Show NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE f Bate piti bavishi river sonora mex jan 28 1898 in my letter from oaxaca I 1 promised r to give your readers some information about this place when the river ba leaves oaxaca it runs north by H west some fifteen miles then turns I 1 rest est through a box canyon five miles I 1 then cuts into the end of a long valley some felir foyr or five miles wide then tere another canyon south by west snaking a large bend and in this bend from the north down the valley cornea comes the Bate pita river from which this place takes its name from here down t the two rivers make the yaqui river this grant contains about acres 4 of land most of it is grazing land tut but there is some good farm land upon it but not so much as was said to be by some that have visited it our par ty looked over the ground and leveled the canals here again we found that it would cost more than at first estimated to get the water on the land it is also said that the Bate pita goes r dry every year ye ar for about aix weeks i and that the bavishi has been known r to go dry once or twice the land i T r near the small hills and the higher y flats on which towns could be made are covered with dense growth of timber i good only for firewood it is a kind of gl a bastard locust very hard and brash efel but makes very good fuel the climate y i is a little warmer than oaxaca we i were ere there in january the days were 1 warm and delightful with a very little frost at night but this is said to be the 11 coldest winter for years most kinds r of fruit would do well here and possibly r the orange but that is not certain this place is in a direct line forty lf miles from the united states line sev enty alve e miles from bisbee in arizona t dive alv miles from krontiras Fron tiras in so nora aomand and fifty miles from the town of Bavi up the river this valley was 1 visited by an earthquake in 1887 which y made the valley sink and has left a J mark all round the east eart and south of f e 1 it tor for miles in some places blaces the gap is eight feet wide and the upper side from aix to fifteen feet higher having a per cular wall the same shake threw down the church at Ba bavishi fifty miles south up the river and killed r some bome sixty persons the road from Bate piti north into the united states vis very good we came up the river through the san bernardino mardino Be ranch and d over to bisbee then down the san C pedro dro river to st david a settlement of et tatter latter day saints st david to is situ 1 aced ota oh the san pedro river 20 miles north of tombstone and seven miles A f southeast of benson on the line of the lizbee liH bee and nogales railroads two lines tanning bunning parallel from fairbanks to down the san pedro river there are re now about thirty families in el the place they are scattered about or ight miles on the river at the bottom end of the valley is a fine flat of about 1700 acres which is to be the town 0 o tit bilte the land is all filed on and rn acme have their patents and are wil to sell to those of a like faith the town is watered partly by canal and r partly by flowing wells which are very easy to make as the formation is such t that in a well of feet only about 80 wor or 40 fett feet of pipe is used the wells 2 are A made by the washing process and b are made in from 5 to 12 days the people here want about 30 or more families and they invite inspection of this place merchandise is very reasonable here while farm products of all kinds bring a good price ba led hay when hauled twenty miles fetches 10 to 12 per ton eggs 30 cents per dozen etc any further information wanted about the Bate piti country can be had by whitin ato A W ivins juarez or to elder L S huish payson all under the direction of A W ivins I 1 L S H the subjoined sub joined paragraph is from the arizona star the matter of artesian water has been settled in the san pedro valley between benson and fairbanks there are twenty six artesian wells now in successful use supplying as many farmers which have been developed by the st davids mormon colony the latter day saints are wonderfully good people tor for a new country they are industrious frugal honest and courageous th they ey were the first to introduce irrigation in the united states that was in utah they were the first to introduce irrigation in arizona that was in apache maricopa maricola Mari copa and griham graham counties now they are the first to develop artesian wells and thus become the pioneers of this important factor for reclaiming the rich of arizona what these theme inter members of the church of the latter day saints have done at st davids in san pedro valley ought to be accomplished in many other valleys of arizona if it cannot be accomplished in any other way the territory ought to pay a royalty to the I 1 mormon people for each and every swarm or colony they plant in the valleys of arizona where they develop artesian water they are a people worthy of appreciation for the work they have done and they should be cultivated for the good th they are doing now and will accomplish in the future |