Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-15
PROVO DEPART ENT
The News, is Delivered by Carrier in Provo at
Seventy-fivs Cents Per Month. R. J. Dusdse. AGENT.

they are making themselves felt in the
development of the vast resources Of
the country. The City OF Mexico, Mr..
knudsen states, IS an up-to-date city
or fast becoming so, and all the con-
veniences OF civilization found In large
American and European cities can be
found there. In the country 1t Is diff
ferent The condition OF the poems.
who do all the manual work, Is very
repugnant TO the American visitor.
They live on the large estates Of the
arlstocracy in matched houses with
very unsanitary surroundings In this
respect they are worse of than the
North American Indians, because the
latter change their habtations and
their condition does not therefore be-
come so squalid as that OF the Next
can peon, who lives in the accumulat-
ed filth Of centuries. His clothing
consists of pair of cotton Trousers, a
cotton blouse and a hat, and his
bed is blanket, which also does service
as an overcoat when occasion requires.
His wages are from 25 TO 50 cents day
Mexican. As a result of his way of liv-
ing the mortality X very great, l2 out
of every IL children born dying I'm in
fancy.
Az an illustration OF the vast terri
tory owned by some of these landed
proprietors Mr., Knudsen says that the
train ran all day through one estate,
the owner Of which was reported TO
brand from 10000 10 lO0, 900 calves a
year.
Mr.. Knudsen confirms the common
story OF the Mexicans not being In a
hurry, and as an illustration tells that
the party with which he travelled was
promised horses at o'clock one after
noon TO go from Toluoa to the Utah
Mexican company's ranch but instead
of getting the horses that afternoon
they were compelled to wait four days
He is enthusiastic in the praise OF
the natural beauties of the country, the
climate being In many places ideal, and
the forests and rich soil tempting TO
those who come from a country vita
few natural advantages.
OPPORTUNITIES IN DARYING.
The matter connected with the ranch
OF the Utah Mexican company, which
Mr. Knudsen studied most closely, was
that OF the opportunity for successful
dairying and creamery business. He
thinks the conditions for making this
industry pay are good as the company
has some fine grazing lands, and with
the Introduction Of alfalfa an abund-
ance of feed can be produced Mt low
cost, while there is an unlimited mar
ket at good prices for butter,
MORMON" COLONIES PROS
Porous.
Mr.. Knudsen visited the Mormon
settlement at Dublan and reports the
people prosperous. They are aiding
fine two and three-story brick houses,
and their relations with the Mexicans
are most friendly and satisfactory.
The people from Utah are the only
ones he saw using American machinery
and implements on their farms, the
Implements used by the natives being
very crude; but In spite of this the
soil is so rich that It produces abund-
ant crops.
PROVO BUILDING SOCIETY.
A dividend OF per cent for 1905 has
been declared by the Provo Building
a Loan society, organized here two
years ago. At the meeting OF the stock
holders held Tuesday evening the sec
retary's report showed the society TO be
In a very prosperous condition. with
S1s,itO loaned on Provo homes, and APP
plications In for $4,000. The company
has sold $4,000 shares OF It's capital
stock and the fourth series OF shares
is now being taken up,
The former officers were unanimous
~ reelected. viz; Thomas ~ Taylor,
president; +. ID. Partridge. tice presi-
dent; II. F. Thomas, secretary; j. NJ.
Jensen, assistant secretary Jos A.
Buttle, treasurer: J. e. Booth, Jesse
Knight. w. X. spafford. +. W. TAYLOR.