The sun., 1907-11-10
MOUMONS THRIVE In MEXICO
SEVEN COLONIES ALREADItWELL
ESTABLISHED.
Mexican Authorities ONcrlOOkinE'the Mat
ter or Polysamy Because the M"r"ons
Are Good. Industrious setilers-Mor-
mon women Are AL Hard workers.

GALVESTON, Nov. Few people in the
United States have any idea OF how Nor
monisn transplanted into MeXicois flourish
ING. and il may be said that few MeAi0ahs
even have any conception OF the strength
which the Mormons have developed in
their country.
No advertising marked their advent.
The few dozen who moved there a score OF
wears ago drove over plain and mesa from
the United States with all their worldly
belongings in their prairie schooners.
Before them a year or two had gone over
the aame ground some Of their brethren,
who like the Israelites Of old had spied
ont the land Of Canaan a little in advance
Of the main host.
And the promised land was then remote.
No railroad led to it and no towns on the
map grew in numbers by their coming.
Ont into the very wilderness the Mormon
settlers struck. and either in the valley lands
or in the mountains planted settlements
which have since grown with astonishing
rapidity. And yet rapid as was the growth
IL has been a steady, permanent increase,
due largely of course to the size OF the
Mormon families as well as to new arrivals,
In size the Mormon family holds the record,
it being no unusual thing for a Mormon
with several wives to have from twentytO
thirty children.
Unless one has business which brings him
in contact with the MOrmons in Mexico
their importance is not realized. They
have seven colonies and number oR minor
! ssttIements. These seven colonies are Co
Ionia Juarez. Oaxaca. Colonia Diaz. Dublan,
Garcia. Chuichupa and Pscheco.
Perhaps All idea of the prosperity of these
colonies may be CLEANED from the fact that
there are single stores in them carrying
stocks OF goods worth S5O,OOO. Among
other evidences Of prosperity may be emu
merated a -four mill. "A tanncry. an iron
| foundry, two lumber mills. a furniture
| factory, where all kinds of furniture are
| mazda and a shoe factory. In Colonia
! JuaTez is an academy which cost $50. .OOO.
/ Coming into competition not at all with
| the natives the MormOns SO far have raised
1 no sIJirit Of antagOnsm worth mentioning,
/ and there il perhaps no class OF immigrants
, in ali Mexico who get on better with the
ratiyes. And as for their being inter
fered with in their practice OF pOlygamy
t that seems to be far from likely. promi-
: nent Mexican lawyer remarked not long
/ aRo that settlers were needed too badly
! in his country for the authorities to Quibble
about industrious immigrants complying
with the accepted idea Of mOlal law.
! Elm fact. az a colonizing element the
MorIuons. with their several wives each
and their large families, are eInnenty
satisfactory" said he. -and We do not want
! to notice the fact that in their houses are
| two or three women TO one man. Some
day perhaps public opinion will force
! attention To II. hut not yet awhile"
And this may he said to he the genera
feeling among Mexicans.
! That they are good settlers for the cOuD
tvy evan tncir -everest critics must admit
They "a Industrious and healthy. They