The Keota news., 1921-03-04
NOT DESERT Land
Lower California He's Much Eer.
tie Sci.
Really q Ro1lea - oeoot Rooeueooe
That Only Await Development ~.
esrdlnO - Wsieee h leo
ANoeeoo eoesWopapee.

Lower California - IN expansive
region that has nsvee besn Ven
known and hes Ieog beea misun6se.
stood Even ~ q Uppee California.
despite our close peo9imity. know
little of he peninsula e1esoe IL a.
trems northern part writes Arthur
Bere. IN The Los Aaeeles Times. ysW
Of % realise that Il y noe IN utt3siy
barren waste; that e = . TROPICAL
country With Q salubsioas climate and
many regions q lux1s1ant voGstat3o0;
that its noethogn and southern paStD
are uttegiy unliko o0o anothse: and
that rich resources abound that aro
only waiting b b dsvsleoo6
Despite IT. 5aSge6 bafrsa hslshts
and cactus -elad 0osaaI which gov d
the 6ssy says q ~ usohseured san.
II WAS q land rich in history whsa
the timbess ot tho Hay1oWee Weso yee
trees In TIE teeese 0oee ooaSht and
guarded for be- oeoo and Ase 3swels.
this peninsula, WA3cA b tho Spanish
cooquistadoeoe Was "a island giittoe.
Ing In Tie aSuEo Web q sonaneA .
land for wAScA the padres Gave thsif
uVVO ~ 101S03SV 90vVS8O0 W ~ SoSOo
now Ne practically unnotieed. ID 10
nance and Alstoey 1oegoetea. and 10
possibilities II not oveg1ooke4 at Ioase
neglected
Betwsea 10s7 and 16o9 Hssnan6e
Cortes seat 1oae expeditions O vog.
sges oe discovery - ~ Wose coast
Of Mexico, bot ~ 6fse three accom-
clishsd nothing aAd tAe 1e1ftA tailed
to return. Tioally. ID 1694 Lower
California was Aloeoveeod b. Oms'
neA who anchored b ths bay q Santa
Crus (now La Pas). Later Coetss
himself visited Santa CfuS and -.
cured . quantity q pearls and Indian
slaves In 100 ytanei9eo u Ulloa
sailed Up ths CUT q California and
discovered tho mooth q tAe Colorado
rivef. u SPITE q this discovery.
Lowsf Calieoe1ia Was known - IN
island loe more thaa 100 years and %.
peared o. European maps - IN island
up to % late - 11l6
All attempts e Spain % eosontss
the CAlifoeaia peninsula en0e0 b dis'
astrous failures unt1l the task wos oea'
eEated to the Jesuits. q Com
pany q Jesus. in 1901. These jesuit
missionary priests weee possessed Of
the tact Of The Preach exp,oeseA the
persistency q the Dngiish colonial 81
tiers and The bgavogy q tho American
frontiefsman.
Padre oalvatiesTa made he 0fse
missioo oettlemont IN Lower Cali
fornia oo Octooee IL 1901. at The bay
Of San Bruno. a The eas< coast. For
70 years thereafter he Jo0ultD con-
trolled the peninsula, and those 70
years rspeeoented TIE sra o9 Lower
California's greatest activity and
greatest prosperity.
During their sojoufn the Jesuits
charted The east coast. explored the
east and west coasts The Islands ads
cent thereto and the interior In .
manner that hes never bsen excellsd;
founded y missiooA Of which II
proved to b successful; formulated .
system Of mission life never thsreaftef
surpassed; not only instructed the In
dians In religious matters. but taught
them many useful arts - well; cul.
tivated and planted the arabic lands
and inaugurated system Of irrigation
which. had they been given time for
. moro northeriy advance. would have
given Upper California . marvellous
agricultural developmsot early II the
nineteenth century. ..,
TIE sstablishmsnt of the mission in'