Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-06-06

REGIONS OF CHIHUAHUA.
Prospects Of the Latter.day Saints
In Mexico.
hon. J. W. Y0USG's GREAT ENTER.
PRISE.
An Industrious People In n Land Smil.
Ing ou Every Hand With H.
Abundance Of Natural
Resources.


E;iiior Dcscrot NoicG
From the solicltudc fclt by the Lat.
tcr.day Saints, Of Mexico, In whatever
concerns thor co.laborcra In Utah, one
may infer that brief sketch Of the
surroundings aud prospects Of the
pooplc here will not be withou, Interest
10 many Of your readers. Though
working, here as there, for the samv
end, they are surrounded by circum.
stances rs different almost as night
from day. Hardly thing here re-
minds one II his Utah home except
the faces OF the friends Of former days.
Instead Of tho prevailing mountain.
ous region indented with valleys, we
have here long stretches Of level
gras.y plain over which one sees scat.
tcrud hero and there, potion Of
mountain chain, or string Of strag.
Cling hills. Tho soil isunu suAlly deep
aud rich with occasionally stretches
Of sand; the hills are mostly lava rock
aud limestone formation, very appro-
pflatcly named by tho Mexlcans,
"malpais,D lbad countryh bearing
little vegetation except where lndonled
wales are covered with grass.
Though water Ia much needed at
present, tho Casas Graudcs river, on
whose banks tho Lattcr.day Saints
have, In the main, started their settle.
fuents, Will, In few years, be con.
trOllcd 40 A. 10 furnish water for the
Irrigation Of vast area Of country.
Yet, there are now nj Casas Gmndcs
and Dlas nover.faillng springs Ia
which tho people are already obtaining
shares enough for mOdUratc water
supply during the dry season. Tbs
settlements OF Juarcz. nj pal0maH aud
on the B0ca Grnndo, may be well sup
Piled with water the year round.
hut QUO OF the most marked points
Of difference between Utah and Mexico
l. ia climate. Instead Of the regulation
four seasons, We have only two, which
may be appropriately called "w-p and
''dry." Whom, however, We slt In the
comfortable evening shade, with the
clear blue above, without iicck Of
snow IN sight, and road u the billiards
aud driving snow with which cur
friends In the north are prosecuted, we
are m-a.uFably resigned Ia the 10. OF
the political seasons. The wet weather
commences about the middle Of July
and lasts I'LL tho middle Of
October. During this time each morn.
Ing II usually clear, while tho after.
noon brings on dronching rains,orm.
Occasionally, however, the sky II
overcast for days al time aud the rain
pJurs down In torrents. In the rainy
season the grass on tho plains aud
wherever II eau get stand ON the
hills, springs up In all ita glory, spread.
Ing mantle of venture the whole
country over. one or other Of the tivo
kinds ofgrass indigenous hero II green
the year through, 10 that ono does not
need 10 keep cattle up NJ
any time OF the year. From
IN. middle Of October there are
infrtquent rain,toFms I'LL January,
when, N there II any snow nj all, n
slight fall relieves the monotony Of
warm weather aud reminds tho Uton.
ian OF q March buster. IL u an cr-
coptional season that any snow falls,
bu, We had three days winter last
January. From February I'LL III. mid
die Of July tho old resident expects
very lltfls rain, and the hottest weather
Of the year. Ons would think that
with 40 little cold weather there must
follow Intense summer heat. Hut such
il not the ease, for when the sun pouru
down It's seyerrst rays, the atmosphere
Il Yet cool; aud tho nights following
are 10 much 10 as ~ require warm,
thick clothing for comfort.
Tn. I.atter.day Saints hAvea con.
siderable fo0lhold In The northern part
Of the stats OF chihuahua, (pro.
nounced rheowahwahl and their post
ton Il becoming stronger every day.
Instead of planting Ia tho regular line
north a. nj inst, they have now taken
Ia plittinQ IN their first crops In the
early winter when the Mexlcans allow
the water 10 40 10 WASTE then by the
III Of June, harvest Is on, and the soil
4, prepared for another crop, Gem
mencIng with the ralny season which
IA harlly over before tho second crop
can 10 harvested.
but the great signal Of prosperity 10
the IiAtter.day Saints, In Mexico, at
present, IL tue fact that Hon, John
w. Young has IN hand tho building
Of a railroad through the heart 81 their
country, connecting them with the vast
roal fields and the Pacific coast, ON the
west, and with the Mexican Central
Railway system on tho east
IL may he well TO give Just here some
Idea Of the relative positions OF the
,et,lcmenta OF the Enormous" In this
touutry, aud 10 sketch the route Of
Mr.. Youpg's projected railway. From
peminn, New Mexico, the initial
paint of the road, TO tho line between
The United Slatea and Mexico, IL
lhlrty.tive miles, and four and half
mIlei south Of the line Is Las Palomas,
Tho inst station In Mexico, This ret.
ilement " In the Mexican free zone"
and has the location aud facilities Tor
an important commercial anu manu-
acluring town, the custom house nav
log bsen ordered 10 this paint from La
Ascension, ~ soon % the railroad COM
nences. II II twelve miles Directly
Ruth OF Palomas to the Casas Granies
liver, where the track takes q bend,
blowing up that stream through The
n0ca Granie tract of land, forty miles
IN length, belonging 10 Hon. John
w. Young, 10 Diaz, the most
Important settlement Of tho Lat
leT.day Saints In Mexlci. On the
Boca Grande tract, Mr., fouug iutenis
% establish three or four settlements.
From Palomas 10 Dlaz IN a distance OF
iixty.hve miles, almost directly SOUTH
Leaving Diaz, the railroad VIII con'
llnue south past La Ascension. hve