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Raft River Stake of Zion
RAFT RIVER STAKE OF ZION consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in the south part of Cassia County, Idaho, and a small part of Box Elder County, Utah. It includes the following wards: Albion, Almo, Elba, Malta, Moulton, Sublett and Yost. The headquarters of the stake are at Malta.
At a special conference held at Almo April 27, 1915, the Cassia Stake Was divided and that part lying east of the Goose Creek Mountains was organized as the Raft River Stake. At the time of its organization the stake consisted of the following wards: Albion, Elba, Malta, Almo, Naf, Yost and Grouse Creek. Naf Ward was discontinued in 1919 and Grouse Creek Ward was transferred to the North Weber Stake in 1928. Sublett Ward was organized from a part of Malta Ward and Moulton Ward from part of Almo Ward in 1916.
At the organization of the Raft River Stake John A. Elison was chosen as president with Joseph Harper as first and Henry Belnap as second counselor. Pres. Elison, together with Joseph Harper, his first counselor, presided Dec. 31, 1930, on which date the stake had a membership of 1,344, including 362 children. Second Counselor Henry Belnap was succeeded in 1921 by Joseph S. Barlow, who died Sept. 9, 1925, and was succeeded by Isaac James Neddo, jun., who acted as second counselor in 1930. George R. Richens was the first stake clerk. He was succeeded by John T. Horne in 1926, who acted at the close of 1930.
Rains Branch
RAINS BRANCH, Carbon Stake, Carbon County, Utah, consisted of Latter-day Saints residing in two coal mining camps known respectively as Rains and Mutual, situated in two narrow canyons forming the head of Spring Canyon, about four miles west of Storrs, and about nine miles northwest of Helper on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Rains is the terminus of a coal camp railway.
A number of families who had located in the mining camps of Rains and Mutual, where the brethren had sought and found employment, were organized into an independent branch of the Church May 22, 1921, with [p.690] Francis E. Anderson as presiding Elder. He was succeeded in 1925 by Alma L. Fullmer, who in 1927 was succeeded by Ellis W. Mower, who presided until 1929. With the beginning of 1930 the Rains Branch suspended operations, as the presiding Elder and nearly all the active members of the Church moved away, owing to the closing down of some of the mines.
Ramah Ward
RAMAH WARD, St. Johns Stake, Valencia Co., New Mexico, consists of Latter-day Saints residing in the extreme northeast end of a valley which is about five miles long with an average width of a mile. The mountains bordering the valley are covered with cedar and pines. The so-called Zuni Mountains (which are much higher than the mountains near the valley) tower skyward and are about six miles north of Ramah. Ramah, which has an altitude of 7,000 feet, and was formerly known as Savoya and Navajo, respectively, is about ten miles southwest of the Continental Divide, 32 miles east of the boundary line between Arizona and New Mexico, 22 1/2 miles northeast of the Zuni Village, 80 miles by nearest road northeast of St. Johns, the headquarters of the St. Johns Stake of Zion in Arizona, and 30 miles northeast of Gallup, the nearest railway station on the Santa Fe Railroad. The ward has a fine cut-stone chapel with an auditorium having a seating capacity of about 300; also six class rooms.