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Show THE COIO.MLS AMI UMLItOtHS H MLMIO. rilK Chicago paper are publtshlug reports of lulcrtlews with Don I, u I Iluller.of Ihe City of Mexico, In regard to tho protioscd isircbaso lycituln "Mormons" of a large tract of land In Mexico. Ilo slate that It Is situated In tho Htato of Chihuahua and consltU of H,S(W,0Ol acres. Ho said the artlre lnleristed, one of whom was John W. Young, had an option on tho land for nlntty ilajBOml lie, Benor Iluller, wa tn git a Iwunty of 50 per head from th Mexican OjierniTient for every ounii flilt settler on these landawhola ovsr (wolvu)eara of as, lio mentioned this as evidence that tbo Mexican tlovernmentwaa not avers to "Mor mon"rllleri, who wero expected to tie the principal occupanU of this tract. lleau.d,a reported In the Chicago Tiiiunt: There are alren ly three Mormon col onto adjacent to tho land I desire to sill to Ihcin, and the MOO people In tho three places have transformed what was a dos-trt dos-trt Into a Jierfect par Use. Instead of sand hills yuu euu flu 1 st present In the colonies of Ascensions an 1 Dial Ihouaanda ot fruit trues, besutlful parks, an 1 water which la tirujght lo the cnda In Hi ) arils lu front of th insgnlrtccnt homes by means of a canal nine mile long. All these Improvement were male by tb Mormon ttirm.elves. Not on of the colonist hss more tbsn nno wife, liecauso the laws of Mexico agaUial Imlygamy ar evrn more strict th in Uioie of the Untied htslcs." HespoVoof a railroad which II was exs-eted would be liullt under the direction of John W. Youug from southern Utah through Clifton, Arl-xona, Arl-xona, to thu Mormou colonies lu Chl-liushua, Chl-liushua, an I said Mr. Young was al-realyengigcil al-realyengigcil In building 1U4 mlle-s of railroad in Mexico. Tho Chicago Wot mentions this also and were the Henor remarked furlhin "Iho Mormons are Jn.t tha kind of people we mvt.1 d m 11 there, ereq if Ihe Mexican peoplo ro Jenlnusnf theui. Wo haiolrffkl other colonists with dlro results. re-sults. I or loMe'.ce,tlio gottmuient of-fernl of-fernl large Induct inenti to lullan linrnl gratlon, an I It cost llient to million dollars dol-lars to do ate ay tilth tho rmulu, though et en bslty tho streets of Mexico Clly are rilled will, Italian Isvtsr. The Mormon colonies aro but one phse In Mexico's general edtsn 0 of prosperity. The country unquestionably ranks next tn tho United S.utc as Hi rt iml'llo of the new world. IVo hav, n wisorilsrlu Diss, and, tlialnw now lowing it, bewlll U his ownsiuo,.., Mlhus, fmrycar Is too short ajiresl. lUntlsl term, fir whst ouo preslduut bull Is up auolicr destrots. Dlux his largely given nur republic Us stable clmr-arier, clmr-arier, an 1 that It Is suite Is shown hy Oermsny's loan to us of v,ooO,qou, to whlcli thev lot 5 cor nldol JM.OOo.ftti, liven lllelu ling this loan, nor lnlsbt. nt ss I smailer than that of any other na Hun on earth." |
