Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-07
NOTES BY THE WAYSlDG.
A Place Tor Homeseekers in a Favored
Locality.

Batepiti, Bavispi River, sonora, Mex.
Jan. 2S. 1888.
To the Editor:
In my letter from OaNaca l promised
to give your readers some information
about this place. When the river CI3a-
NispD leaves Oaxaca it runs north by
west some fifteen miles then turns
west through box canyon five miles:
then cuts into the end of u long valley,
some four or five miles wide; then en-
tens another canyon south by west.
making large bend, and in this bend
from the north down the valley comes
the Bateplta river, from which this
place takes its name. From here down
the two rivers make the Yaqui river.
This grant contains about 10000 acres
of land. Most of 1t is grazing land,
but there is some good farm land upon
II. but not 50 much as was said to be
by some that have visited It, our par
ty looked over the ground and leveled
the canals here again. We found that
1t would cost more than at first esti-
mated to get the water on the land.
1t is also said that the Bntepita goes
dry every year for about six weeks
and that the Bavlspl has been known
10 so dry once or twice. The land
near the small hills and the higher
Hats on which towns could be made are
covered with dense growth of timber,
good only for flrewood. 1t IL "A kind of
bastard locust, very hard and brash.
but makes very good fuel The climate
Is little warmer than Oaxaca. We
We're there In January. The days were
warm and delightful with very little
frost at night, but this is said TO be the
coolest winter nd
of fruit would do well here and possibly
the orange, but that is not certain.
rms place Is in Ii direct line forty
miles from the United States line: sew
enty-hve miles from Bisbee In Arizona;
thirty-tive miles from Frontiras in So
nora,and nifty miles from the town of
Bavispi, up the river. This valley was
visited by an earthquake in 1887, which
made the valley sink and has left n
mark all round the east and south OF
1t for miles. In some places the gap is
eight feet wide and the upper side from
six to fifteen feet higher, having per-
pendicular wall The same shake
threw down the church at Bavispi, fifty
miles south, up the river, and killed
some sixty persons The road from
Batepiti north into the United States
Is very good. We came up the river
and through the San Bernardino ranch
and over to Bisbee, then down the San
ituiu river ~ 81. DhNiu, settlement
OF Latter-day Saints. st. David is stu
ated on the San Pedro river. 20 miles
north of Tombstone and seven miles
southeast of Benson on the line of the
Bisbee and Nogales railroads, two lines
running parallel from Fairbanks to
Benson down the San Pedro river.
There are now about thirty families in
the place. They are scattered about
eight miles on the river. At the bottom
end of the valley is n fine fiat of about
loo acres, which IL to be the town
site. The land is all filed on and
some have their patents and are will
ling to sell to those Of n like faith. The
town is watered partly by canal and
partly by flowing wells, which are very
easy to make, as the formation is such
that in Il well Of $50 feet only about
30 or 40 feet of pipe is used. The wells
are made by the washing process and
are made in from to IL days. The
people here want about 80 or 40 more
families, and they invite inspection of
this place. Merchandise is very reason-
able here, while farm products of all
kinds bring a good price. Ba led hay,
when hauled twenty miles fetches $40
to s12 per ton; eggs 80 cents per dozen,
etc.
Any further information wanted
about the Batepit country can be had
by writin gto a. W. WINS, Junrez, or
to Elder l.. s. Hush, Payson. all under
the direction of A. w. WINS.
l.. S. II.