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Show IIIIIIITES HUE ' PLEASED WITH imp Valley of 200,000 Acres la Transformed Into Producing Pro-ducing Tract T. PABO, Tn. Jum 17. Mew-nonltee Mew-nonltee from Csnada who Milled Iwo month ago in Chihuahua, Mexico, ax learning to build nd occupy dob dwellings nf Mexican pattern. Contrary to pessimistic and sensa-llnnal sensa-llnnal reporta, tha colonists r getting get-ting on well with tha Mexican! and are well pleased with tha country, ar-oordlng ar-oordlng to a acor of Americana, Ca-nadlana Ca-nadlana and Mexlcana and Mennonltea who haT been on tha a pot Tha tat. ter aay that already the colonlata hava transformed lha valley of Ban Antonio -from a barren landarapa Into a place of atlrrlnit vlllsges. aparloue barna. gardens and tree. The Men nonltea occupy 200,000 acre. Lurid atorlea atatln that the pilgrims pil-grims from Canada hava "fallen union thieves" are emphatically denied de-nied from reponalbta source. It I aaaertad on lha contrary that there la no banditry nor frlotlon In tha Mennonltea' quarter: that "they Ilka tha Mexlcana and tha Mexican Ilka them," and that a aecnnd 1004 Mennonltea Men-nonltea will leave Canada for Chihuahua Chihua-hua In June. John Y. n. Wleb. who helped the first thoueand Mennonltea get located In thalr new promlaed land, haa juat returned from tha colony. Sine hla negotlatlone to get tha aect from their Canadian homee Into Mexico ha haa been made agricultural agent for lha Mexico Northweetern railroad. "Tha Mennonltea Ilka thalr neighbor neigh-bor and tha Mexlcana like them," ha aald. "The Mennonltea ar buey planting and plowing and building houeea and barna. Their children ara In achool. and a substantial building la uaed for school and church. Their rattle ara fat; there la no alcknea. and everything la all right with them " , Mexican Conaul General Luis Montea da Oca of El Paao, whoaa of-flc of-flc helped arrange tha paaaage of th first looo Mennonltea, and other Mexican official denied tha report that Mexico doea not want any mora Mennonlt aettiere. "A thousand mora Mennonltea will leav Canada early In June, accord- . Ing to present plana," aald Mr. Wlebe. "Freight ratea hava been adjusted In their favor, and rate through various polnta of entry hav been equalised, and tha next train load will come through El Paao. New ratea will aavo tha colonist $loo to $:S00 on a tralnload of freight, and tha Mennonltea Menno-nltea now era gottlng ready to leave." Among person who corroborated Mr. Wlebe's report were Charlea Moeller of Kl Paao, th Rev. George Huhler or Canada, Jacob Wlebe, Klaaa Relde, Frani Proea, Abram Pater and Peter Neufeld, Mennonltea ul Manitoba. |