Show THE PROSPECTS IN CHIHUAHUA A few words from chihuahua may interest the readers of the NEWS I 1 have been here about ten days having been detailed to this city to locate a line of railway from chihuahua to guerrero a distance of about miles there to connect with the main line of the mexican northern pacific railway this road will run from doming deming N M through the states of chuhua chihuahua sinaloa and part of sonora traversing a country full of natural advantages most of which today lie dormant for want of american energy and vim to utilize them butter here sells at 80 cents per pound and cheese brings a corresponding price this is a sample of possibilities which may be utilized here and to people like the latte rd day saints who know how to build up a new country this country may be calleris call cal edja ledis good one chihuahua has a population estimated at to has street cars electric lights well paved streets four or five beautiful beruti ful plazas or squares a cotton factory woolen factory churches a long lone aque aade duct nearly a mile long long arcades of arches cheB in some places thirty to forty leet feet high fine broad stone bridges with beautifully carved stone pars parapets to on each side and beautiful r pu public bl ic c buildings of the latter the government palace we would call it the bbate house bouse to is by I 1 far the most moat imposing it is about feet by square as I 1 paced 11 11 oed it and has costs cost a great sum IS each 1 h window cap must have cost several hundred dollars being most beautifully carved in tact fact the facades of the building are marvels of beauty in the plaza fronting the plaza hidalgo stands ft a monument erected in honor of miguel hidalgo y costilla the washington of mexico the leader who lighted the torch of liberty for this land having been defeated and captured by the spanish troops he was imprisoned for several months in a town near by and then shot on the spot now occupied by the monument this monument Is ie of beautiful mexican marble with four statues in bronze at the corners while at the summit of the shaft stands a statue of hidalgo the cost of the monument was as I 1 am told A regiment of federal infantry and one of cavalry occupy barracks here also aloo a force of state troops stationed in a large brick barracks every day the sound bound of drum and bugles re echoes through the streets as troops march through them and every sunday and thursday evening the two fine military bands play in the plazas until a lute hour at night in one respect I 1 like these plazas very much from the fact that all ground not occupied by walks is filled with flowers trees and shrubs andin and in each plaza is a large fountain tu to which daily resort multitudes of people with J water jars and other vessels for the 1 necessary fluid As to cl climate imite it is delightful although so far south its altitude J i feet gives it a moderate heat in guv sum mer while its low latitude gives a pleasant winter climate rarely cold enough to freeze roses bloom here in december retaining their leaves au all winter not to weary the reader I 1 will sim aim ply say that mexico is full of tunit iea les which to people like the lat ter day saints would be simply immense american capital and enterprise are setting into mexico in ia a steady stream and are producing a kind of peaceful revolution in business busine aa and social matters which will be no ti ceable in a few more years J H i CHIHUAHUA mexico june 1 |