Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-08-04
UTAH EXPEDITION
HELD UP IN MEXICO
Unable to Proceed Until a Bond Has Been
Giyen-PrOi. Cuff Writes Interestingly
of the Work Thus Far Done.

They wanted 90 call the col0ula Feno.
chic. but / objected, and told them IL
they would name &c after my state I
would Dee sufficiently hOu0rei So o.
was called OaEaou"
Leaving Nogalgs our road came
through hills for nine miles when ws
reached the river or creek Santa Cruz
There are two valleys 0r river bottoms
which range lu width from 0ue-half
mile to TWO miles that particularly at
tragteI our attention The santa Cruz
and the BatcpitO. The former runs
north across the line and enters tho
ella, The latter runs south from the
line ana cmpues into the EaUsui. ANA
$50 into The Naqul river These We're
interesting because of the apparent
fertility OF the soil and the ease with
which the thousands of acres they COM
tain might be brought under cuIuva-
tiou While just now before the rainy
season ls fully on there ls not suf-
hc.eDt water for irrigation. yet with a
proper system of reservoirs which could
Doe easily constructed am abundance
would Boz obtained The fertility OF
soil iu Mexico may Doe judged by the
size of the mesGuits as in Utah we
judge by the size of the sage brush.
The mosQuit is ordinarily q small tree
or large bush, but here 10 grows Co the
size of au oak from o. foot % two feet
iu diameter
Up 'le Santa cruz wo occasionally
passed cattle ranches u4t little of the
soil is under cultivation except at the
towns of beylsaueru and Santa Cruz.
the former containing about q hundred
inhabitants the latter three hundred
At DnyisJlarU WD had 60 report
90 the guards whose duty 10 ia
tp See that uu smuggling ia
carried ON. AS they have considerable
option. ana what they don't have they
take when they fec. IIka 10 travellers
are sometimes put t0 great Iuc0nvenI-
cuCe. When We came out we met a
couple 0i yuurg men from CUIJu8
Dublan frUahters who Wen. detained
by the guards l7 something was wrong
with their papers. They had been all
ready iU custody for o. days. and their
goods teams and everything conGsclt-
cd temporarily pending au iuyestiga-
t0u. ] am informed also that 900 Aeaan-
Sion some TWO years ago "a man was enc
gagged tU freight goods lHr ID NeEC8u
merchant on the road ha was met by
guards. DIS goods 0yerhaJ.ei. and find
ing some packages not billed his whole
load. team. wagon and IIi were cone
hscatad and Doe put into prison. though
it was plainly shown that Doe had no
connection with the goods except as
fre.shter He was confined eight
months. when be was tried found lnu0-
cent and released. but 30 was eighteen
months before his team was returned.
and then in a lgded condition. as the
guards had worked 10 AN the time.
When first arrested the man was told
tnat Doe could go FREQ FOR two hundred
dollars but Doe absolutely refused tU pay
% cent While n iau his fell0W-p
ers broke out one night but Dee refused
tu go though he could easily have es-
capped
our letter from General Fenochla
proved "A good passport and without
trouble We We're allowed t1 go on The
head guard was not at all good ulturel
about 10, and was going GO retain my
letter. hut / told him through the inter-
prefer that as ! might need DC again
would take No. We filed our canteeus
DO a well 0f good water thanked the
ady az the houee and passed on. The
houses are IU built uf ad0b.es. one
story with mud roofs one 0r TWO have
lumber floors but most of them have
ho ground Kept clean and hard. how
.Ner hy frequent srrinkIUg and sweep
me- Many Iittla children We're playing
% the streets and I remarked how wen
behaved and u1Iif. they We're In fact
U far as have seen the Mexican
h.'drau and young people set
rood example 90 our own.
3D. CUFF JR.