Show I SETTLING ANOTHER COLONY Mormons Take Up Land for Settlement ill in Bluewater tel V Valley V Santa Fe New ew MexIcan Ie Saturday last a tall taB mari straight as a pine with a strong trong fa 1 spare frame h hale le and hearth heart ca called ed at at time office or of the thc bureau of immigration for fot information CO g the territory and amid especially especial regarding ValencIa county count lIe He was furnished books pamphlets and other printed Information at the dis disposal of the bu be bureau bereau reau and told his story His name is Colin Cohn R It Hakes flakes He his son and three frIends whose names are arc Louls E 11 ELamb Lamb Lottie M Lamb and John Alt All Allred red came to Santa SantaFe l e to make home homestead homestead stead entries at the United States land office on public land in the va valley 11 eo of the tw twelve mileR malies west of Grant station tion on the Santa Fe Pacific railroad Th The filed three homesteads and one desert land entry at the local loea land office They have o just arrived in that flint from flom Tempo Aria Ariz where ere they have hae been b ln living for fOl twenty and re the they sold their land rOt for good prices The They preferred a cooler coole and probably also more Mr lr Hakes asked stated frank frankly I ly h that he und and his people ar are Mormons ormon that the they came caine to the sec section section tion to become permanent J residents that they thew would engage in farming end and stock raising and that within a year lie he hoped to settle families of about people In the Bluewater valley The They have found some good reservoir sites siles which wU he be utilized and ha have also demonstrated that there Is in plentY of underflow water In the valley which could be cheaply and pumped h by naphtha and gasoline engines and used for the of irrigatIon There Is plenty of wood for fires and Umbel timber for building purposes i V In the vicinity of thene the new colony colon and within about twelve miles there Is a large bUKe amount of saw timber for fot bridge Pur Purposes purposes poses and construction The rhe soil soU is very ery fertile and he is well pleased with tIme prospects There are arc about twenty persons all told In the s settlement with bun now and a half dozen families are en route rout overland front from Mesa lesa Arz to It Mr Ir Hakes who Is an experienced farmer r thought lila his people would pot onlY make a good living but more amass competencies in farming armin and fruit mis log ing and stock growing They are bard working sober and mind their OWl business Mr Hakes has quite a stor story lI Ho was born In 1837 1831 in the state of Ohio and with his parents in 1848 wa a 0 mom mem ber of the original Mormon ormon cOlony that settled Salt Lake Cit City Ho He remembers that on the tho entire route from Omaha to Salt Lake a di distance or of lOiI miles there was not It a tree on the prairie In Iii his parents went to Los An Ami ss which was timen a little bit of a can cun town only one brick building His people then returned to Utah where sIr Mr s resided until engaging in f and other othel occupations and in th ratta year be moved to ArIzona near Ire He ha ban J f a 1 of the eke 1 legia l council and a of th the board of ot of Maricopa cone conn conety t ty fn end served several terms en justice of til He l i ft a man of parts and bids fair to be influential with his people for many years fars to come ire Ha lies has no doubt hilt but What hat th the colony lie has bas ju just t ate V nod will be a In every directIon V |