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Show Mormon settlement. He also visited the Yaqui Indians and presented them with copies of the Book of Mormon. Returning to Mesa, Charles labored in the Indian Mission until the Fall of 1885, when the family moved to Corelitea, Chihuahua, Mexico. Following two years in the Mexican settlement he returned to Mesa where he died, 26 September 1889. Thus passed to his reward one of God's true noblemen. —Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Clark OGDEN WAS A BARGAIN The site of Ogden was originally purchased with military funds. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought what was then known as Fort Buenaven¬tura on the Weber River, Miles Goodyear was the seller and the transaction took place, 6 January 1848. The site was purchased with money earned by members of the Mormon Battalion, and the purchase price was $3,000 with $1950 cash to seal the bargain. Total cost of the tract came to $4 per acre. Miles Goodyear had established the Fort several years earlier. He felt that with the arrival of thousands of Mormons, most of them located 35 miles to the south, were too close for comfort. He sold out and moved to parts unknown. HALLEY'S COMET Almost everyone knows that Edmund Halley was the first person to calculate the orbit of a comet and predict its future. Every 76.1 years we have reason to believe him, as Halley's Comet streaks across the sky, right on schedule. The next time it appears will be in the Spring of 1986. The appearance of Halley's Comet in 1456 was surely seen by Christopher Colum¬bus and Leonardo da Vinci, the great painter and sculptor, whose teacher described the comet in these words: "Its head was round and as large as the eye of an ox. From it issued a tail, fan shaped, like that of the peacock. Its tail was prodigious, for it trailed through a third of the firmament. 107 |