. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . Arizona toNevada, today are noted only the settlements of Bunker-ville, Moapa, Logan, St. Joseph, Mesquite, Overton andSt. Thomas. There is a ferry at Rioville, at the mouth ofthe Virgin, and another is at Grand Wash. The name ofLas Vegas is borne by a railroad station on the Salt Lakeand Los Angeles line, a few miles from the Springs. Thereare the mining camps of Pahrump, Manse, Keystone,El Dorado and Newberry. The westernmost part of thetriangle, at an elevation of about 3000 feet, is occupiedby the great Amargosa
. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . Arizona toNevada, today are noted only the settlements of Bunker-ville, Moapa, Logan, St. Joseph, Mesquite, Overton andSt. Thomas. There is a ferry at Rioville, at the mouth ofthe Virgin, and another is at Grand Wash. The name ofLas Vegas is borne by a railroad station on the Salt Lakeand Los Angeles line, a few miles from the Springs. Thereare the mining camps of Pahrump, Manse, Keystone,El Dorado and Newberry. The westernmost part of thetriangle, at an elevation of about 3000 feet, is occupiedby the great Amargosa desert, which descends abruptlyon the California side into the sink of Death Valley tobelow sea level. There has been no development of largevalue in this strip. Its interest to Arizona is merely his-torical. Today, few Arizonans know that Pah-ute County onceexisted as an Arizona subdivision, or that Nevada took apart of Arizona, or that later, Nevada was given fullsixty miles expansion eastward of her boundary line, atthe expense of both Arizona and Utah. The natural 102. 40 ///• 39_lie- FormerUtah line js Prcsfni-h line 37 • 103 boundary line in that section between Nevada and Arizonawould have been the Virgin River. The information contained in this chapter has beengathered from diverse sources, but largely from the recordsof the Church Historian at Salt Lake, wherein, practically,is the only history of the Mormon settlements of the south-western section of what was and is known as UtahsDixie. The southern Nevada point had some value in amineral way. As early as 1857, Mormons worked thePotosi silver mines, eighteen miles southwest of Las data is at hand concerning their value. In Bancroftis found this sober chronicle: Believing the mines to belead, Brigham Young sent miners to work them, in antici-pation of war with the United States, but the productwas found too hard for bullets and the mines were aban-doned. The Congressional Act of May, 1866, giving Neva
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