Mormon Settlement in Arizonaa Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert

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Mormon Settlement in Arizonaa Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
James H Mcclintock
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These were the conditions under which it was proposed to makeof the Colorado the great trade artery of the inter-mountain region.
The Colorado now absolutely has lost all possibilities for commerce. Pioneer conditions are about the same as far southward as the Laguna dam. This structure, built to divert water for the Yuma and Imperial valleys, absolutely bars the river channel for navigation. Above it and below itnow are only ferries and a few power boats. The great Imperial canalsystem, at a p
...oint below Yuma, for much of the year drains the riverflow. Where good-sized steamers once plied from tidewater, at the head ofthe Gulf of California, now, for months at a time, is only a dry sandwash. To this extent the advance of civilization has obliterated a riverthat ranks, in geography at least, among the greatest streams of theUnited States.
Establishing a River Port Callville, established on the Colorado by Anson Call in December, 1864, for a while was the southernmost outpost of Mormon settlement.


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