. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . ORIGINAL FORT MORONI WITH ITS STOCKADE. FORT -MORONI IN LATER YEARS deposit now is being mined for shipment to paper mills ofits sodium sulphate. Reference elsewhere is made to thesalt mines of the Virgin River Valley. The Mission Post of Moen Copie One of the most interesting early locations of the Mor-mon Church in Arizona was that of Moen Copie, about 75 ^miles southeast of Lees Ferry. The name is a Hopi one,signifying running water or many springs. The soilis alkaline, but it is a place where Indians had raised
. Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert . ORIGINAL FORT MORONI WITH ITS STOCKADE. FORT -MORONI IN LATER YEARS deposit now is being mined for shipment to paper mills ofits sodium sulphate. Reference elsewhere is made to thesalt mines of the Virgin River Valley. The Mission Post of Moen Copie One of the most interesting early locations of the Mor-mon Church in Arizona was that of Moen Copie, about 75 ^miles southeast of Lees Ferry. The name is a Hopi one,signifying running water or many springs. The soilis alkaline, but it is a place where Indians had raised cropsfor generations. The presiding spirit of the locality wasTuba, the Oraibi chief, who had been taken by JacobHamblin to Utah, there to learn something of the whitemans civilization. Joseph Fish wrote that at an early date Moen Copie wasselected as a missionary post by Jacob Hamblin and AndrewS. Gibbons and that in 1871 and 1872, John L. Blj^he andfamily were at that point. Permanent settlement on Moen Copie Creek was madeDecember 4, 1875, by a party headed by Jas. S. was establishment of winter qu
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