Show tolfe of boito SOME ABLE colonizers COLONI ZEES mexicans are highly pleased with the progress attending mormon settlement correspondence in your issue of the instant a writer himself M moreno DB a letier from colonia dublan mexico in which a number of personalities are indulged myself to which I 1 ought perhaps to reply in kind thie under date of july made in your colema gome mi leading statements concerning abs tbs rail Ts r find colonization enterprise f hon john W young in country ad at the close of nis article went ou of hia way to make a personal sling at magali in lubbering luB hia first letter I 1 took oc cadion to correct nil rather by giving th facts in the case fully than by deserting res erting to ina methods and ignored his la eulion and though he is quite abusive in his bat letter and laya himself dpn to an ai sault I 1 prefer to hold to my former position without answering his latest therefore chich really itself I 1 append you here a translation of an artile arti le describing the colonies in mexico published over the name 01 the feitor in a late number of a of faeo del norta under aba colonica Co loniea of the ot branoa proceeds eda in ahe republic given aa good results aa in the district of braves in proof of trix assertion it only needs to ba said that it is a rare thing for colonies to be found in ae good condition aa these although they have been established but six asars this is without doubt due in the farat place to the lust and benan siut disposition ot the of ane state stull as of the district who have all the means at ienir disposal incel kintly for th and ahe second factor has powerfully power lully aided to the development of iab colonies is industry and honesty ot ane colonists vB without any it may be eaid that among thousand noulia that form the colonies of diaz carlos pacheco and dubbin there is not a drinkard gambler or vagabond the efforts of all are concentrated cent rated for their mutual benefit to thase colonica co loniea may be justly applied the celebrated phrase tha woman the least is abe most virtuous virtu ou in years we colonization who with their adverta emata have filled whole columns of periodicals in both hemie pher forming thousands of projects and making promises that they never could fulfill they invested large bams of money in tha of immense hotels and pleasure gardens had a retinue of the like but in a few years the funds of the er were they fond then delves obliged to remain in a complete state of inaction an entirely different policy has been followed by the colonia of the district of branoa they hive worked like the ants silently and constantly st they have not pretended to make from uncultivated land campos Elise oi in a year nor from an uninhabited place ta make spring up that will rival the great american cen tres tasir have been to labor to cultivating a rich i noil which to abundantly bede nothing more than the hand of man guiding ati plow aba colonists coloni its referred to have gathered themselves together under the liberal of are speculators peculators tors iu dib Buise but people accustomed to the flold labora and among ilem are some who aie masters oi their professions they arriva in the republic uth one wagon or two aa aba case may be each with its teams and animals and with their tools and of agriculture ri and inda atry which conati tute the only capital that many ef them seBe but they bring with them of more value than gold or bank notes and that is the love of labor practice crac tice in the cultivation of tb foil and a practical knowledge of ture in the anitad whence moat of them have come they have bean obliged to contend with boil and with abo biora of raw cold winters and they have overcome theae obstacles conr beautiful country ia praised on every hand and abounds everywhere with fertile fielda under a benign aay where the scorching heats of summer and the glacial colda of winter are unknown on the anival an ival of the colonist the superintendent to each the land needed and immediately work is begun and the land cleared off labor continuing while tha eed ia being de posited in ground ork tb husband the wife th eldar children and even the little fellows who drop the aeed into the ground the time not required in the car of their own homes is utilized in la borine on tho farms of their and in way sufficient is bained to live upon until they can eather their own crops at first they live in a rude hut but this is replaced in a few years by a commodious house surrounded by illera and fruit trees and amply furnished wherein feigus the moet complete tranquility and wherein they enjoy the fruits of their own labors they do not squander what they have earned by the sweat of their brow they practice true economy providing only the and they ua their means to the productiveness of their land and to purchase moro always being carceal not to co beyond their meang the oldest of the colonies is dial con nearly a thousand souls clean egrets lined on either lido with shade trees the greater dart of the housea are made of acobes adobes and are commodious and it is a very rare thing to aoe OB without ana den lor however poor the may be his lirot care is to plant bruit trees diac has several in dustral establish menla a church school and drus chore but dear they havo neither a sa loona billiard hall nor any place whatever wha taver where mescal ia sold consequently they have no need for a jail nor have they one in any of the colonies coloni ei abra aro seldom any complaints or quarrels and eean dala ara entirely unknown in the colonies the head of th colony diaz ia dr V derby johnson jr a gentleman in every denae of work he is aio agent and beneral manager af clr north american pacific hairway Hai iway ai enterprise of which we hall anie n our next bistue the j of nil of the colonies B mr A F cDonald ya person advanced i i years u ni li 0 strict integrity ad a d great aim a verv energetic aud anaa the colonies are mal up f amer cana germane enan li ami D all honorable heno rable laborio la Dorio vi hii I 1 fact is proven by their leally come with the firm inesti 11 makina mexico their adap ed loi p not expecting to abaslon ab anlon it at a t aoi u they have made a stake the colonies of our district sh v T axi to enjoy peace and plenty ini ier needed but a love of labor and con tancy in ing the soil which will amply reward tha laborer for hit inget L A LAS P L li x mexico via Dicu iyo N M 23 1891 |