Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1894-08-04
THE GLAMOR GONE.
Topolobampo, According to q Return
ed Settler.

Topolobampo, Mexico, purports to be
somewhat on the plan Of. Bellamy's
Looking Backward" IL cooperation
and community life does not work any
better a hundred years hence than it
does IN this nineteenth cent ury so full
of human nature, it is very doubtful if
Bellamy's farce will be realized.
At Nogales CITIZEN men met lady,
Mrs. Garrison, returning from Topolo-
bampo. She was d Pennsylvania,
residing near Pittsburg. She was ac-
companied to Nogsles by her sister and
her sisters two children, who went on
ahead.
Mrs. Garrison was much relieved to
have ESCAPED" from the colony, and
expressed great pleasure at being back
again. She says the colony is hardly at
all as it is redresented to be. The fruits
promised comprised few dates brought
in by Mexicans and some melons. OF
fish and shell oysters they had none,
practically, except few turtles, from
which soup was made. The board in
the public kitchen, where the single
men get their meals, consists Of onions,
beets, cabbage, carrots and potatoes,
breakfast, dinner andsupper. OF meat
they had none while Mrs. Garrison was
there. The coffee she laughed over,
saying that she never drank it herself,
though she helped make 1t in the public
Kitchen, as part of her cooking duties.
1t is made of corn meal, Drowned, from
which coffee" is made in the usual
manner. This is served three times a
day.
The women in the colony have their
duties laid out, some cooking, some
washing, some sewing, all in the regula.
tion committee fashion. With the men
it is the same. Good carpenters and
artisans are put at work carrying adobss
and like menial labor.
The houses are Of adobe, of Indian
mats and tents.
Mrs. Garrison thinks there are about
$50 people in the colony at present,
though far more have come and gone.
1t is said total of thousand people
have gone down there from the United
States. At Nogales many of the prspos-
ed settlers have been warned that Top
lobsmpo is no paradise, and some have
needed. notable instance is q party
from Kansas, who came as far as Noga
les year or two ago, with horses, farm
implements and a general farming out
6t. The Mexican duties and warning
of the Nogales people deferred them
from continuing. Some stayed and
some went to Washington state. Mrs.
Garrison was among those lately warn
ed, but refused to believe it after the
glowing stories told thereof in the east.
One month was enough to satisfy her.
self and friends, and they bought
wagon and travelled overland to Quay
mas, not even waiting for the steamer.
Mrs. Garrison said that the promoter
of the scheme. whose name is Knapp,
gets s300s family for all immigrants
brought to the country, from the Mexi-
can government, and that she did not
intend to les Mr.. Knapp profit on her
arrival there.
Knapp she thinks is now England,
trying to get more immigrants. The
colony has been in existence for seven
and half years, but still they arrive
and depart. Mrs. Garrison will stop
any more departures from the Topolo-
bampo club at Pittsburg-for they have
througout the country bureaus for
the promotion of immigration.