| Show COLONIES AND RAILROADS IN MEXICO THE chicago papers are publishing reports of interviews inter views with don dan luls luis Hulle the city of mexico in regard to the proposed purchase by certain mormons cormons Mor mons ofa of a large tract of land in mexico he states that it is situated in the state of chihuahua and consists of acres he said the parties interested one of whom was john W young had bad an option on the land for ninety days and he senor benor huller was to get a bounty of 50 per head from the mexican government for every bona fide b settler on these lands who is over twelve years of age he mentioned this as evidence that the mexican government was not averse to mormon settlers who were expected to be the me principal occupants of this tract he said as reported in the chicago tribune 0 there are already three mormon colonies adjacent to the land I 1 desire to soil sell to them and the people in the three p places r es have tra unformed transformed what was a desert nto into a perfect ya paradise radise instead of sand hills you coin can find at present in the colonies of ascensions and diaz thousands of fruit trees beautiful parks and water which is brought to the ponds in the yards ar loans in front of the magnificent homes by means of a canal nine miles long all these see improvements were ma male made le by bv the mormons cormons themselves not one of the colonists has more than one wife because the laws of mexico against polygamy are even more strict than those of the united states he spoke of a railroad which it was expected would be built under the direction of john W young from southern utah through tigh clifton arizona to the mormon colonies in chi burbus and said mr young was already engaged in building 1900 1500 miles of railroad in mexico the chicago globe mentions this also and says the senor ro remarked marked further the mormons cormons are just the kind of people we need down there even if the mexican people are jealous of them we have tried other colonists with dire results for instance the government offered large inducements to italian immigration and it cost them two million dollars to do away with the results though even today the streets of mexico city are filled with italian beggars the mormon colonies are but one phase in medicos cos general advance of prosperity the country unquestionably ranks next to the united states as the republic of the new world we have a wise ruler in diaz and the law now allowing it he will be his own successor with us four years is too short a presidential term for what one president builds up ancher destroys diaz has largely given our republic its stable character and that it is stable is shown by germanys germanas Germ anys loan to us of 50 to which they last year added even including this loan otar indebtedness is smaller than that of any other nation on earth 9 |
