Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-21
MONTEZuMA LAND.
interesting Letter on Recent Events ia
Old Mexico.
CoLoSIA D1Az, Mexico,
L.. ufI Huuu

IOIOEIA blhAf hAtAltOt
Jan. 9th, 1893.
Editor DESERT NewG
The weather In these parts Il warn
and summor.llke aud all kinds Oi out
door work are going nheai fully as
well ne at any season Of the year. so
far as climate is concerned we have
plenty of It aud Of quality that is
not oa9lly cxcelled In any part OF the
world; but with some other things we
are not 30 well supplied.
Farming facilities are not numerous
In this part OF tho state aud our colo
nlsts have acquired but q very limited
portion OF thc litlle there is
AZ yet all the cllouioI are
drawing the great bulk Of their
bread supply from the MeXitan
farmer in tho neigHborhoId Of Casas
Graudps, anu OF cDursc are paying
such priceB rs thcy chD1'n 10 impose.
The outlook Tor ratsing o1g own bread
In suiilcient quantity Is not yet very
r1miaiug, tho main reason tor THIS
be ny d lack Of water for irrigation nt
the places where the colonies are
aiiuatei. several attempis have been
maize 10 purchase an inlcrvgt In the
lands aud WatcrRai Cans Gfanlc, with
% viuw to butturing the agricultural
condition OF thnse who desire 10 make
homes here. The colony II Dublsn
WAS founded ia that viclnity, aud
lands were cheap and owners desifous
OF selling, but owing 20 certain ndvCrsr
circumstances over which the pIOmU-
ters OF that enterprise had no control,
! the matter haa met with but Indifferent
success up 10 the present.
am fully convinced that the day *
| not fur distant when tho lasFe rvser.
voirs ia that vicinity viii bo udllasd,
anu ny the storage OF the high waters
| md the inauguTating Of u better sys
| tenn OF cultivation the producing chpa.
| b.li,ies OF that naturally fertile district
| will be multiplied many time., and
then, nud probably not until thcn, wili
the poor OF these colonies feel as
though their bread were secure.
On recent visit 10 tho city Of CHI
huahua had an opportunity OF con.
versing with number OF mining
men. and find that rs n ruic they aro
| doing well. One reason OF this l. that
| they mine considerable gold ~ well as
silver, and the Mexican laws being
liberal toward the miner, he feel, like
| he can get along here as well as Ia any
part oi the world.
The small rebellion OF the people Of
Tomadiu near Guerrero Ia the western
| Jaft Of the state eliminated about the
| l9lh Of November last; about hvo
hundred people were killed In
ull, OF these about threo.iourths
were soldeg the rest being tho resi-
dents, among whom were some women
ana children. Ii IL difficult 10 under.
stand the reason for this desperate re-
slstHnce ON the part OF the people TO
tho authority OF the government IL
In OF course claimed by many that II
was oppression on The part Of the
government; but IA everybody else
seems to get along vol with the OIL
cisls aud 10 do about ns they please,
II seems strange that one small COM
munity should be SO oppressed. The
most likely explanation Of the niiair
and one that Ia well authenticated by
people dwelling In the vicinity, IL
that 1t was PROMPTED by religious Oh.
thusiasm. a prophecies 10 sail 10 have
| spent some Time among the people
previous TO the outbreak anu worked
| them up W resist tuc koFcTnnltut.
While the affairs much 10 be lament
ed, yet II ia Difficult, to SEQ how the
government could have acted much
different tom what II did, anu any
other government would have done
about the same under like clrcum-
Btanoes. There was no alternative
either the government had to conquer
or back down. 1t is geuerally believed,
however, that the management
on the part Of the military
officials was bad, and that
a shor, siege insteni OF stormlng the
stronghold would have saved many
soldiers, AS well as some OF the rebels,
and would have been more creditable
all around.
IL 10 generally thought in these parts
that the supposed revolutionary move.
menta on the border along the lower
Rio Grande county are much exagger-
ated, and that Yankee newspaper re.
porters want no better subject for
sensation than the raiding Of few
discontentod individuals into Mexican
territory. More soon,
GEO. NJ. BROWN.