Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-17
MORMON COLONIES.
Example Of What Intelligent Pluck
Can Accomplish in the Arid
Region.
5000 MORMON SETTLERS.

to the Mormon colonies in Mexico
from where he will visit the colonies
in Arizona and New Mexico. The trip
will take him about two months and
he has promised to write IN interest
ing letter later descriptive Of the Nor
mon settlements of Ramah in valencia
county, and Fruitland. San Juan coun-
ty. after his visit to these colonies.
The work of the Mormons in Mexico
was described in a New Mexican rep
r~esentative by DR.. Lambert. as follows:
The Mormons first entered Mexico
in the year 1885. The first permanent
settlements we're made in the follow
ing year when Colonia JuareZ and
Colonia Diaz we're established. The
former is about II miles from Casas
Grandes, the present terminus of the
Sierra Madre and Pacific railway.
There are about 200 families in the col
ony and il is considered the most ad-
vanced town in the state OF Chihuahua.
II possesses beautiful modern homes.
an excellent academy taught by a
proficient faculty. a Touring mill, a
creamery and well developed agricul-
tural Every home in the
town is surrounded by an orchard and
a garden. The settlement is pointed
out as an example of what thrift and
industry when i~ntelligently applied can
accomplish in the arid regions.
"Colonia Diaz is not so fortunate. as
ii Is forty miles from a railroad and
sixty miles from the nearest building
timber. Yet the colony has had a
c~ommendable growth, 1t being well
supplied with all modern agricultural
implements. The colonists possess
that indomitable perseverance that
helps to make good farmers. They
have achieved good results with their
labor and have a thrifty town of nearly
| 200 families. These families are not
small for they are genuine Mormon
families with many children.
"Colonia Duhlan is the next in size
Of the Mexican Mormon colonies. 1t
Is situated ive miles south Of Casas
Grandes on the Rio Grande. Sierra
| Nadre 4 Pacific railway. This place,
| perhaps, possesses the best education
al advantages of any Of the Mormon
colonies. The colony has secured con
cessions and is about to erect a series
| OF reservoirs and a canal system that
will give 1t splendid agricultural ad-
vantages. The settlement mas a good
| school building and other public build
ings. The coloni3ts have introduced
the most advanced theories In their ag-
ricultural pursuits. There are TO- at
least 200 families in the colony and
the prospects for further growth are
fine. The settlement has an improved
roller Touring mill and a large mod.
ern mercantile establishment.
THE other Mormon colonies of Chi
huahua are in the high mountain val
leys OF the Sierra Madre mountains
Pacheco has about forty families who
are engaged in agriculture. stock rails
ing and numbering. They produce su
perior potatoes that find a ready mar
ket at good prices in the surrounding
country. These mountain people have
accomplished wonders in the buildini
of roads that lead up rocky gorges tina
to the eye seem impossible. Thes,
were built to facilitate the hauling o
lumber from the mountains to the val
leys below.
Garcia is another mountain colony
> Its people are mostly engaged in tn,
manufacture of merchant lumber
laths and shingles for which they hav,
the latest improved and best machin
} cry. Colonia Garcia has about thirt,
, families who are prospecting and hav,
/ reared pretty homes.
, Thirty miles further up the mount
! ain Is Colonia ~Chucchupa, and thong
far removed from transportation faci.
tiles, the colonists have kept abreas
of the times. They are engaged in az
%riculture. dairying, stock raising an
numbering. At least forty families ar
, located there. They are showing con
m%endable enterprise.
There are also two colonies in tn
state OF Sonora. one is Coloria Oa'
AGA on the Bavispie river. where abou
. fifty families have reared pretty home
ensconced in orchards and vineyards
The colonists are engaged in stoc
A raising, mining and freighting. 10 eI
tablish themselves in this settlemeI
1.-THE ~colonists had to overcome great oil
=, stacles. making roads down an almos
q impossible canon. But they overcam
these difficulties with an undaunte
courage and their united efforts hay
been amply rewarded. Their garden
. are a marvel Of productiveness and III
der the almost tropical climate the
\ raise almost every variety Of fruit.
The last colony TO be establishe
was at Batapeta. about twenty-fy
s miles down the Bavispie river frol
Colonia Oaxaca. the settlement
y known as Colonia Moreles. 1t is plea
a antly situated and has good agricu
r tural lands all around ii. The colon
n is only three years old. but the pus
and energy displayed is bringing II I
the front. There are more than thirt
families in this colony. A series Of |
rigation canals has been constructe
and good crops are now being raise,
1T is united( persevering pluck wit
the application of advanced method
. that nave given such great success
the Mormon colonies In Mexico. Thel
are 5000 Mormon colonists in Mexic
the states Of Chihuahua and Sonor
e who are an example OF thrift and e
terprise to the people OF Mexico"