Show DOWN IN MEXICO COLONIA JUAREZ mexico dec 7 1895 our party consisting of elders F M lyman anthony ivina ahmod tinney and 1 I drove the conveyance sixty miles to dublan the some day mexico has baa some same strange lonely country in its domain four miles out cut from diaz is la a mexican what shall I 1 call it borne call it a town of 1800 to to 2000 people the streets are this way that way and several times the other way the houses are much the same as the streets mudd muddy y looking low flat fist and uninviting everything looks confused we drove through the crooked they were very narrow but the land jadd is grand and millions of acres of it the grandes runs close along and through the valley the whole broad valley is one of the best beat by far that we havil have seen in mexico there is a large stream led by springs nearly one half of which is owned by the mormon community the soil Is very good and our community are building up and spreading out with every prospect of success A church has been built randsome and some respectable dwellings at ai twelve feet good water may be ba bau some wind mills mill are erected with success at 1030 1039 a m where we baited our teams tomme some geme antelope were la in sigh tanu tana a flock of quail came in view we had bad driven about twenty miles this be day we offered up our pray prayers ere and thanksgiving Bg unto we the lord and drove over dry barren land aud and baited at the big bg head of the cases grande the only water we have seen been since before coming to the be mexican town there has been plenty of grass gram all day on our way we pasted a mexican town Corra lilas anti and soon were met daei by a fresh team which took most of us ue ou on to dublan by dusk we also passed an abandoned town balancas Bar ancas by name here it is in where a sewing bowing machine man was allured into a house to warm and rest when he was murdered this T big occurred about one year ago he was known to have some money and it was for this he be was killed some lonely country was next passed amongst the most lovely soon eoon ory ery today we passed some large clumps or of the cactus in bloom li it looked delightful breaking the monotony of the journey allot all of us were pleased to meet warmhearted warm hearted to kindly receive us into their humble habitations habitat ione amongst the foremost was bishop winslow parr farr formerly or at ogden city utah also doctor la goona as the mexicans Mex ioane call him really george lake around the old fashion ed fireplaces many of the toils toile and labors labom related the mormon people are pr arc ver bially a obe cheerful erful happy persevering people always trusting in 10 the lord for divine aid I 1 once heard board the prophet joseph while pass ling ing through the missouri mob biggs say when be was told that the missouri Ml would like lik to force us irom from ane country and culot out of the world and finally down to their kind of bell well it if wey bey do so we will turn the devil out and make a heaven of it for the destiny of mormon lem ism is to bring this fallen planet back into its if pristine glory as an it was in edens time isaish alth chapter was quoted where the lion and the lamb lamba boulLi lie its down together the unlimited faith in god which ia BO tenaciously adhered to has haa OL et abbed this little band together with all others of like integrity to endure so eo many reverses and to have establishes establish eu butlan and otner other colonies in mexico enfil now diaz courts tbt colonization of his dominion by it is indeed very interesting to hear bear how many difficult benee these colonists have endured to finally gain a looting that now is aD joyed ii if seems as though the crust cruet is broken towns art are established arms opened water sees becs dams dame put in and preparations made to increase reservoirs one prospective that we have visited which it successful cess ful will cover acres sufficient to make mahe three lakes to receive the casas grandes lu in it its times of lag it for times when it runs nearly dry millions Mif flous of acres of mexican soil will thus ke be turned into acres of fruit falness ful ness one governor vernor lost his official head fiend by interfering with those persistent mormons cormons who wherever they go turn barren deserts into fruitful field pros pres dent diaz has bas laried it brlej to seek reek just such colonists as atio ali 0 made utah what it is now DOW the future of those once despised dest leed mormons cormons in old mexico anthe on the F joutz the dominion Domini oo of Cans canada ids i on the north and in arizona and idaer is being made all the be better belter alter after visiting and holding a series ot of meetings with the people of dublac which number about people or souls we were taken in carriages over to go juarez sixteen miles passieu th through rugh cases grandee grand es in interpreted grand large tic bo uses but it looks looke tous to us like ake a large adobe yard it Is said that the population Is about 2000 inhabitants what a beautiful tractor tract of fertile land and fields they posse ehl the wooden plow will be substituted soon ny by the mormon style there Is certainly a great work to be done here tor for the of fallen humanity we hold two days meet meetings iDge at this beautiful place of about goud good people EDWARD STEVENSON |