Show doings in spanish fork city LETTER FROM MEXICO A good opportunity to secure land cheap it is 50 gents per acre ENQUIRES correspondence every body is smiling even the numerous dolls in all the stora dressed in holliday attire cast captivating bewitching glances as if trying to secure a fellow to ekcert anem to the coining primary dance soon to tale place at nielson Niel sun and creer s elegant dancing hall under alie direction of president jane argyle and her worthy co laborers at a meeting of tho comans womans suffrage ane other day in true democratic style mrs jane finch was elected president mra agnes lewis has filled the position with credit to date it pays one to visit their meetings and hear them discuss weighty matters with genuine feminine flippancy from the towering belfry of the excelsior school bouye exactly at nine every night the commanding toll of the iron bell will be interpreted by the rambling kids as saying soft bed or iron bed there will be a scrambling for home for a while at leaea city dads receive our compliments A theatre boom has struck the toun our local troop has appeared once this season in the play 0 the flowing bowl it was not a success for want of better preparation although many of the characters were well sustained johnsone dramatic troupe presented wednesday night last the telling plays of out of his sphere and the tempter mr aaron johnson in the characters of frederick blood and robert morton acted so natural so real and so earnest that for the time being we forgot that we were beneath the lofty dome of the occidental opera house nor were his assistant players of only a fair medium order of talent each evinced a gli knowledge of the impression sought to be made on the audience it was made all were satisfied with the play and players the district school will shortly place on the boards in the camp together with some choice dialogues recitations and songs the proceeds are to be devoted to a teachers library aho able services of prof matson of springville Spring ville and jhb services of our local comedian mr thos creer have been secured for the occasion by the gayour city fathers claim kindred with their little ones two years only our present progenitors timo of fraternity eads february next when they bruthers or part of both will succeed them at the next election thanks to enlightenment and progress that un just relic of russian autocracy that un lair and despotic combination of the legislative judicial and executive power vested in oue person will no moie exist here As a matter of fact the people have wisely selected fair minded meu for aldermen alu ermen otherwise our uricial cial benches tribune power would have been harassing we are to have two justices of the peace elected at large who will be sep erate and independent of the city council making power A change has been wrought in the presidency of the Y M M IA I A here abro jno Sf tenson who for the past year took considerable interest in the work has been succeeded by elder david T lewis systematic ampro pante and enthusiastic woric is predicted for this organization the year probably the old reading room will be redeemed and increased and a chance given the young people to feast themselves on re binert and cultured literature no one in the whole feels prouder than our fellow townsman mr ted wood groomsman for wm bowen who has had the charge of bowena famous stallions for the past year presented ted davoust and bean champs as he adoue could of course he has his diploma henceforth his medal will adorn his breast as the cham groomsman for the sake of blind horses and other mighty perambulatory perambulators the attention of the proper officers is directed to the de fenceless cellars abounding on main street these walled are neither attractive or cyclone proof and are of small value aa ornaments As burial grounds they would prove offensive and malodorous mal odorous as military misi tary trenches unnecessary but as inviting places for breaking skulls and limbs admirable let them be filled up or built up man is mortal and all his work necessarily imperfect he is born to grief and disappointment such were the despondent mut of the subcontracting masons of the new district school house as they peremptorily left this vale of tears for parts unknown the other day had it not been they were salvationists they would doubtless doubt les have said in addition D n the architect poor fellow their woran is condemned the v alls must be torn down more competent masons secured and the work done according to plan faultlessly As a model of neatness cleanliness and orderly presentation of goods mr sarley takes the cake for stupendousness convenience and business bustle the coop co op store for the grandest variety oF holiday goods wm it jonea steese and mrs brown a itin on mercantile compary com paty and young mens coop co op for a clean beave hughes for a delicious meal buyack hotel for choice meats etc banks or mcdonaad McDo for ahto vea hardware etc lara law sate lodgings hotel de la aryle for orderly dancing halls future for waon and machine knops Rob eitson and brookbank tor econom ical finan ciering and solid progress dahle for quick sales and small profits james row hill alark lewis boy eick for amusement home or street with an occasional tour to the picturesque opera the enlarged daily ENQUIRES and the newsy deml weekly are gaining in pop blanty ul anty and it is therefore no wonder hat the son of thoele tooele the genial skelton neet with such success here while doing business for the ENQUIRER send him acain the remarkable prepress pre press made this season in burldine buil dine is a token of a business push and home taste of our citizens and the near future promises more it promises the erection of brick hoa lieu wooden stores water works in case of i fires and for culinary purposes A central school house for the better advancement van cement of the children eafe cross lings water ditches a regular police banking railroad less doffs orders and peace breakers and more honest courtships court ships durable weddings and newborn new born babies that dont liel J A R FORK dec i t tat time prom old co CASAS dec 13 1890 the public mind is just no somewhat interested te in the proceedings going on 10 the eastward of the river on the beau plain which extends some six or beven miles and terminates in lolling hills covered by the beat of pasture grass while on its southern end is a large quantity of oak and other hard woods good for fuel while a tract to the westward furnishes a fine lot of saw timber this extensive tract has been owned until recently recen tty by mr louis huller who has a colonization contract with the mexican government and A F me donald and george M brown have entered into a contract with the said to purchase and colonize this tract they have completed the sur vey of a city and it is now being settled A canal is surveyed from the casas grandell Gran river to an extensive reservoir situated at the tool hills and capable of covering ihu entire town and farm lauds amounting to about buoo acres the right ot water from the river is a high i ater right which lasts plentifully lor a large part af the season when it is necessary and the reservoir will help aut the matter materially low water rights can be purchased reasonably of the mexicans and some of the settlers are raiding water and cheaper by wind mills from about courteen lour teen teet deep the supply at that depth being all that could be desired so the water supply can be faily called bood the canal passes over level plain the way and can be cheaply constructed ted the price of town lots is from to farm lands irom 50 to 75 cents per acre and pasture lands 40 cen a an acre these pieces are without water but all have the privilege ut burkin kin on the ednd for water rights the reservoir needs but liitle labor to perfect it the probability is that it mas faed anciently and the district of land under it cultivated the above prices are in mexican money at present rates of exchange will make pasture claudd about enree acres for american money and the in proportion parties deb irine parts of these banua at the above prices should send to either of the above parties a description or rather a statement of the lands desired and 50 per cent of the amount in new york 10 the order of and addressed to eitnier of the said par tita at deming new mexico before alie 20 of january 1891 abe amount will be turned into mexican money at alie cur rent rates of exchange and the amount applied on the purchase upon payment of balance within GO days thereat ter with interest from first payment at the rate of 10 per cent per annama deed will be given each party bearing half the expense ot deed except on city lots on which the purchaser pur chaber pays all the expense of deded f all that is for sale of alie said tract will likely bo taken before that time so that parties land at first prices should act promptly all business will bd faithfully and honestly done A company is being organized to take the matter off the said palies soon after the above mantion cd dates and will conduct the future business as to all lands of each head of a family who settles in the colony gets 20 acres of land free A good many people are coming in to settle and matters are looking up this is and opportunity the equal of which will not likely again be faund tite perfect GIO M |