Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-16
(By Chas. A. Dinsmore.D

CULlACAN. Sinaloa Mex, May r. No country today Is so fraught with romance. and mystery as Old Mexico, and while the land is at our door we know little of it. l have just re- turned from a trip as far down the West Coast as Mazatlan, stopping enroute at Guaymas, Cliacan and Al tata. l knew something of the glam- our of Mexico-from personal desires but now that I know more of the country and it's people, 1 am imbued with it more than ever. It is indeed the land from whence today Dame Fortune smiles and beckons. I'm going to slip in a bit of history first. and then get down to business"
 l called on Governor Canedo several times while at Culiacan, and we got so We understood each others signs 1 weH-the goverc1r's "habla chioo English" and "Yo mismo Espanol- and one afternoon 1 mentioned the | look of age on many of. the houses of ! the city. He called in his official interpreter, ST. Cauret. and then learned something about age with | whiskers on. In 1342 the Aztecs | founded their first capital here at ' Culiacan. after sailing and marching days and months, and here, then, was the first actual settlement of the Mex | ican west coast. Those people held the country for centuries. Now, in | 1542 Don Juan Rodriguez and party | of hardy pioneers sailed from the Altata coast and went so far as San Pedro-or Los Angeles. They liked the country fairly we'll, but the blood | yearning. that irresistible force that brings one back to those he loves. made impossible settlement. Two hundred years later. however, de- ! scendants of Don Juan again made that voyage around the Lower Cali l fornia and up the coast to Los Ange- les, and founded a new country possible, this time. because the ex. | plorers were accompanied by their l wives and children. And now, at the expiration of more than another cen
 tury Los Angeles people are going into Sinaloa and peopling that land with the descendants of those who first peopled Los Angeles. Thus his tory repeats itself.
 The Sinaloa country was shut of from the world because of it's almos ! inaccessibility excepting by water One side was an almost impenetrabls | Pacific. These difficulties have beer overcome by the Southern Pacific railway, and with the Octopus (which opens to the world one of the richest region of the continent) comes energetic, far-seeing people eager to take hand in the up-build
 ing of an empire. One sees many evi dences of the restless American, and especially so along the line of the Southern Pacific, where the Sinaloa Land company is establishing a mum
 Der of colonies, and where also, lit. tie farther on, La Prosperidad' Colony of Tucson is bringing in ''pathfinders' from Bostcn and elsewhere. That's something of ''corker." too-to be introduced to a lady and learn that she has immjgrated from the heart of Boston to the wilds of Sinaloa. But 1 what the true American won't do foI a home is absolutely not doable. They are ali making good. too. The condi
 lions are quite favorable. Most of this land is sub-irrigated That is
 tho water is not deeper than 15 to B feet, and so the soil never gets bone dry" One fine crop is easily
 raised: and three and four may be by i.rigaticnL Down near Navolato saw mighty nice looking little
 woman standing near the tracks look
 ins about and l went over and shook
 hands and made friends right away
 Her husband was up to his boot-top.
 half mile away starting an individ
 ual irrigation project. She promised that when the train returned she't
 have her husband out to meet me And sure enough as We pulled in or our return there they were-just fint
 examples of American men and wom en, happy in each other and their DOS
 sessions and their future possibilitie, down here in the far-off country their people thousands of miles away land there wasn't bit of yearnins . in eye or tone or word They wer. |, contented because of the only reason that makes an American really so- they were doing we'll So I talked of sinking fer the well that soil like
 with the young fellow. He said tha
 In sinking for the we'll the men went through 2S feet of that wonder-ricf
 soil-and he seemed to think that
 soil like that would never give out
 and probably he was right He is
 sinking well, and on that will put g
 force pump arrangement and vii
 then be able to irrigate every foot oi
 their 90 acres, which was bought fol
 $17.0o geld, an acre. They have nc
 house yet-just live in a tent-but
 they are looking forward with mucf
 complacence to the building of a bis
 roomy, cool adobe as soon as tho ibusines of the farm shall be attended 'to-and I am sure that in a few year: they will have as happy a home as
 will be found anywhere in the world
 and with the means to make a triy
 home" once a year anyway But thii
 is not telling a story.
 There are some things one must b,
 careful about in going into Old Mex
 leo for either inestment or to really build home-things that will surely result in good or bad as they give heed. The matter of taxes Is no nor, to be dreaded than in the United States. The laws are favorable
 There Is this, however. about tn,
 laws-the Mexican people make then and enforce them. As a rule th'
 lesser officials are not educated. anC : 1t Is due to their ignorance that SC many partial miscarriages of the lav ' obtain. But when one gets in toucl lwith the real heads of affairs he vii