The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-15

| Among OJlef interesting COlOIlSUS are
young German baron and his wife, who
raise fat poultry on one of the company
ranches. They are in a better position to
enjoy life than most settlers, being in re
ceipt of monthly income from the old
country There is an English country gen
tleman. who, Disguised with the fall of
rents at home, sold his paternal estate and
came to make home in the new land. This
Britisher, whose fine stock has won many
prize at Islington, says, Il shall import
the best cattle and horses, and have the
very
BEST STOCK IN THE COUNTRY.
What's more, I'll have a colony of fine fell
lows out here. When you come to make
us visit you shall have the best of horses
to ride, the best of milk to drink, the best
| food to eat, and the best of company to en-
terrain you. The climate and soil are far
ahead of old England, and am awfully
glad came"
There are lords and counts and barons
and other titled persOnages from across the
| sea, and younger sOnsn of noble houses
by the score, many of them bowling swells
at home, who have settled down to business
with grim determination, and do not dis
| dain to blister their aristOcratic digitS in
| grubbing roots or digging for mineral
wealth. And truth compels me to add that
there are discouraged people here too
plenty of them, who invested their thous-
ands while the boom was high, and now see
no way of realizing an interest on their
capital or of getting it out again. There
are lonesome people, and homesick ones,
stranded here by business interests, who
have learned to hate the crude elements of
border life and to pine for the social pleas
ures of older communities. And there are
disappointed tillers of the soil, who sacri-
feed eastern homes to come here, impelled
by hopes that have not been realized.
You ask, what will settlers do with the
products of their industry: Can they ex-
port their surplus grains, hay, fruits and
vegetables to foreign markets, or to Mex
lean markets outside of Lower California
without payment of duties and with profit:
Not to mention exports to the nearby mar
kets of the United States, there is de-
mand, at high prices, for nearly everything
he can raise, in the Mexican cities south of
here-Guaymas, Mazatlan, San Bias, Man
camille and Acapulco-the ports of those
great states, Sonora, Sonaloa, JaliscO,
Colima and Guerrero. And here the Mex
lean tariff is of benefit to the settler by
shutting out competition from other cOun-
| tries. He can easily avail himself of these
markets by any of the four steamers that
run regularly around the peninsula and
| down the western coast of Mexico. Some
of them receive subsidies from the govern
/ L. "
demonstration that the government means
to favor the cOlonist by bringing to him all
her orders and taking away his produce.
AS to the all-important
QUESTION OF WATER SUPPLY,
without which the best of soil would be
valuless: The story that it seldom rains in
| Lower California and never thunders is a
myth l have known it to rain week at a
time, entirely out of what is considered the
rainy season and thunder showers are not
uncommon. The range of hills and noun
! tainS running down the peninsula and
rising into peaks 1000 and $1,000 feet high,
are natures store house for rain in sum-
mer and SHOWS in winter, from which the
adjacent table-lands and valleys can be
| beautifully supplied with water all the
year around. The hand of man is neces-
sary to utilize this great natural reservoir
to make it meet his domestic needs. From
ordinary wells, with wind mills, orchards
and gardens can be irrigated to a consider
able extent, and artesian water is obtained
at depth of from five to twenty feet In
most places the winter rains alone suffice
for one good crop, and with irrigation mir
acles have been performed.
| Those engaged in stock raising assert
that these ranges are far preferable to
those of Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and
| Montana, where billiards bring suffering
and death to the cattle and loss to the own
ers. In those northern localities yearly
increase of 65 per cent. is considered eX-
ceptionally good, while here 90per cent. in
crease is the average. Grass is plentiful,
the varieties being wild oats, wild clover,
ala IA and mountain bunch grass. Cattle
also feed and fatten upon many varieties
| of shrubs with which the foot hills abound.
! Here, as in all northern Mexico, the Gus
tomary plan for herding stock is to divide
| them into bands of five hundred to fifteen
hundred each, locating each band at well,
spring or running stream, and placing it
under the direct care of family who shall
reside at this center as part of his duty.
These bands have a reasonable range al
lowed them, an occasional change being
made.
The same advantages of climate, food and
water apply equally well to the rearing of
horses, mules. sheep and goats. The
horses raised here are noted for their en-
durance, and the sheep are said to produce
a wool of remarkable evenness, there being
no severe storms to iniure the fibre.
FANNIE B. WARD.