New Salt Lake City.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 31, 6 February 1891, Page 3

New Salt Lake City.

Those Mormons who consider life not worth living withoub polygamy, will be delighted to learn that a special earihiy paradise has been prepared for them. They are invited bo jusb step over the border into Mexico, where a certain philanthropist named Faurot has secured three millions of acres for their accommodation. Lest, however, his own name and reputation should not carry sufficient weight among the saints, he has taken into partnership Mr John W. Young, eldest son of the ever-to-be-lamented Brigham. This is as it should be ; the eternal fitness of things prescribed that some member of the illustrious Youn<» family should lead the many-wived faithful into the wilderness. It is reported that 10,000 Mormons have already signified their willingness to make a fresh start in Northern Mexico, and as they are industrious, sober, tkrifty people, they will succeed, no doubt, in converting a desert inbo a garden, as they did ab Utah. They are, too, peaceful folk, so long as the ' peculiar instibubion ' is respected, while quite capable of holding their own against ' border ruffians ' and other evil characters. For your Mormon can shoob straight, like bhat obher pious person, bhe Boer, and is equally quick in resorting bo rifle practice against bhe oppressor. Thus the new colony starts with every prospect of success, and we may expecb ib to become a second Übah in the course of a decade or bwo. It is all bhe more grabifying to learn, bherefore, thab the disinterested Mr Faurot and his angelic partner will have their philanthropic virtue recompensed. The Mexican Govornment contracts to pay them two hundred dollars for each family, and fifty dollars for every bachelor who settles on the location, so that even after deducting travelling expenses, a tidy balance will remain in the promoters' hands. Ib is brue they have covonanbed bo construct a considerable stretch of railway, but obligations of that sort, when entered into between free American citizens and such effete States as Mexico, are apt to remain unfulfilled by the tree citizens.