Show YANKEES AND moti missionaries metting iii ili elder S F kimball of mese arizona aritis irom state cf ef mexican alex decem ber oth to a relative ift lake who has permitted the to make the fol following lowing excerpt of hia his interesting communication I 1 arn am anil miles es south of mesa blesa city having been culled called on a mission tug i witti apostles Apostle 3 young and grant and nm aw camped four miles south of the a alfo c mentioned place w with ith 11 II J grant and twelve others of cur ur party apostle young president Al macdonald acdonald and about the same number asare as are with us got on the cars and went aown to guaymas Gua mas and from there by at up t lie yaqui kiver river to bee see t the lie chief of the yaqui station if the they y have the blessing of god attending their desires we will all cross the 4 from here to the east about miles and stop stoll a couple of weeks with this people and introduce the glo gospel appl ppl them this tribe of f Lama have an independent form of government and will not nat allow the mexicans to come among them therefore bathol has no hold on thedas it has on the mexican people of this country there are twenty three of us a all I 1 told and al all I 1 selected nied from st joseph and maricopa maricola Mari copa stakes men who keep the word of wisdom and trying to 0 do right it surprises the people in in these parts to see so many men and anti not one of them using tobacco or indulging in any bad habits the governor of this state has been very kid hid to us ug and so have all tile dignitaries of the place the lord liaa has been with os so far and u wo e can see by the power that lias has been manifested tt tl at there is a great work to be done in this land not among tile mexicans 4 that I 1 know of but among this ya yaqui qui tribe which numbers up of wo we came here will with teams and lave have been almost three weeks on the lie road and will probably probably be live five weeks more gave I 1 have ewt seen any country in mexico trtat suits inn 1110 as well aa as my home hoine in mesa ness oranges grow row in abundance there an and on only y three fourths ofa of a cent each ich there are iata of other kinds off ruith here the theor oranges are ripe and are s splendid this yaqui con country nry I 1 hey say is alje garden arden of mexico exico the tile river overflows like the tile kilo nile this rive river r heads close to st david about foo miles south and runs in ill a south westerly direct direction inn and empties into the gulfon gulf of california about so venty five miles below where wo we are now ea encamped camped I 1 fiel fi el VP rk tich interested in this rn mission and nm satisfied from what I 1 have seen that good will come out 1 of it it ia is a blittle little remarkable that president young jedediah INI grant and mid fallier 11 ilc C kimball have eab eadi a son on this mission grant 1 was speaking about it just this morning mornin in I 1 id is lite capital of Sonora and anti hasa lias a population of between 13 15 and I 1 should j judge and all catholics Catholic ts there are t three old fashioned fashio ticO in the place and aban gb in any time and see these on their knees reading their prayers and looking as if they were mourning mou ruing fori friends |