Show -- 43- exlles in the manner they should conduct themselves under the Mexican laws It was not from Utah alone that people migrated to Chihuahua New Mexico and Arizona as well contributed colonizers for all had been subject to the cane In accordance with agreements between tho Diaz government and the Mormons they were to enter free from tariff duties and also were to be tar exempt for a persecutions 20 period of ten years after settling in Mexico The Mexican Agricultural and Colonizing Company a Mormon association Incorporated under the laws of Colorado to adjust the problems of land purchase ana other necessary arrangements for such an undertaking At the close of 1910 it was estimated that this company alone 21 controlled some three hundred acres of land in Mexico was formed credit for this prosperity was in no small measure due to the efforts of Anthony 1 Ivans the first president of the company He was well fitted for his Job As a practical business man he had made a success of his work at As a man he was likeable and respected St George Utah The by all who came At in contact with him the tine of the migration the most direct route 20 Gilbert Cunningham Terry Mexico11 World fl Work XX 13071-7- 8 21 Ibid "A Little Utah in |