Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-24
POSSIBLY A TRAGEDY.

colonia chulchupe, May IL, 1898


co,onia chuichupe, May 70, 1898.
To the Editor:
This little settlement is just no"
stirred up by the disappearance Oh
prospector, who came here not lohs
gince from California and has peeh
prospecting for mineral in the Guy
mona country, about days journey
southwest of here. on Tuesday morn
Ing. the 10th inst, he went out huht-
ing, leaving his companions cainpeu
near this place, and has not been seen
since. Yesterday some of our people
went out to find him, but did not; Ihey
tracked him several miles until ne Gu
tered Black canyon, and there lpst u.'
trace of him. Some of our poys sly
they found trails of two horsei1eh WIZ '
had apparently ioiloWsu NM ,i,,
whether he has been Killed or siihpiy
Inst in the mountains we cannot yer
ielI Today every available man anu
horse in the place have gone TO Ilnu
him If possihle. This town being the
last Quitting place for prospeotorS'
such people continually go ana come
LAST evening two parties OF pruspec-
,o,, came in from the Guynopa mining
fields who had been burnt out In camp
MAY SIN losing all but what they STOOD
nm in. except very little ilour anu
hacon' one party--Dotson's -lost apout
1000 cartridges, besides giant poW~tltI'
in addition to all bedding. cIgthlllb'
etc. The other party, led by Mr. Ihoill'
came from Colorado and had n lalse
and valuable outfit, not only OF pro-
Visions, clothing and other necessarleS'
mi n valuable nssaying outht ana eN-
peneiye surveying instruments an OF
which were destroyed. Mr. Thorn came
here In the interest of Colorado caplttu-
lsts, prepared to purchase Nihua p's
claims. Very rich ore nssayihs US hl7n
ns 81 COO n ton has been found only
few miles from here, on the western
slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains
hut the average of the mines would not
exceed probably $1,000 or Sl,2O0 per Ton
silver and gold ,-,.
Chu-i-chu-pe, the native name OF inns
valley, II IL may be so termed Is the
extreme southerly settlement OF the
Mormons in Mexico, being about 10 or
20 miles southwest Of Cnlonia JuareZ:
Longitude about los degrees west OF
Greenwich. latitude 20 degrees. ~ min
utes, 80 seconds, and elevation, above
the sea. of about 1900 feet. This aiti,
tude Is as indicated by first class ana
very sensitive barometer, and is the
average of several readings of the
instrument. As the pressure of the at
mosphere is constantly changing. 50
does the reading of n barometer; but In
becoming familiar with the proper cor
rection to be made for various condi-
lions OF the atmosphere. we arrive at
n very exact estimate of altitude. Be
fore / leave here I expect to make at
least fifty observations and will be able
to give the attitudes correctly of TINS
place. Colonia Garcia, 81 miles north.
and of Colonia Pacheco,S miles north of
Garcia.
Chuichupe is very desirable place
for settlement for those who wish to
make homes, especially for those With
out much means.
No big wood plles FOR winter are
needed, as load Of wood can be got
any day In less than a mile distance.
Cattle run out all winter on abundant
grass. Land Is fertile ard cheap, be-
Ing ait present only So a hektare (about
2ia acres) In United states money or
about $40 Mexican; town lots, about
IL acres, $40 Mexican money. No IT.
rlgatfon IL required for farm crops,
rain falling In abundance during the
summer. Corn, potatoes, garden vege-
tables, etc, yield wen, especially cab
bage, rutabagas. beets and similar
vegetables: and oats are phenomenal
whole fields standing high az tall
mans head and shoulders, and heavily
headed. / think such fruit as apples
res, etc, will do extremely well. miss
ing the early frosts which sometimes
kill the fruit In the lower valleys. The
climate il much like that of northern
Utah, except that the low latitude
20 degrees. 81 minutes. obviates the cold
of the north. while the high altltud,
makes the geAther in summer moi
nearly so warm as in SAT- Lake City.
The Chuichupe purchase consists oil
a tract 5000 muters square (somethinr
over nine square miles, the title fol
which was lately obtained in the City
of Mexico by President a. w. WINS
and is now being subdlvlded by you
correspondent. After many years eX,
pericnce M pioneer | can conscien,
tlously recommend this as very de
sirablc place for men who are willing
MS pioneers, to put up with the dlsad
vantages incident to a new country
but which are nothing. compared witt
THOSE of southern Utah or Bear Lake
But all who think of changing n HON,
should first examine for themselvei
tine place to which thoy think of going
as what suits one person may not sui
another. J. IL. MARTINEAU.
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