Show LETTER FROM NEW MEXICO after seeing evidences evidence of excessive labor perseverance self sacrifice faith and patience continued for years in some of the settlements of arizona with very little material return there for it was very refreshing to visit springerville Spring erville thirty five miles southeast of st johns and find the saints there meeting with all the encouragement they could reasonably ask for in establishing new homes quite a settlement of mexicans and non mor imor mon w hite men was established in what is known ah round valley before any of the saints gained a foothold there and for some y ears after the latter settled fettled in the valley they made no effort to establish a new town but located in the irregularly shaped mexican village in the lower end of the valley a rather uti unsightly sightly place of abode at the suggestion of apostle erastus snow who during the later years of his life took such a lively interest in the settling of arizona and to whose wisdom to is largely due the prosperity which now attends the saints in this thia land they were at length induced to secure a large amount of land in the upper end of the valley valey which was open to entry and besides being of the very choicest kind for agricultural purposes was also much better situated for a townsite than where the old settlement lement was located under his direction also brother geo H crosby with whose ability as a bishop he be had been familiar in southern utah where he served in that capacity for eight years each in hebron and leeds was selected to preside it was a happy selection the crosby family are all workers from the grandsire brother jesse W crosby now of overton nv nov down to the youngest gran achild who is able to handle a tool or drive a team an aej I 1 none among them are more indefatigable than geo H disaster in the shape of tire fire has visited him three times twi twice cePIn ln utah an and dODee once in arizona and destroyed much of his bis hard aa famed arned substance but these have only served as aa temporary back sets to his prosperity and never wholly discouraged cou raged him such subh industry and perseverance as his combined with natural intelligence and the wisdom which experience has brought to him are sure to succeed and his financial fina prospects are brighter today than they ever have been the members of the ward of springerville springer Spring erville valle seem geem possessed pos seaBed too of the same enterprising spirit duboin some degree doubtless to his example i and influence and they are accod accomplishing ng wonders in the way of fencing building making water ditches and cultivating the soil and receiving encouragement therein by raising good crops this is the granary of this part of Ar arizona izna and off offers ers better facilities to the farmer than any place I 1 have seen since entering the territory when the additional canals and reservoirs which are projected shall have been constructed several thousand acres of excellent land now unclaimed will be opened for settlement and hundreds of saints in addition to those already there can then make homes in Spring springerville erville the most moat extensive farmers in the place are president david budaji and his brother joseph who have acres of land in one piece and are this year cultivating upwards of acres of it they also have an excellent grist mill fitted up with ane latest improved roller process machinery on their property which does the custom grin grinning aing for nutrioso alpine and reber heber situated higher up in the mountains as L well as for the inhabitants of its vicinity the citizens of st J johna also expect to increase their water supply and materially teri ally extend the area of cultivatable land by building reservoirs for far which they have some excellent sites one of which I 1 visited on my way down from springerville Sprine Spring erville and which when the dam now partially built shall be completed will cover nearly acres to a depth va varying from two to twenty feet from this reservoir and others othera situated lower down the stream water can be conveyed to the highest messas in the valley similar advantages are expected to be gained iu in many of the settlements of arizona by the construction of reservoirs and efforts toward their establishment lish ment have already commenced or 0 are about to be in Show low concho and other places I 1 was particularly pleased to find bishop C I 1 kempe of concho prospering as a merchant and enjoying the confidence and patronage of the mexicans as well as the white people who reside in his neighborhood since his imprisonment in the detroit house of correction for being too much married he acknowledges that he has been greatly bles sedr in a worldly sense the grasshoppers mariade myriads of which are found in the fields in the vicinity of st johns conati constitute tute one of the chief sources of discouragement to the farmers the tb insects do not seem to be of the migratory kind such as infested many parts of utah in years gone by as they do not fly and they seem to be increasing yearly the ride by jerky or buckboard on which the mall mail is carried between st dt johns and navajo springs a distance of fifty three miles is without interest as is that by rail for most of the way from there to doming deming that over the 8 and P road being performed in the night and that over the santa pe fe road being for most of the distance through a wild and very dry country As far as the road passes through mexican fields and villages along the shares of the rio bio grande they present an interesting study deming is ah american town of probably 2000 or 2500 inhabitants there being but few mexicans here it is supported by the railways mines and stock interests and there is a bank and several stores berwall be he doing a very good business it is a town of windmills there being not less than forty of these structures in sight from one position in the town and many more scattered about on ranches their pur pose being to te lift water from the wells which is generally found at a depth of about seventy feet to the surface for domestic use and for the stock kept by the people here I 1 found bishop wm win D johnson located he be having bharga of the railroad work being done for J ohn W young also brother DM tenney who has a contract for constructing the first ninety miles of the grade which is now completed for a distance of seventy miles eight subcontract sub contract ors with teams and men re laboring under and it is ie expected that the force will soon be greatly increased brother J fewson smith of salt bait lake city who is chief engineer of the mexican pacific is also here and his bis duties are so pressing that he be cannot leave to fill the position lately awarded d to him in the city council for some time to come G C L DOMING N M july 6 1891 |