| Show THE SAINTS IN MEXICO the colony of jaureg in ChIl mahns described JUAREZ ua na mexico august 1887 editor deseret news after a silence of several years and alter after passing through a number dumber of scenes of varying int interest erst abrams Am rams wakes up this beautiful sunnier morning in juarez and after eating a comfortable for table breakfast and indulging in some seme thought decides that the reader of the NEWS or at least some of them might be pleased to hear from this small colony of mormons cormons Mor mons located upon the banks of the beautiful clear piedras verde river in canton galeana mexico are about thirty families here at present who are busily attending to crops building houses making roads and ditches and in other necessary labor who considering all circum stances are tolerably contented although people are coming and going as is usually the case in all new settlements some feel encouraged others the reverse but in the midst ol of all the various opinions your correspondent is firmly of the opinion that ere long a beautiful ii little atle city will be built upon this spot THE CLIMATE is healthy never very co d in winter or very verv hot in summer the highest point indicated by the thermometer this his summer was 96 deg 1 and already it its a moderating in consequence of tile the rains chieh hieb began about the ath of july and have continued ever since causing the ills hills to be covered with a mantle of beautiful green grass during the latter part of winter and spring it is usually very dry here and the grass is not the best of feed on oh the high benches beaches during that season of the year THE FARMING LAND of juarez that can at the present time be irrigated including the to townsite is about acres and there is possibly bet veen four aad alv five hundred acres acres on the opposite aid of the river that can be irrigated as soon as ano another ditch is taken out which w N ill be surveyed next week it is not thought that wheat will do so well on this land as corn cane and otner products there is considerable land in ia the wash on this thin claim that no doubt will eventually be cultivated but it if irrigated it will have to be done by making reservoirs which it is thought can be successfully made tile the ranch contains over acres of grazing land for stock juarez is laid out with streets running from southeast to northwest and from southwest to northeast the principle streets being eight rods wide and all other streets being six rods wide having four lots in a block about fourteen ros rois square the city is somewhat une uneven v en in its surface furnishing some very beautiful lul building spots it also contains a public square and a park adjoining adjo inia it which at present has quite a lot of trees upon it and in time with labor can be made a beautiful desort Y for all classes of people the river has cottonwood trees grow ing along its banks also a few as ash h sycamore and walnut trees which form one of the chief natural attractions of the place very little w wheat heat was raised this year but the corn cane beaus beans and other vegetables and products will probably bean be an average considerable lucern lucern has been planted some of which is doing remarkably well and that is a deiy useful crop which can be raised quite buhe successfully in this country and which will be absolutely needed during the dry season of the year THE earthquake that visited this part of the country in june last was quite an event and though so long ago an account of its effect to us might prove interesting to some pi oi your readers all at once about 3 0 clock in the afternoon after noen the earth began to quake and tremble our old huts began to sway away to and fro women and cu children ildren ran out of them with blanched faces many of them exclaiming it is an earthquake it is an earthquake and immediately all 11 eyes were turned towards the sierra madres ad res the entire length of which for thirty miles emiles a seemed to be swaying backwards and forwards and from their precipices could be seen falling huse masses of rock causing an immense dust to te rise a mile high in tile the air this dust was immediately followed by bv smoke and in a short shore time fires could be seen along the entire range in places as far as the eye could penetrate these fires we think were caused by the friction fric tien of the falling rocks and at night they pr presented a truly grand sight and some soine of them continued to burn for weeks now strange tp say the folio following day the water in the piedras piear as verde river which wis was getting very low began to rise until it was increased one third in volume and has continued conti aued so ever since aud and we all felt thack thankful ful for the shaking and are willing to stand another even though it does dods produce a queer sensation if its effects will prove as beneficial to us for by that providential event we have had bad an abundance of lof water for our ur crops and the mexican cali population below us as fer 1 that we will not be any injury to them as they also have had plenty of water and we believe that linthe 1 in the future there will not be any question aagut the i lights of water all having abundance we give god the praise for the increase the report of the new york herald about the GREAT near harispe Bari in sonora procured at great ex expense cerise as it asserts is alm almost ost as truthful truthful as the usual statements statements made by anti cormons mormons Mor mons ta la regard to te our people people there Is not a word of in t the country around there was badly broken up but no volcanic eruption took place why will such I 1 journals lessen their influence by publishing such exciting statements our sawmill has been at work and has cut considerable timber attached to this mill is a shingle mill a lath and a mill all the maciey machinery I 1 is of a first rate quality the lumb lumber made is ia of a good quality in texture very much like the parowan carowan Jurn lumber ber the mill is now situated about eighteen miles from juarez but will before long probably be removed a few miles further away quite a number more people could by perseverance AND HARD LABOR make homes here bere and at corallis in the mountains and at diaz near la ascencion at the two last named places there are advantages that are not offered to settlers I 1 in n this place which I 1 may speak of in my next communication muni cation an efficient tanner could create quite u business here bere it lie be had pluck and energy as those two qualities seem to b be e necessary yin in making new settlements and in starting business in a new country A very kindly feeling exists between our people and their mexican neigh bors and our treatment since being here has been very kind and generous though the migration of the mor mons to this place that the anti cormona Mor mona have talked so much about if carried oa 06 at the rate rat that it has been for the last two years would take about three thousand years to complete AMRAM |
