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amount. The Fuerte (in Spanish mean¬ 
ing “strong”) is a strong-flowing river 
with enough water—as its name would 
indicate—to irrigate both sides of its 
course for nine or ten miles in width. 
The Mayo is but little inferior, and the 
Yaqui is even greater. 
The Pacific ports of this fertile belt are 
Mazatlan, Guaymas, and Topolobampo. 
At the latter point an American colony 
was founded some years ago, of which 
the reading public heard considerable, 
not very favorable to that country as 
a colonization district, and with a great 
deal of aspersion thrown at the colonizers. 
There was so much crimination and re¬ 
crimination by the two sides that I do 
not believe anybody ever obtained a clear 
idea of how matters stood there. The 
fact is about this : A colony was put in 
