Identifier: mormonsettlement00byumccl (find matches)
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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ops,offices, schoolhouse, etc., and manufactories of lumberand woolen products.Not a General Church Movement There had been an idea among the adherents to theOrder that they were fulfilling a Church commandment.They were disabused by Apostle Erastus Snow, whosuggested that each occupation be taken up by smallcompanies, each to run a different department. There wasconference with the First Presidency, but the Churchdeclined responsibility sought to be thrown upon it. Sothere were many defections, though for years thereafterthere was incorporation, to hold the mills and machinery,lands and livestock. The United Order by no means was general. It waslimited to certain localities and certain settlements, each ofwhich tried to work out its own problems in its own way,entirely without connection with any other community ofthe sort. In a few instances the plan proved successful, butusually only where there was some directing leader ofintegrity and business acumen, such as at Brigham City. 132
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FOUNDERS OF THE COLORADO FERR1E8 1—John L. Blythe3—Daniel Bonelli 2—Harrison Pearce4—Anson Call

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