The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-13

feature at Topolobampo, for the principle
of cooperation as exemplifed by the Credit
Eoncies company plan preclude TINS, ana
anyone contemplating going down 10
Pacific City to speculate IN town lots mad
better remain at home for they will be dis
appointed if they go.
THE TITLES TO THE LAND
remain with the company, but life leases
at a nominal figure are given to actual
settlers. All improvements made by resi-
dents will be paid for by the company at
any time citizen may wish to leave Inc
place, and no one can sell to any other but
the company, hence this city will be totally
unlike any other under the sun. no DOUBT.
There is no Injustice in this arrangement
to anyone and the result is anticipated 10
be system of perfect order in everything
from one end of the town to the other.
The Credit Foucier company is not TO be
considered as a communlstlc society, Out
strictly business organization, working on
the co-operatiye plan. There is great
difference between communism and CO.
operation, but some people are apt to con-
found one with the other. Then again this
colony Is not founded upon any system OF
religion, but on the reverse. religion cuts
no figure at all in their atfa1rs. Wnlle
PERSONS religious belief IS never cues
toned, or his family devotions lnterfered
have no place among this people, but are
totally ignored, forgotten one might e4-
press it, for no provision is made for them
in any way. 1t must not be thought Tor q
moment, though, that they are to be looked
upon as
AGNosTICs, INF1DELs, OR ATHEISTS,
or that sort of thing, but must simply be
taken at their word as being community
gathered together for the purpose OF hrst
solving the problem how to live properly In
this world, and after thatoto then consider
what is in store for them in future state
of existence. They believe in obsying the
command to multiply and replenlsh the
earth,' and redeem it, and are attending
strictly to business in carrying out the In
junction. The precept OF the Golden
Rulen is another of their fundamental
principles.
One strange thing to be seen IN S1naloa
and one not soou forgotten is the old
Indian bell ringer of Charay. Here are
three old bells which were brought from
Spain about three hundred years ago, or
supposed to have been, and which are sus-
| pended from a cross beam some SIX 1eet
clear of the ground. An old Indian reclines
beneath the bells, whose only occupation
in life is to get up each half hour and
strike the bells with club, and then at
once resume his old position on the ground.
This is kept up continually, and is accord
| ing to the story told there, to propitiate the
good spirits. These Indian poems are very
superstitous and into all Of their devotlons,
fireworks enter largely as predominating
feature, and often in the day time the dis
charge of rockets is INDUCED in as means
of
| CARRYING THEIR PRAYERS TO HEAVEN.
Much of their spare cash Is invested in
G,,o,, nc md
| is difficult matter to determine where
paganism leaves off and Christianity begins
| in their forms of worship. In all of theil
peculiar ceremonies however, they never
break through the rules Of propriety, but
always conduct themselves in a becoming
manner, never INDUCING in ghost dances OF
the like, but always keeping Themselves
under perfect control.
Topolobampo bay is magnificent sheet
of water, some fifty four square miles IL
extent, and giving twelve and one-hal1
square miles of anchorage for the largest
vessels. New YORK harbor has bu
thirteen square miles of good anchorage
and from this we may Judge OF the facili-
ties afforded at Topolobampo
The harbor is located 200 miles south o!
Guaymas, on the Gulf of California, and i
is 1900 miles south of San Francisco. Very
little is known about the bay, and ont
maps of the day. When General Gran
was President. however, he took specia
pains to post himself about this place, ant
even though the map-makers have ignored
it, yet the war department at Washington
knows all about it, and there it is marked a
NUMBER ONE SEAPORT.
Mr.. A. H. Owen, the PROTECTOR of tn
Sinaloa colony, at one time asked a promi
nent map maker why it was that Topolo
bampo harbor did not get the prominenc
on his maps that the place deserved. TIL
reply was that San Francisco would OF
iect. Mr.. Owen then said L shall have
make map for myself then? The answe
was, yes. w. A. MCKENZIE.
DR.. E, L. Coon treats successfully
paralysis, rheumatism, kidney and live
diseases, catarrh, and all diseases of tn
mucous membranes, diseases of the hear
and lungs.
Electrical and bath treatment are specis
features of DR.. Coon's treatment.
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