Show With a Courage That Never Faltered Built Their Fathers Built They as Mn MORMON MUN MEXICO IS DESOLATE SAYS DISPATCH But Back We Go to Mexico Declares Declares' E E. LH L. L v Pratt v H r- r r.- r. II EL PASO Ma May 23 Twenty five years ago lb A II part party of exiles from Utah went Into northern Chihuahua They h settled nettled as ns their forca forefathers thera dl did In a land desolate beyond belief bellet The They and the men who came cama after them from Utah again as their forefathers had made the tho desert r rAgain blossom as a n rose Again the desert is desolate Colonia Juarez In Inspiration a second Salt SnIt Lake City is a n city that was WM The poplar trees planted In loving remembrance of ot the tho mother Zion about the ruins of the bI big brick academy which was 33 to be bEl a n second center of Mormon e education watch and walt Malt I. I Colonia Dublan four miles from Casas Cosas Grande Is now a a. constitutionalist capital capi capt tal Barefooted sentinels walk valk their beats beate in th the Irrigation ditches that were and Isolated In the thet t pine lne hills of at th the Sierras have ha fared no iio It better perhaps better perhaps worse The Mormon colonies in Chihuahua are practically deserted The Tho work ork of oC a quarter of at a century has hns been undone Will It over oer be resumed E. E L L. L Pratt thinks It will wilf Ur Mr Pratt who Is IB n at t present visiting his brother Ra Ray flay L. L Pratt said to a a. TELEGRAM reporter la last l nl night night- ht I arrived e In Salt Lake City anI only four days ago and I can report Deport that when hen tho the chance cornea there Intro will witt be a sener general I exodus of ot those and other Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans who were ere In Mexico back hack to that country countr out of the United States But I would say that those who return will do doliO doso doso so liO because they thc think they have hae better chances there than in the United States Those of course coure who have hac found better opportunities In this country than Mexico wilt will remain here It is simply a matter of f preference At Colonia Dublan where I was farm tarm farming ing one Ing-one one ne of oC the L. L D D. S S. S church colonies colonJes- we Wp left all our property in the tho care o othe of the natives when we came up north re recently re- re The constitutionalists ha hayo 1 a camp two miles from tram Colonia Dublan known as Nueva Nue Casas Grandes For Formerly Formerly merly th they had a garrison in tho the colony But that has hu been removed remo since At A t the time 0 of m mv my departure from Mexico all ull the property In the tho colony colon was as SAte safe But I cannot fa say for tor ho how long long- it will m remain so 80 In Colonia Juarez sixty miles north of ot Dublan things s were worse Bandits had burned half halt the property there The Tho other five of at the seven SC church col col- onles onlea had harl suffered Buffered in a n similar manner I II I really do not know how man many Utahn i iI there thero aro are in Mexico today tollay Those who 1 I were In th the colonies had b been en there them for Cor from fifteen to twenty years arB so It oft is It hn hard nl to tell teU what Nta states tee they originally 11 came from to Mexico And as CI I t said be before her I fore tOre they thc will return when hen opportunity offers if in the meantime the they have not 1 found better opportunities in th the United 1 States I expect to return at nt the first chance I All AU the church officials in char charge e of the colonies which were vere later organized into wards returned to the United States month months n ago afro o when ordered to do BO so b by th I authorities Bishop Bentley of ot Colonia Colonl Juarez was about the last hutt from Mexican soil coll later returned there thero and I then came to t the States 8 once more morp and I be believe II Is now in Utah I II also alpo think that President Junius Romney I the slake stake president in charge harEe of the i I stake organization made up of or nil nit col co colonies col- col onies onles but which has since been dl las hai b bf been en n In Utah for a long lonE time |