Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-02-08

and after being tossed ' to and fro five days and nights in go- q ing 200 miles, exposed to sun and salt 8 water, we landed in said bay. Y
 We'll, to say we were all disappolnt- ed with the appearance of the "clty oy , the sea" would be putting It mildly { judging from the actions of majority of the party. The men cursed and the women cried. The bay IS sur rounded with high mountains of soild rock The city is constructed O, shanties made of poles, brush ana muo and covered with earth and rough stone building about 18x2OO feet and 10 feet in height, forming square sur
 rounding an open court. The bulid- ing has openings, but no doors or Win dows. The surface of the land sur
 rounding the town Is covered Wlth powders of all sizes.
 This is where the miniature paper
 is printed (the Credit Foncler oi
 Sinaloa) that never misrepresents,
 which is literally true, the fact being |
 that it never has represented anythlhg
 in it's true light, but instead suppress
 es what the editor believes to be de.
 trimental to the manipulation of
 affairs among the colonists, but allow
 ing each one who has become cranky
 in regard to cooperation of the much
 abused laboring men to go on ms own
 cognition and pay dearly Tor his or
 her experience.
 At this "city by the sea" they have
 five or six men and two women who have no employment except to pc pare black-eyed beans and cornmeal for mastication, and to bring water ln canoe from Los Copaso Island distant seven miles, where they procure It by scooping holes in the sands, when the l water seeps in. The men then carry it in ten gallon kegs on a stretcher
 from a quarter to half mile to where I their canoe is moored.
 Having finished transferring our e freight from the schooner Luclfer to Il to the wharf, we bid the co-operators n at the bay adieu, and, with our goods c on our wagons, we wended our way Il over level country, barren of grass e but covered with scrubby mesquite n trees, thorny brush and variety ol q the cactus, thirty-five miles, when we 'r arrived at La Logia, which means Tn ,s Spanish "the place" where we founo s, about no colonists, mostly old men y. women and children, occupying diiap ts dated tents and shanties, on tarn h of 400 acres, about fifty acres of th' ts upland being cleared. Of this tarn le about 100 acres are very fertile, bu 4n being subject to overflow twice yea n- renders it unfit for agriculture.
 Tn The number of cOlonists on thu
 farm during the two years Of occupanc
 has varied. Having no system of lrr all gation and short rainy season, als ,o being without means, with mor ad gage of $500 at 8 per cent sem no annual interest, these people labor l oi vain. During the past season tn III colonists have not been able to hu' i'll band a crop of any consequence. The ;d- will not be guided by the natives aIt to time for planting and the kind h,, seed to use. Instead of using accl s r;s mated seed they plant Northern see all and plant it out of season, and tf ,na insects, drought and floods have 8 d;. ways appeared in time to relieve tf m ire people of harvesting crop. Cons ro- QuenllN IIt0 pOOI COlOhioAo "AiO "AS H oer in possession of a sufficient number ',a- adobe dollars to enable them to hust e around among the Mexicans in que
 of food are doomed to dine at the pu
 lie kitchen, where they are furnish'
 a regular diet of black-eyed beans al hs corn bread, made by mixing coar ate meal with black molasses, then bake lon and often not well done.
 'er- They have twelve teams, havll alo very little for susterance except s' : F.. ghum stalks; consequently they and in a very emaciated condition. New cry theless, they as well as the blp ah' colonist must at 6 g. m. answer to the' sonorous blast from horn of Me me can bovine and go to the field to gen Dor. or rather kill time, until 10 a. T
 m when another blast gives them not ndl- to retire to the shade to partake ease beans and corn bread. At l p. The they are ushered out by anotl oid' blast and at p. m. Sith up the struggle and further r ght- ceed to annihilate time by dream oral- of bicycle railways inclosed on es ency side with banana and orange trt the also the great cooperative city by DIS: sea.
 of Several Sundays since the chief ap- ractors and scribes called a meeti the in which they figured the average I
 ductiou for each days labor to be
 Therefore no member should draw
 the commissary to exceed that amou the Often there was nothing to draw. the colonists have become selfish, moro 'n of ever anxious. often hungry, and ms re- without clothing, and 1t IS very Ill as agreeable to live among them. this resident directors were appointed shall the founder, 4. K. Owen, and can very he displaced by the members, col lted; quently they rule as Czar, and h hlled things pretty much their own may handling what money there may liged rendering no account of the inv will ment, living on white bread and lal mt Of ing not. The writer and family W le ot with them four months, and duI 1t of that time drew from the commiss tain $l9 worth of provisions, everything Il do ing rated at % per pound, the c due pany now owing us for labor $l56,
 which we dare any one to offer us oglst. on the dollar.
 We took clothing and housekeeE
 utensils sufficient for two years o' yalids patton, but when the colonists look stand up and say that the credit fitting the company have not the value away cent on the dollar, and becoming ysieal satisfied of the hopelessness as 10 which success of Owens plans, also disg acity; ed at the mismanagement of afiail +rash1 meh1 the colonists, we sold all our eff filiip and on the 3lst of October sta h mis- with team and wagon, accompal Hos by W. P. Friend and family, the p as stbe tbe numbering fifteen, for Gods coul ,erma. and civilization, coming through ation. State of Sonora 600 miles, bal .laiEla' atina country, destitute of grass and W
 h' for long intervals.