Show UNWILLING mexico aids her indians CIUDAD OBREGON SONORA MEXICO A long range plan to change warring yaqui indians into peaceful farmers is patiently being pursued by the mexican government regardless of widespread doubt and skepticism the yaqui is not willing to forget his persecutions by spanish conquerors or mexican agents he feels all the land rightfully belongs to him and thinks he has exchanged a blanket for a small handkerchief in accepting two and a half square miles of property for each of his nine pueblos and additional farming lands mexicans feel too much land has been given the indians and that the amount of money being spent on them is excessive the indians are not good farmers they say in the meantime the mexican government copying the united states indian service plans is constructing ting a huge canal to irrigate the yaqui land grants in an effort to convert the warriors into farmers no longer do the sweep out of their Baca tete mount mountains ains stronghold to burn trains butcher passengers and ranchers and ravage the countryside even so there is constant if slight fear of another yaqui outbreak while southern pacific of mexico trains now travel without soldiers two cavalry posts at esperanza and becam are ready to protect catiz citizens ens there is not a family in this area but has suffered ered at the hands of the yaqui L M byerly american farm machinery merchant explains this valley today is in exactly the same position arizona f found 0 nd itself in the says S sidney ey M morrison manager of the R richardson ch construction co w which ich opened the valleys vast irrigation system our valley has the yaqui arizona lad had the apache he continues there is the constant fear not only of another yaqui outbreak but of further expropriation of lands under the agrarian system some progress is being made among the yaqui in training them to become able farmers but it seems slow by american standards mexicans themselves feel their government has been wasteful in giving the yaqui tribe more than 12 million acres of land which extend to the gulf of california A large portion of this is irrigable and it is through this that the utah construction co has b been een building a new canal ov over e r 30 kilometers long eventually water will be fed into the canal system solely for yaqui indian use but the yaqui continues to call the mexican yori or enemy generally they dislike laws soldiers government agents ano an americans they rem remember ember the 1903 massacre of thousands of yaqui and the trainloads train loads who were shipped like slaves to work in yucatan |