El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-17
MARVELLOUS GROWTH

OF The Casas 6rdndes Country
Since The ApaChes Were Driven
Out In I88O.-MuCh Praise Due
The Corralitos Company And
The Sierra Madre Railroad.
Special correspondence of the HERALD.
CASAS GRANDEs, May 14.---As stat
ed in my last article, the precarious
conditions of this section of the state
of chihuahua commenced to change
for the better with the fatherly ad-
ministration of the Hon. General Luis
Terrazss during his last term of gov
ernor of the state, but nevertheless
the Apache Indians continued their
work of devastation for some time,
owing to the imposssibility on
the part of the uthorities of proper
ly attending by themselves the
disastrous Indian war, when the whole
country had just emerged from the
horrors of internal revolutions that
lasted for so many years as every body
knows, this very circumstance pre-
venting the federal government from
helping the state to exterminate its
eternal foe.
Finally the long looked for day came,
and through the splendid triumph at
tanned by the state forces over the
chieftsin Victoria at Tres Castillos
mountains in the fall of 1880, and the
capture of the other ferociOus leader,
Geronimo, by the American forces Ia
ter on. the country entered at once into
an era of progress and prosperity.
Agriculture, mining, cattle-ra1slng,
commerce, and every branch of bust
ness took possession of what were the
heunts Of the Apache Indians. Soon
e. ho Of
wilderness by the Mormons increased
our population aud trade. These in
dustrious and sober people have con-
tributed in a very large degree to the
development, material as we'll as other.
wise, of Casas Grandes.
Another factor, but much stronger
than the Mormon people, has been the
owning of the Corralitos property by
an American company, named the Cor
ralltos Company. Ever since the.pres-
ent general manager, Britton Davis,
prosperity set 10 in the whole district
of GaleaEs. Hundreds upon hundreds
of men find daily and remunerative &C.
cupation in Corralitos, as miners,
teamsters, wood cutters, shoemakers.
school teachers, doctors. engineers,
hood keepers, etc. etc. Corralitos has
always something to do for all kinds of
men, providing they are willing to
work.
The state of chihuahua in general,
and Casss Grsndes in particular,
cere thanks to Britton Davis for the
immense benefits he has brought to US.
1, for my part, acknowledge With graft
tudes owing to MIR. Davis how to earn
by work my childreu's bread, and L do
thank him. A good many little fam
lilies that boast of plen tifulness owe to
Mr.. Davis's untiring energy and enter
prise their existence. But for him the
thick forests of the "Escondida, :"
would remain today in the virgin state
he found them in when he came to
Corralitos. The pay rolls of the Cor
ralltos company aggregating good
many thousar DIS of dollars month, are
q blessing to Casas Grandes.
just think of this: UP to 1882 the
whole district of Gslesna paid to the
state revenues the scant sum of $4,000
year, Casas Grandes, the leading
town of the district financially, paying
about one fourth of that amount. Last
year Casas Grandes paid to the state
revenues 1874, 126.42, the other towns
producing in proportion from $25OO to
$4,000.
We de not have to pay the enor-
nous prices for all kinds of goods l
spoke of in my last letter, and the
never enough blessed r. g., S. NJ. &
Pacific railroad places us in close
touch with every center of commerce
of the civilized world.
With the referred to elements and
the progressive. sober and honorable
administration of Governor Ahumada.
the State of chihuahua, in general.
and Casas-Grandes in particular, are
bound to meet and obtain the most
brilliant future. We certainly lack
capital to develop the immense re-
sources of all kinds that prodigal ma
ture has bestowed upon this land, but
do not entertain the least doubt but
what capital will come abundantly
when those resources become known to
men of money and enterprise.
For why should it not be so? Casas
Grandes has abundant facilities for the
establishment of all kinds of indus
tries; it affords immense water power
to set in motion any kind of machinery,
its close by mountains contain all kinds
of wood for timber, lumber and fuel,
all kinds of minerals, all kinds of game
1t has an immense area of arabic land
streams of pure water, it has the
healthiest and most. vigor giving eli
mate of the world: it has every othe
necessary thing to make it grand and
prosperous.