Some Mormon families passed through…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

h E. M. Young for $1,000. The damage to the Mountain Key store has not yet been esti- mated. The loss which was total, will fall heavily upon several who were not insured. No correct estimate of the total loss can be ascer- tained as yet, but it will approximate $100,000. Some Mormon families passed through town yesterday on their way to the Colonies in Mexico. Their wagons, as it not common with these people, contained bundles of trees and shrubbery for their new homes. They are thus making in Mexico, as they did in the Salt Lake Valley, a garden of a desert. Tree plant- ing is a part of their religion. From the December 18, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise Las Vegas Optic.