Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-30
THE GREAT WEST.
SPOEREM's LETTER OF INTEREST
 ING NEWS.
He Speaks Of the Great American Desert The ResistIess Tide of Yankee Enterprise and American
 Thrift----Othef
 Things.
Corr. Fl Paso Tribune.

D1d you, While Tn your schOol-DOy dayS | when boring over your old geography, | after reading your history lesson, and l getting filled up with the stories of the conquest of the dark and bloody grounds of Kentucky, the battles that General Jackson fought, defeating the Creeks and Seminole Indians, and the Black Hawk war, in Illinois, and the story of life on the frontiers, attempt to study closely the map of the Great Vest, and found the vast territory between the Missouri river and tine Rocky mountains all blank, and the legend, in great bold-faced type star ing you i'll the face:
 THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT!
 That has not been many years ago The resistless tide of Yankee enterprise and American thrift has since that time peopled the Great American Desert;' have commanded the great store houses of golden wealth held in the eternal fast ness of the Rocky mountains to be given up. The miners's cabin is now found in every glllch The beautiful valleys in the mountains, more lovely than the ''vale Of Cashmere is now filled with the thrifthy agricultu1ist Magnificent cities 1 now dot the plains, the valleys and the mountain sides like magic
 Ever since the war these plains were covered by the hostile savage and millions of Buffalo. Even the most far-seeing and enterprising citizen did not believe in the 1 possibility of such development in the 1 Great West within twenty five years Even with your practical wisdom had i had the good angels twenty-five years 1 ago visited you in your visions and un- rolled the scroll of the future glory and peaceful achievements of our Nation, | al |, 1 your sense of coming glory could hardly 1 be believed. You would have exclaimed, Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" Ii is my firm be i lief the next twenty-five years will see such developments in the Great West" 1 that the past twenty-five years progress will be dWarfed into insigniiica6ce, and will be greatly aided by the awakening 1 business now taking place in our sister | Republic. Her skies are soft and balmy, her winters storms are tempered by her southern attitudes, and the soft winds from the Pacific and from the Gulf of Mexico no country under the sun pos sesses a greater variety of climate and re- sources. From the broad table lands to the eastward of the great Sierra Madre i range, the backbone of the continent in ! Mexico, and through the vast mountain range III tine great states of Chihuahua
 and Sonora, all kinds of grains, vegeta-
 bles. grapes and fruits are produced in
 abundance without the aid of irrigation.
 Her plains are covered with range cattle,
 the mountain sides with fine pine timber in Chihuahua, while in the states of So
 nora and Sinaloa mahogany and other
 tropical woods grow in luxurious abund
 ance, while in the bowels of the earth un-
 told wealth of gold. silver, copper, lead.
 iron, etc, lie awaiting the enterprise and
 push of the Mexican and American Yan-
 kee to be brought forth for the uses, hap
 piness and civilization of human race. According to the latest census inform
 ation, Chihuahua Is the largest state ill the Mexican republic, but sparsely pop ulated; containing l4, 300 leagues and q
 population of 225,251. The next is So
 nora, containing II ,655 leagues and a pop ulation of 1l5,424; while Sinaloa contains
 5,950 leagues and q population of 209,9 9,918
 The water sheds off from every direction
 from the plains of Lake BustillOs. just
 north of the great mining camp of Cusi huirachic, the level of which is about 5 1000 feet above the sea. By examining the map of Chihuahua carefully you vii ? find this great table land extends iron ! Cuslhuirachic northWard over 300 mile.
 to Polomas at the northern line of tho state of Chihuahua, and 35 miles south O . Deming, New. Mexico, You will see nun l erous lakes along this distance. with ; r great many of the water courses runnins 5 north. falling into sevefai great fresh wit Q ter lakes. These table lands are dotted
 all over with isolated mounds, mountains 2 and in some parts amount to isolated
 mountain ranges, many of which havt Y been prospected and few but what shov 2 more or less mlneral| while in many con | siderable development work has beel
 done that proves them to be very rich t As at Coralitos and adjacent minin! ,. camps the face of the country Is wei e grassed with a luXuriant, nutritious grass 1 suitable for cattle, horses and sheep, witt r ample running water and good soil, gen t erally light, deep. sandy loam. that un V der the hands of an intelligent husband V man yields fine results. The streams an, $ lakes are filled with fish, while game Is t r. be found in the mountains Tn abundance r This country. about 300 miles long an, h from so to loo miles wide. as an agricul e tural horticultural and stock raising coun Y try cannot be surpassed Taking every e thing into consideration. climate. soil, etc 2 to day the native Mexican farmer in hi r primitive manner, makes living for him self and family tending little patch c
 corn and beans and herding his cattle l. He has no market, as the great civilizel > the railroads, have not approached t
 within one to two hundred miles of hi
 home.
 | The day of his deliverance is near a l. hand, as the Deming, Sierra Madre Sir y alba, an Pacific railroad will, 1t is care n fully predicted, within the next twelv It months. be running their trains froI
 Deming to Guerrero, and from Guerrer
 to Chihuahua, having secured all neces
 saTy financial aid.
 SPOEREM.