Arizona republican., 1921-04-03
w. Y. PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
 INV PHOENIX TUESDAY, APRIL I9

cultivation areas will of necessity be
 restricted by the water supply" There is no longer the openly ex-
 pressed hatred for Americans in Mex ico MT. Elliott said. On the other
 hand, he said, there is pronounced evidence of friendliness towards the people of this country. The Inter vention society, organized eight years ago to murder all Americans, even themost intimate friends of members. has suffered a repulsion of feeling. The society has tired of warfare and , is now discussing intervention of perfect frankness. realizing what it has done to stabilize conditions in Cuba
 Tt seems altogether unlikely that there will be any further antipithy toward Americans in Mexico" Mir. Elliott said
 At Los Mochis, members of the party were the guests of B. F. John son. president ot the United Sugar company, which owns and operates cane sugar plantation of 30,000 acres in the Los Mochis valley, state of
 Sinaloa. In fact the party made the trip from Nogales, Sonora, to Los Mochis. thence down the west coast. in a private car kindly furnished by Mir. Johnson.
 The valley MT. Elliott explained, slopes gradually into Popolobampa
 bay, one of the finest natural seaports on the western Pacific coast, he said. The bay is exceptionally deep and will in sime, prove a most valuable water lane for all produce grown in the val ley.
 The Johnson plantation, Mir. Elliott said is under a state of high culti rrr.z T1y,~ 1,,@ sion of the type one might expect to find on the larger and better estates
 of the south It was planned entirely
 by Mrs. Johnson. the charming wife 1 of their host, Mr Elliott said. Among
 many features included in the home is
 a large tile swimming pool Sur
 rounding the house proper is a beau 1 tifuI floral garden.
 The Johnson family went through all of the Yaqui Indian raids save one,
 and on this one occasion they were i in the United States when the raid 1 took place. The result was that they 1 suffered considerable loss. During the raids, MT. Johnson and l Mead Lewis, son of R. Allyn Lewis
 of Phoenix, coolly stood their ground. MT. Lewis is vice president of the
 company.
 Neither of the men had any desire I to resist the raiders, MT. Johnson
 told his guests, nor did they want to 1 flee and leave their valuable property l to the mercy of the Yaquis. The only l thing left for them to do was to re- main and establish contact with the
 Indians at the earliest possible mo-
 ment Once contact was established,
 Mir. Joh1son said, the rest was easy. l The procedure, he said, was to fix the | pl, ;Af tair candy clothes nat
 him on the back and send him on his
 way rejoicing.
 MT. Johnson spoke encOuragingly of the treatment received from the Mexi- 1 can government He ascribes his
 present position to the neutral atti-
 tude which he has carefully main l tained throughout all the turmoil of the past few years
 l Americans are taking a prominent | part in the development of the agri- cultural resources of the many val l leys, Mir Elliott said. A number of Englishmen also were encountered. The land is practically all bottom
 land, requiring little leveling and con-
 taining a dense growth of semi -tro-
 pical vegetation, easily cleared, he
 said.
 "The civilizing influence of capital has prevented the country from re-
 verting to barbarity." MT. Elliott de
 clared. The Southern Pacific has made valiant efforts to maintain ser vice and other big corporations have performed like service for the Mex lean nation through the years or re- bellion and revolution"
 Another blg reclamation project financed by Harry Payne Whitney and John Hays Hammond, also wa: discussed by MT. Elliott upon his re turn. This project is located in th' Yauui valley, below Mazatan- Al American named Green is the en gineer in charge, he said. There ar' approximately 10000 acres ur.s<r cul' tivation in this project now. MT. Elliott also spoke highly of th' American consul at Mazatlan, MT Chapman. who, he sad, is doing won derfuI work there. And lastly, h. spoke of the "sportsman's paradise all along the west coast, where h. said fishing and hunting and unex celled on the north American con ! tinent-