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Mormon Island (Colorado River) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mormon Island (Colorado River) Mormon Island, an island in the Colorado River near Hardyville, in Mohave County, Arizona in 1879, since removed by the action of the river.〔(Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978 )〕 ==History== Mormon Island was used to assemble and launch the Southwestern Mining Company's schooner ''Sou'Wester'', in 1879. Because the steamers could not reach the Virgin River during the low water months, and barges had been sailed up the river from Hardyville from the 1860s in the low water season, the mining company, had the ''Sou'Wester'' built in San Francisco, knocked down and shipped by rail to Yuma, Arizona, then shipped up river on the steamboat ''Gila'' to Hardyville where carpenters were waiting to reassemble it.〔〔( October 18, 1879, The Arizona Sentinel; Yuma, Arizona, Page 2, col. 1 )〕 The schooner was subsequently used to sail salt from the mines in the Virgin River valley down river from Rioville through the Boulder and Black Canyons to be used in the Southwestern Mining Company's silver ore reduction furnaces at Eldorado Canyon. It occasionally sailed down river as far as Hardyville to pick up freight.〔January 14, 1882, The Arizona Sentinel; Yuma, Arizona, p.3 col.3〕 It was wrecked in the Short and Dirty Rapids in the upper river in 1882.〔U.S. Congress, House, House Document 67 "Preliminary Examination of the Colorado River, Nevada" 56th Cong., 2d sess., Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1900.〕
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