Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-07-29

ihlrlhE Nhltfs hOtu Tor cuuFun ,tluI
and irrigation, weil.Glled barns an
corn cribs, and thriving vineyards
aud orchards. In the hackgrOunu
well.cultlvated fields stretch far out
over the landscape, In most graceful
contrast TO the tiresome mesquite an
which tut a short time since
covered the meesn. In place Of the
barren, treeless plalus, are now seen
thousands Of acres under cultivation,
hundreds Of comfortable homes and a
few school.houses. The Mofmons are
doing Mt Dlnt, what they accomplish.
ed at Salt Lake, transferring the will.
derness into a garden.
"rhey have graded seventy miles Of
railroad, which IL now ready for tho
titz,and on the iirst day VI July were to
begin iifty.mile section VI the road
from Deming, New Mexico, which
will pass through a country OF rich
aud varied resources. From Drmiug
this road Will run south to the Casas
Graudes river, crossing the Mexican
liue, thirty.flvc miles from Doming.
The road viii then follow the Casa.
Grandes valley west through the Bpra
Grand track of forty miles " fertile
soil.D
10 PLANT FOUR COLOMBO.
Here John w. Young, sou Of the
Mormon leader who founded Utah,
will plant four colonies. The most im-
portAut VI these will DO at Dlaz, stu.
nted In vast plain of rich, deep soil,
waterci by the Casa- Grandes rivorRnd
several large springs rising Va the hills
10 the west. This plain Is especially
Adapted TO growing grain and fruit and
raising cattle, Water rights bring So
to water twenty acrcs " land, AMI real
estate now funyvs frlm my cents 81
50 per acre. south Of DiaS the road
viii pass through county VI deep
alluvlal soil, which cannot be- sur
passcI even by the famous valley N
the Nile. The concession covered
. 500,001 acres Of land, all Of which
has passed under Mormon con.
troll. To encourage settlements
along Us frontier Mexico has
set oil n strip " country called the
"ffoe zone" Anything manufactured
therein may he Imported into Mexico
free, and anything bonded through the
United States Tor three Der cent. " the
regular Mexican duty. The mefcau-
tile aud manufacturing value u thrrc
privileges arr ahundantiy appreciated
aud viii be made the most of by the
coloulsts.
MINERAL RICHES.
Just south u DiaL are many Old
abandoned Mexican mines, nllui which
are included In tho concession. Low
grade ores In great quantity are piled
up on tho dumps NJ thus deserted
mines, and there 10 abundance u high-
grade ore Ia the old WORKING. 10 a.
snii that "an exact calculation has
demonstrated that one uf the old Cor.
plitos mine In this district holds on
II. dumps over l,O1O,0O0 tons Of low
grade ore, running IN silver from fifteen
10 tity-clght aud some NJ II as high ~
oighty.siN ounces per ton, bcsiies lead
In varying proportions" This can al
bo utilized now under new milling
processes, and the ground all through
the mining district IA honoycombci
with old abandoned mines holding
dumps full Of this class Of ores.
ANoLD CIVILIZATION.
Corralitos h twenty-sovcn miles
south Of Diaz. Durham, another oi
the Mormon settlements, Is twenty-five
miles farther south, Ia the midst " the
former farms Of the ancient inhaLit.
ants, and i've miles north oi the old
Mexican city Of Casas Granies. The
Casas GrAndcs valley IL fcpleto with
relies Of a prehistoric civilization
which dwelt along the streams u
Mexico, Arizona aud New Mexico,
aud " which the ilrst modern records
date from the journeys Of Cnbcsca
de Nacn In 1910. Even at that date
tho Indians then pcopling the val.
leyn had no knowledge Of the history
or origin Of the people who had built
the huge CRsas Grande-, the exterior
walls OF some OF which then extended
north and south i20 feet, nnd from
east 10 west 200. About those ruins
are found 10 this day stone hammers
and axes, bone avis and other nipple.
ments, traces 81 irrigatlng canals,
broken pottery and earthgn lan. Vain
10 question "Who were the people who
built the Imposing structures, dug the
immense canals, AMI redeemed from
the desert such vast stretches OF land
Did war, pcstllonce, famine or some
mighty CONFUSION Of nature destroy
them? Nothing is left To tell the story
OF their existence, their customs Or
their beliefs" But the MOImon-, In
industry and In the science OF agricul-
turu through means Of artificial irrlga.
ton, are their worthy succo ssors.
PREHISTORIC PEOPLE.
And tho Book OF Mormon, which
they doyOutly believe 10 10 Inspired
truth, IL the only work which prctends
~ give any authentic Information OF
the prehistoric people Of this CONT.
mont. Whether II be true or false mat.
tiers not, NJ long as II 4. believed 10y the
MormOns, for II gives them mass OF
Information which they consider reli-
ablo,and which the ruins Of tho valleys
they settle serve but % the more firmly
establish, In that there IN no other
known record OF them. A correspond
unt OF tho Salt Lake HCrdid, speaking
u the Casas Grandes Valley OF Mex.
leo, says'
"rTnces arc yet 10 DO seen Whereabouts
Of the old reservoirs aud canals, prob
ably OF the old lolleo civilization. Over
against these WORTHLESS tho present gem
Grafton have there set themselves down
TO try the modern with the ancient
agriculture. II has been demonstrated
that cotton will DO well here, and two
crops q year VI farm products are conf
mon. Corn grows here to an .XtrAor.
binary height, man on horseback
being unable TO reach 10 the top OF
stalk OF corn as it'stRnds In tho Held"
TiIE NEW lgAlLllOAD.
III. taiirnnu uoW helnp GRADED will