. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . To later serve as the first teacher, hearrived in Safford the summer of 1876, there finding JoshuaE. Bailey and Hiram Kennedy, who had come from GilaBend. Bailey he considers the founder of Safford andbelieves it was he who named the settlement. Both Baileyand Kennedy came with California troops during theCivil War. The former died in Michigan and Kennedywas murdered in Safford in 1877. Others of the earlysettlers were Wm. A. Gillespie, John Glasby, John Conley,A. F. Perigo, Edw. E. Tuttle and E. T. Ijams. In 1876 a
. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . To later serve as the first teacher, hearrived in Safford the summer of 1876, there finding JoshuaE. Bailey and Hiram Kennedy, who had come from GilaBend. Bailey he considers the founder of Safford andbelieves it was he who named the settlement. Both Baileyand Kennedy came with California troops during theCivil War. The former died in Michigan and Kennedywas murdered in Safford in 1877. Others of the earlysettlers were Wm. A. Gillespie, John Glasby, John Conley,A. F. Perigo, Edw. E. Tuttle and E. T. Ijams. In 1876 appeared Isador E. Solomon, who for manyyears occupied a leading position. He came primarily toburn charcoal for the rude adobe furnaces that had beenerected by the Lesynzskys to smelt the free ores of thefamous Longfellow mine in Chase Creek Canyon, a fewmiles above Clifton. For charcoal Solomon found abundantmaterial in an almost unbroken mesquite forest thatstretched for many miles along the river. Solomon pur-chased a road house and small store that had been estab- 242 .. yinq the Mcrmon^ colon1 nfo\/^menf Prom fhr Jah r l/alhy fo the Jon /retro an . fhc GY/a Ka/hy. o //>r fine oPthe Morn ulion moircn thru jc /i EPUBLIC f\yfE^ ICO SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONAThe Salt, San Pedro and Gila Valleys and Routes of travel 243 lished near Pueblo Vie jo by one Munson, and the placesoon became a trading post for a large extent of country,its importance increasing with the development of the greatmining region around Globe. I. E. Solomon still is living,an honored resident of Tucson, his children prominent inthe business affairs of the State. Solomonville was sonamed, in 1878, by none other than Bill Kirkland, whoraised the American flag in Tucson in 1856 and who, for awhile, carried mail from Fort Thomas to Clifton. Apostle Erastus Snow appears to have been the first ofthe Mormon faith to cross this Gila Valley region. His partyarrived on the San Pedro River, October 6, 1878. The mosteaste
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