. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . NewMexico and all Arizona north of the Gila. There can be no doubt that the region embraced,probably too large for a State under modern conditions,at that time was as logical a division as could have beenmade, considering the semi-arid climatic conditions, naturalboundaries, generally by great mountain ranges, a singlewatershed, that of the Colorado River, and, in addition toall these, the highway outlet to the Pacific Ocean, to thesouthwest, through a country where the mountains brokeaway, along the course of the C
. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . NewMexico and all Arizona north of the Gila. There can be no doubt that the region embraced,probably too large for a State under modern conditions,at that time was as logical a division as could have beenmade, considering the semi-arid climatic conditions, naturalboundaries, generally by great mountain ranges, a singlewatershed, that of the Colorado River, and, in addition toall these, the highway outlet to the Pacific Ocean, to thesouthwest, through a country where the mountains brokeaway, along the course of the Colorado, even then demon-strated the most feasible route from Great Salt Lake Cityto the of the Western Territories At no time was there more than assumption by thiscentral Salt Lake government of authority over any partof the area of the State of Deseret, save within the centralUtah district, where the settlers, less than two years estab-lished, were striving to carve out homes in what was to bethe nucleus of this commonwealth of wondrous proportions. 50. 51 There was nothing very unusual about the was along the ordinary Hne of such documents, thoughthe justices of the Supreme Court at first were chosen bythe Legislature, Brigham Young was the first Governor,Willard Richards was Secretary and Heber C. KimballChief Justice. The first Legislature met July 2, 1849, at Great SaltLake City and supported an application to Congress forthe organization of a territorial government. The bound-aries of the Territory of Deseret were somewhat changedfrom the original. The northern line was to be the southernline of Oregon and to the east there was to be inclusion ofmost of the present State of Colorado. Another memorial,soon thereafter, asked admission as a full State and stillanother plan, later proposed, was that Deseret and Cali-fornia be admitted as a single State, with power to separatethereafter. This suggestion was not well received in Cali-fornia a
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