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Show COLOXIA JUAREZ, MEXICO. We have an abundant crop of fruit of the finest quality. Miles A. Romney is putting the roof on his new brick building. Nathan Clayson has a nice brick residence res-idence in course of construction. A large quantity of corn, will be produced pro-duced this season without irrigation. The rainy season is on in. earnest and all nature smiling in her robes' of green. President Ivins expects to have his new brick residence finished before spring, Joseph C, Bentley is employing fifteen fif-teen hands in his cannery and is putting up a large quantity of fruit. Efforts are being made' to obtain a municipal charter for Colonia Juarez with every prospect of success. Rich mineral discoveries are being made in the Sierra Madres and we expect ex-pect a mining boom in the near future. There are twelve heads of families in the colonies who formerly lived in "Dixie," nearly all of whom are in the public service. ' Numbers of cattle men from the United States are looking for ranches which they wish to buy and stock with Mexican cattle. Bears, lions, and wolves, are destroying destroy-ing a great many calves and colts this season and sometimes grown horses are killed by the lions. Ex-Governor Terrasas is here gathering gather-ing cattle. He is said to be the largest larg-est individual cattle owner in the world having about 150,000 head. The quarterly conference of the Juarez Juar-ez Stake was held last Saturday and Sunday. The meetings were well attended at-tended and greatly enjoyed. The Piedras Verdes river, which flows through the town of Juarez, has been raging for several days, the result of heavy rains in the mountains. The Thatcher Lumber company have ordered a new saw mill to replace the one recently" burned. I.t' will be the most complete plhi in the country with a capacity of 25,000 feet per day. The second school year of the Juarez Stake Academy commenced on Monday with nearly 200 pupils and more to come. The faculty, consisting of Guy C. Wil- son and Miss Emrna .Larson, botn trom the Brighani Young Academy, Pearl Thurder, Sarah A. Clayson, Dennison E. Harrison and Sullivan C Richards, is equal to the best, and the now brick school house of nine rooms "would do credit to a much larger and older community. com-munity. The house has been built by the voluntary contributions of the people, peo-ple, and a free school is maintained by an income tax which is assessed and collected on the same principle. Mexico. Colonia. Juarez, Mexico, Aug. 27, 1898. |
