Show MONTEZUMA LAND COLONIA DIAZ mexico jan ath 1893 the weather in those these parts la Is warm and ummer like aud and all kinds of outdoor work are going ahead fully as well as at any season of the year so jar far as climate is concerned we have plenty of it and of a quality that hat is not easily excelled in any part of the world but with some other things we I 1 are D not at so BO well supplied farm farming tug facilities are not numerous in this part of the state and our colo late have acquired but a very limited portion of the little there is ALs ac yet all the colonies are drawing the great bulk of their bread supply from the melitan farmers lu in the neighborhood of casas grandee grande and of course are paying aoh arach prices as they choose to impose the outlook for raising our own bread in sufficient quantity Is not yet very pro promising miming the main reason for this being a lack of water for irrigation at the places where the colonies are situated several attempts have hare been blade to purchase an interest in the lands and waters at casas grandes with a view to bettering the agricultural of those who desire to make homes here the colony of dublan was founded in that vicinity and lands were cheap and owners desirous of selling moiling but owing to certain adverse circumstances over which the promo tore ten of that enterprise had bad no control the matter has baa met with but indifferent access up to the present I 1 am fully convinced that the day is na n at far distant when the large roger reser doirs in that vicinity will be utilized and by the storage of the high waters and the inaugurating of a better system of cultivation the producing capabilities bili ties of that naturally fertile district will be multiplied many times and then and probably not until then will the poor of these colonies feel as though their bread were secure on a recent visit to the city of chihuahua I 1 had bad an opportunity of con merging verging with a number of mining men and find that as a rule they are doing well one reason of this is that they mine mide considerable gold geld as well as am liver eliver and the mexican laws being liberal toward the minor miner he feels like he can get along here as am well as am in any part of the world the small email rebellion of the people of near guerrero in the western part of the state culminated about the of november last about five hundred people were killed in all of these about three fourths were solders solden the rest being the rest reel dente among whom were some women and children it le ie difficult to under stand the reason for this desperate resistance si stance on the part of the people to the authority of the government it is ot of course claimed by many that it was oppression on the part of the government but as everybody else beeme adems to get along well with the officials and to do about as they please it stems seems strange that one small email community should be so oppressed the most likely explanation ot of the affair and one that is well authenticated by people dwelling in the vicinity is that it was promoted by religious enthusiasm thusia sm A prophetess is said to have spent some time among the people previous to the outbreak and worked them up to resist the government while the af affair fairis is much to be lament ed yet it is difficult to see how the government could have acted much different forent lif fow f ow OKI what it did and any other government would have done about the same under like circumstances there baere was no alternative either the government had to conquer or back down it is generally believed however that the management on the part of the military officials was bad and that a short siege instead of 01 storming the stronghold would have saved many soldiers as well as some of the rebels and would have been more creditable all around it to is generally thought in these parts thattie that the eup supposed posed revolutionary movements mention on the border along the lower rio grande county are much exaggerated and that yankee newspaper newa paper reporters want no DO better subject for a sensation than the rat raiding ing of a few discontented individuals into mexican territory mure more soon BODD GEO M BROWN |