Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-02

fuitlands In northern Chihuahua than
those cultivated by our people at luarez
but the facilities for farming are very
limited, as the water is scarce. The
stock range IS fairly good. the COLONY
purchase consists OF about 5000 acre. OF
land. lying in the shape oi Ratchet and
ON both sides Of the Peadres Verdcg.
the feed on ut least q part OF this tact
is good all the year around
Juarez contains @ fine gf,st mill stu.
ated on the river Immediately east Of
the settlement. 10 is owned by Patriarch
VIM X r. Siowcll. late OF Ogden.
Utah, and famous from his extraordinary
experience 10 connection with the Echo
Canyon war 10 1857 S. There is also
a cooperative store doing good BUSH.
ness, q ianncry q clnncry. q harness
add saddle shop. two shoe shops. "a
saw mil Situated is miles up in the
mouniaintl including a planning mil,
shiuglc mills, picket and llih mills. etc,
and four cheese factories Most Of these
iudustfie are cooperative.
The Inhabitants Of Colonia luarcl are,
generally speaking, q good. industrious
and united people, exemplary in their
habits and modes OF living. they are aii
members of the Church. the meetings
are well attended, not an oath or cS.
precision OF profanity has been heard on
the streets by even some of the oldest
inhabitants, and there arc only three
young men In the town who are known
20 use tobacco in any shape or form,
In February 1909, there were 81 fame
lilies or 67i souls in the colony. George
W. Scvey, formerly Of panguitch. Titan.
Is the present Bishop; bis cnunscIor are
Miles J.. Romney and Ernest l. TAYLOR.
Elder Joseph c. Bentley is ward clerk.
Apostle George Tcasdac, the prpsi
dent OF the Mexican Mission, resides 10
luarcH. also his Counscl0r Alexander
h. Macdonald and Henry EyrIng. Elder
Tcasdalc occupies the house which was
built for the late Apostle Eustug SulW.
but which he never occupied a. DE
passed away from this sphere % action
Just as u was being completed ELDER
Tclsdalc keeps very full and complete
private journal; aud o. the public rec.
ords OF the Mexican Mission have been
Kept very impcflJctly indeed land boo
some Of the settlements no records TO
speak Of have been kept at alp, the his.
tonans in compiling the history OF the
mission will have 10 depend TO a very
great extent upon the information which
Elder Tclsda.c may permit them to
Gull from his private writings.
Colonia luarcz IS a very desirable
place to live IN, though a better location
could have been preferred; but owing
10 the scarcity Of water and the limited
amount of farming land along the river,
Il can not grow to q place Of any great
importance. according to prescn, pros.
poets,
When the colony was FIRST founded In
1880, the townsitc was surveyed in the
open valley about ? miles east Of the
present location, but it was soon dis
covered that the survey had been made
outside Of the purchase limits and on
the San Diego ranch; and thus our
people were forced TO move up onto
their present location. IN the narrow
canyonlikc valley, IN which the present
town nestlcs between the Hllls.
luarey Is 10 miles southwest Of Casas
Gfandes. 10 miles from Colon1 DuOlln,
n miles southwest Of Colonia Diaz, i6i
miles southwest Of DemIng, y. NJ, and
i1o miles west southwest OF Gallego,
the nearest accessible station ON the
Mexican Central railway. From here ]
20 to Pacheco. In the heart OF the Sierra
Madras. ANDREW lrSsoN.