Show lliriOUGIl OLD IJ AlUI 1 A Visit To T e Mormon Colonis ud Ybit Was Pond Tim Vein tMleecm In she Iaso 1Id 1Hnue rstaers Ylas aoavelbed Is a Itesaemqce We J tutlor Votnl Aewn COLOMIA DIM Stale of Chihuahua Mexico March aS 194 I Un Thursday March find after Me leg Apostles Young Smith and Tea dale and Elder Robert IS Walton leave Dentin New Mexico by train for Salt Like City sorted t lor the Mormon olonlet In Mexico traveling from I > em leg In a lumber wagon with Elder Charles Matthew of Colon Dlat al I eaimter After advancing ten mile in a wuthent direction we encamped for be night on a metqull Hal The next day March jnl we con United our Journey and after traveling tweDtyh mile following the grade of the future Mormon railroad most of he way and peatlag the Florila mountain moun-tain I on the left I end what II I known at he Three Simmers the three mountain peak on the right we arrived at the prospective town of Columbia which hi iiualed on the boundary line between I tile United Stateaand the Republic of = flh locarlty texlco This particular locality wot boomed a few yean ago when the t protpecti were promising of pinning the new railway Into Mexico at once but owing to the repealed delay In building said road the town hat been almott leaerted and there are only two or three edt I living I there at present nvnedlately south of the lowntlle to the unihry tine between the two Repots ui In the I winter of 19194 through 101 a 1 ooperuilon on the part of Both government gov-ernment large Iron pars were placed me mile apirl along the line Each ol liee pilUrt or peels U a foot iquare and seven trot high weigh coo pound is I palnu white to that it can be teen a ung distance off and roll In a square rock tockel burled lo the ground On A h north hula ol each of hew I plllara It I the folio hucrlptlon In large raised rtten lloundary of the United States Irriiyod I 1531 i Reeatabllthed I by tree mol isSiiitM On the south aide 1 1 we rod llmile I de la Kenuhllca Mex cino rratado de I iSy KeMahbecidu > or Traiulin do iSdjKW I inn mile south ol the boundary line ua situated the llltle Mexican town of ilomaa I where a custom house until quite recently wai situated where lure U I now onlv a guard italloned to uatch the boundary line and I prevent goals from being smuggled lain the couniiy All dutiable foodi hlch fornieily passed in from Domini have now to Le thipped In by way of 13 h 1 Paso ill Iesn l s filch hs I quite a detriment to our Mexican colonies and wtltlona have recently been prenenled to tho Mexican government praying for Ihe neitabUih nent of the custom house al Ialnmo The main gist of cloning the cuilom loute wai a recent robbery committed at Pilonut by the Temocbict the modern rebels of Mexico who alto killed a number of ibe line guard a abort time ago alll I laving patted a aallifactory examination examin-ation and no dutiable good being found in our wagon we were permitted 10 travel on and alter going three brides beyond Palomat I which U 40 mile MKilh ol Deming we encamped for Ibe nljcht t about a mile well of the touth end oflaloma lake a line sheet of water led hv spring which rile and form a htautliul ttreani at the point where the cuttom house town Hand onlinulng our journey on the 1411 ae reached the Caaai Grande mer here ale known at Use Iloca Grande which meant big mouth thus nameu aftur a wide opening in a chain ol mountain through which the river pnucti We found no running water In the river lied thli being the dry part of the year but during the rainy par ol the season it sometimes overflow i la bank and covers Ibe flat country through which it flowt for mile on both tide of the channel Thia river ri IR tIn t-In the mountain about no mile inland take a irrpenuue court through the large valleys l of not them Chihuahua with only a very little fall and dit aiipear in lake llluiled aoutheaal of alums 1 In I time of very i lileh water Iliete lakes are aid lo overflow their bankt and tome ol the Cases Grande walun then escape Into Rio Grande del Nolle All the Mormon telllemenU In Chihuahua Mexico are tltuated on the g = COM Grande and lu Iribularie I Il runt through luccetilon I of very ex tciulve I vaneyt which are very fertile and productive but the river water I Inadequate lo water more than a mull poitlon of the land The bcitltiet lot raiting cattle hciu are matt excellent I I never uw a finer gracing country in all lrllv eiaI my travel nor did I ever see Utter cattle than Ihote I have beheld gracing In the great valleys of Ihe Catti Grande since 1 came Into Mexico Were It not for Ihe heavy dullea pro sallied on horned Hock by our U S Icgliltlora I I these cattle rdo be exported ex-ported with great profit to their owner into the United Stale The Mexican dont like the McKinley bill one bit Having cruised a 11511 l of one ol the lower vallejn ol the onc Caw Grande somewhat diagonally and dotted a low mountain chain we encamped for the oncmr1 slight lu a gia > y little valley M mile east ol Coloma Uuu On Sunday morning the ajth vte traveled trav-eled 7 mile and trotted the dry bed of l J second the Caw Graudn a tccond time thence patted on 6 mild further to Colonla