| Show MEXICAN COLONISTS UNDER NEW REGIME colonia pacheco mex editor record our rains which began early in may have continued end rn on july 23 we had a clou cloudburst AbUT si that hat beat anything everdeen ever seen in fat checo A ecy hail storn lef left t hail bull s six ix inches I 1 ches delphi de dee plin phi ajay flat fla t cornix completely destroying the corn also dant dam aged fl adly the crops crops in poverty klat and the he porter fields adjacent to town there was also a terrible electrical storm accini accompanied parilea it but the lightning did no damage the rhe lucesc by ha hail i llis is about 1600 0 A lew few days das later while wm Anderson wits wai U so ha teh ng baruck Bt ruck the ehm ney partly demolishing demoll lt 41 a hole in the loomand loo roof tand a d stunned his daughter maloey Ma beland also struck hazel all have recovered from the effects of f the shock most mosta a of our citizens are taking out citizenship papers and are forming a land company under mexican law and the present colonization company any will deed the ithe pacheco purchase to the new company and a notice to this effect will soon reprinted be printed in the des eret news allowing all parties intel ested in property here ninety days to make gcoy their claims and pay up back taxes or forfeit their claims entirely those who were owing the original pacheco for old account ac counti will either pay up or lose their pac pasture sture shares that were held as security for we the de debts lits I 1 wi we are doing quite a lot ot of public work and especially on the school house both saw mills are shut do down on account of excessive ex rain 0 strike of lumber h a lers is ended endea a and id in the future a great deal of the lumber will be hauled out on trucks truck sHard hard times did not teach reach our colonies as did the U S and we still have room for afew a few more good settlers our prospects for crops chops are excellent and we are much encouraged we can sell our beef cattle yearnings yearlings year lings lo 10 illy find and the slump in the cattle market does docs not net seriously affect Vs us dairying began in malthis may this year instead of july as it usually does J H MARTINEAU |
