families or $50
l iuis. samuel Cianlge pf1'iuvs ~
Bishop witt Haus y. Chllfon and
| Francls w. Moody ne D0unaalpis.
Thatcher Wa first settled in 1881 and
organized asa ward Ia May 1853
Layton wari, thus named Ia honor
/ NJ Prtaidru. Christopher Layton, lies
! immo Iisleiy elai OF Thatcher, be-
l tween iLuuI IS i0mIuvIilo. ltinCluIes
] also tho ulI town OF -af0r3, which is
sull tho nlmo % iIs pUsiUiilce. In
| Layton proper nearly ali ilu iuhaui.
/ tants are Saints, while 900 Slilor4 the
p1pu'n ION is halt Mormon uui haH
| Gtntilo win the exception % n
smell cluster of houses On 'ue center W
5ufilrl, the people IN tie Layton ward
live on thtif respective farms. Layton
las Cue uYuung mill, extensive ore
chntIE good farming LIANT, cImmoli.
Qua meeting mouse, modern school
house. social hall aud Several Other
listiuguI featured Tho dAtauuc
from tho cenirr OF Layton 90 tue ruu.
Ior oi Thatcher ward De- about tbrye
mlus. John Wclkur, Abraham Pef-
klus aud AustIa Eyaus constitute tue
B.shopric. Layton was hut settled 10y
Lsiter.uay Saints Inc 1858, nud tue
ward organized November ., 1854.
Suvuntyiuryu families, or 80 souls
constitute il1 prossut meuupt.hip.
Genital ward CYmpflays the saints
living 90 a scattered condition on their
farms ustweeu Thatcher AMI Pima;
like lhsiChun 10 embraces Bifip "
country three miles widu extending
from tue ella riyor on thp uortu b tho
Graham mountain on tile SOUTH.
Vhirty.nvU families, or us souls, con.
altute the Mormon population, and
there arB only two other families ~ the
district. Too Central meeting house
is nearly three miles northwest Of
Thatcher Joseph Ciul is Bishop,
win Wm. George Clrm0ns aud Geo.
Cl0mye as cOuasrl0rs. This place was
ilnt settled in 1883, aud organ z'i asa
ward In thU iaii o. the same ycar.
PINS, f0rmofly called Bmithville,
In honor % Pwoi!oat Jesse ". Smith,
istbe OlIUat Mormon settlement ON iho
Gls river. IL wna settled IA 1879 by
an ofgHuiz1d company from the
Eastern Arizoun stake " Zion, joseph
IS. Rogers being the iifsl presiIing
hi or. For several years hc presided
aver all the Saints iu tue valley, aud 10
may BIO HEiu consistently tlat Oh
the other Gottlumonis on tho Ola
river arc 0utgtUwtha OF this first
colony. Pima is i've miles by nearest
rlAd nUrthwgs. Of Thatcher, fourteen
miles northwest OF BUlom0nvillr,
twelve miles southeast OF Thomas,
non.ll0impn town on the ella, about
tity.hvo miles hy road VI twuuty-hvo
miles by ifSil over the Graham noun
tain north pi Fort Grant, aui seventy
nilts tuuth Of Fort Apache. Tue
t0WnhitCui Pima is regularly laid out
iuto blocks thir,y-twO fols square,
separated by gtfeets eight rode wide.
NDarly all the inhabitants liye on tue
tlwnaite. They are oil members Of the
Church except four families. Pima
has tho best anu moot oImmodiuus
meeting house In the 81. Joseph stake
social halls, four stUfos, n roller l1uflng
mill On course Of conslruc,lon) two
saw milla anu a shinglo mill located
about seventeen miles southwest OF the
iDwnl nne brick residences, beautiful
shgie tees, ilne orchards and flower
gardens, 10 was formerly the neat.
quarters OF the stake, anu the quarter.
~ conferences are still hsld here. IL
a. Vel HNHHs aHa
Es II contains 6Bl Lattct-lay Saints
Jiylie1 into lightweight nmlIles'
John Taylor Is Bishop, anu his coun-
sellers are James Foster anu James "A.
Mcbride. Among Pima's most enter.
prislng oilizsns Ia Jonu "A. Nuttall. "A
member oil thr High Council.
Matthews ward ombrAces tho 5aints
tcsluiug iu tract 0i country wing
west Of Pima on the same sido OF the
Gila river. rho settlement Is
scattered Que rs most OF the pesple live
ON their farms or h1mcsleaus ana
along their main irrigatIug often,
luus the place h. o sort of Btfing-towu
uXtendiug Gust ana wUat about two
miles. The center VI the ward, Or the
point whore the meeting house Stands,
D. about ulg-.hird OF a mile if0m tins
fiver anu four miles northwest of
Pima. Thu settlement was Hfst
fuuudod by Joseph Matthew's Tone of
tine Utah pi0neers OF 1870, ana o,hcfs
IN December 1850, AnI Organized INTO
ward April -, lssS. Toe present
BISHOP ig David "A. Matthews. = aon of
me pioneer muniiO od. lis oluusrl0rs
Ero LEM Larsen AMI FrAuus Kirby.
The numerical strength Of the war; h
at present ulnetesn families, or l8l
sOulf.
GurIis, thus namei la honor OF q
family by that name, who were among
10 fist settlers, h fitustei Ou the unrlh
side OF the river, anu neatly opposite
Matthews. Nearly tnres-fOurlhs 0l the
iuhauilnnta live 90 ami near the town
site, which IL about four miles norin.
west 1i Matthews Audtwolyo miles ION
Thatcher. The people irrgA'u fom
two canals which zap lho riysr sryot.l
miles above ths towusllr, Uut splendid