Dial the molt northern Mormon Mor-mon letUement in Mexico where I spent the remainder of the Sabbath day speaking to the Saints twice Colonla Diai Ihu named la hono ol Iuilirio Dim the president of the Mexican republic u I tltualed In a line open country It can scarcely be gilled a valley m there are no mountain within a radiut of u or IS mile Irom the liniment The great Sierra Madre chain the luminilt ol which oral the boundary line between the Slate of Chiliuainii and honor are dltlan wettuard about ao mile If th it liu fratmJ nif use al dutrict I of frat fertile country in which Colouia Dial s I located II I to be termed a alley it is I about 70 miles long tram north to south with an aver mie width ol nearly twentyfive mile Tlir Cusoa Urandea elltert the valley Irom the oulhwel and alter pawiui IhroiiKli it In a loulheaileily direction Iciivis the tame at Boca Grande e I mi Dial Is i situated motile oath i I I1mingNew I 1 Mot tunl I n in ui luu IM Homhiil I tin i ltnol I lu ttu t II i Ii i I nul Mil I It i t tit 1 J I u 01 i I ll II I 111 U n p rt al Id < I I u Y It I rM ne an r I cat I t tu J I ii1 an U < I sat I a a t if want yn irly Iwnii I It ttdr t I Imo > 11 I rnrv I-mo I Iha I I I I Cllol I I I > t 1 I I Ilnrt north of Un n 11 towl tl Mi I i nl nlt mob uolrs miini or tot Kl 1 Paso If i rU 1 jjo nibs soul northwest of lime > < Chihuahua Ii i < lr IL cipiul r iVi north ol I luarea tie p reset II h ni < i of tl i i IM i I lexlcm Mii < ion 11 1 n per ni 80 tamllii of I i it mil lv it Colnla Duo I or tt Um I i Johnson junior I U Ii I and J loirph I henry lumen and CI i Ruben re hitconnKlon IV riioin t of 144 blorki each nf 1 uh I It 17 m la < inrr tulHdlvlded J Im i ur lot 1 I he tiievi are alA rod wila I onlyatnmil portion ol the town mcupled aa yt the other loll n 1111110 to make wmet for more settle rn dr nearly all the house In the < lon > in built II ol Mesicun ndoble common of uhith I to lasla6Inc11y itnkiiiK a liiinpol clay ul nimUerablt weight Moit I ul i he houte have no r I imnd in m to land l upon but In riular Mixic in I fashion the adobe i Is l rent upi n mother earth Itself 11 I l < meeting houw uhicli has been enl k il 1 a umber of lime It bulll nf the une matiiial it 1 dwelling mr the the dwelling honte i a numutr ol l incra encloalng the lots re also built of I = rhe = of adobe Elevated far above I the top the houtet of Ibe Hltlement there are nearly twenty windmill which are bunly engaged f on wimly day pumping to o tg6 depin off up water from a depth of from lo lo i j feet to the eurface where It to Uldlxed nol ally lor culinary purpotet but alto for watering tree I and garden pull There to plenty ol underground alert all over the country at the depth stated I t lo z i i but a more econonmal I and practical nay ol rablng It to the surface than by I the aid ul wlmlmllto Is I trout lo be introduced I in-troduced In Dial 1 The limited water lor Irrigation purpoe brought Into the colony land ao far Is I ohlalned from I the Cans Grande river through a canal stout live mile long and rem thin Palolado stream through a ditch originally origin-ally m ide by Mexican from whom our people have purchased water shares Thin mile ditch to about 1 15 mile long The original land purchase I nude in l nrlrA IIDI Lolonla Diai In ISM coniUled r ol about 7uxi acre subsequently 17000 acre iddltlonal were purchn ed hence the present colony coven an area ol jl 0 o acn tIne t-Ine tettlement wan liitt founded In taw nnd though the people have met with many dkupuointinent and have patted through many liardthlp and nome nrlvatlou they have stood their ground nobly and the prospects for Ihe butane now seems lo be bright and promiilng I Hereafter the people ex lSI wet to raise lufhcicnt breadttull to do i he colony hitherto they have I not done thin but haw had lo buy gram from the Mexican at CUM ramie and other place There are a number of linn young orchard In the tettlemtnt notAble not-Able among which It I one owned by the Illihop and another recently tel out by ill father Win D John oo who lormer I iy raided at an i ws the original founder ol Johnson Kane Co ttdi ColonU Dlax can alto bout of a candy f t factory and a broom uctory on a small cale a moll lure ttocketl with general mervhandu it i kept by Elder George M Brown late 01 Provo Utah A good understanding nll between the Mexican and Mormonueigh bon A great change for the better ilea taken place among the Mexican at La Atcencion and other place since Colon Dial I was founded they have adopted many of the way and mode of living of white people not only in their farming operation but In their domestic life Boiler firming Implement Imple-ment nave been Introduced among them they begin to uie Hove table chair etc In their houte and have even become more cleanly and neat I In their babitt during the pest few year La AciKlon h a ample Mexican town ol about jixxi Inhabitant It ho I the teal of government of sire municipal in which ColonU Din Ii illuated and tint to a part ol Dtotriclt Bravo which constitute con-stitute the northern part of the State of Chihiuhurawlilch la one oOhe 17 State competing Republic ol Mexico AMDRXW JIINaoN J |