Show COLONIA MARINO MEXICO feb 9 1896 lo in to Lum erous letters of in about this coun coon ry please let me any aay through the NEWS that this place is ie about thirty two iwo miles mouth ot of colonia garcia but on thib the western lope of the sierra Mad reson the headwaters headwater of the baviere bavispe river one of the main tributa tributaries ries of the yaqui river the elevation being teet feet above sea level with plenty of pine timber any acy size eize wanted also juniper oak and some ash and also spruce pine we have several kinds of grass that we cut for bay the white gramma boing being the best the stock seem to sat eat the wild timothy about as aa well for land we have loam or blue clay and gravelly red clay water to Is not dot needed except for gardens and where land is plowed in march or april and logged down but vary little is needed for gardens our oar last bad spring frost came may alay and a killing frost oct we have proved that our oar corn oats potatoes rye squashes cucumbers and cabbage can caal be based and some kinds of wheat did well white flint c rn and red beani planted june 2nd and got ripe while white alabe turnips planted june letb only weighed aj 9 pounds we had about a toot of snow jan which is nearly gone now and where the ground is bare it freezes about if 1 inches 83 easome some people have to food feed pigs a little as it d doea oes not thaw out enough for pigs to dig much before noun otherwise berwise oi they get their living the whole year if one needs a lot lob containing acres of land it can be got at 40 cents per acre Other otherwise we pay from 84 cents to per sere acre and the most or the ditch work we expect to do will be to keep the water oft our land in the abe rainy season our saw sawmill mill has not yet materialized so we are doing but very little at present our nearest postoffice post office to la at colonga garcia so people writing must address there aad ud not to our oar old name as above or colonia mariano Mar lano our new name neither bedink bein known on the mall mail routes we having no postoffice poat post office our population is about eighty and all are able to eat their rations ions M H |