Show PROGRESS i whether it be in the progressive united states or the more slothful mexico the mormon are ad mired for their thrift and frugality this is what tho mexican financier has to eay about the mormon colonies very few are abaro of the wonderful progress made by the cormons mormons who haac during the past few years settled in the northern parts of mexico principally in the states of sanora and chihuahua hundreds of industrious mor mons have taken up their residence in the valley of the boca grandin the latter the results thus far attained bear witness to their untiring energy and to the marvelous fertility of the soil the toa valley throughout ita length is nearly level merely enough to effect its perfect sloping drainage tho who levalley i one alluvial deposit the rich dark vast to fertile and with an of even lesa energy than Salt Lake tab into become ley of the will quickly SS cormons mormons amedur tributes tri buted throughout the valley that of diaz established in 1883 ia situated oh the second bench or bottom at some aia tance from the river the soil is wonderfully der fully rich resembling embling reE that ot the states of illinois aud iowa hero the cormons mormons have froug hr wonders on all sides are evidences of their great thrift and energy here are seen neat and comfortably adobe houses wim mills for blaising water both for consumption and i tiia tion well tilled barns and corn cab hilo thriving vineyards and orchard 19 choicest fruit trees are on every iud it the hack ground are well cultivated fields stretching lar out over te landscape in moat graceful contrat t to abo mesquite and chaparral which dait a short time since covered the mesa in place of the barren treeless plains we now see thousand of acres under cultivation hundreds of comfort able homes and a lew school louses history is in fact repeating itsell and the cormons mormons are at diaz what they accomplished at bait lakey transforming the wilderness into a veritable garden diaz dea not however rely entirely on its wells for irrigation the waters of a large spring in ans neighboring mountain s baini conducted in a big ditch several miles in length to their lands so that they are now possessed of a water supply sufficient for loth present and future colonies |