STUDIO OF FRANK J. CORWIN, ARTIST. Water Colors, Crayon, Pastel or Oil. PORTRAITS MADE AND ENLARGED Clifton Forge Virginia Nov ^20\^1893 To the ruling Morman Elder Salt Lake City Kind Sir a fiew days ago a jentleman spent considerable time withe me here. he was formally a citizen of your city he speks verry highly of you as a people & seeing that you were purchaising lands in Mexico, & knowing that I was interested in a large tract situated in ...

who has examined the land & is acquainted in stat of Durango. Sais Durango is the richest State in America. this land is all in graded their are many natural meadows. Some of them containing as high as 500 Acres, redy for cultiva- tion. land lays well. can be drove over in a buggy. it is well watered, by mountain Streams. on it are many good watertowers it is warrented to cut 20,000 feet lumber per acre. timber mostly Pine, Oak, Cedar &c lumber there I am informed is worth from $30 to ^$^50 per ...

189[3] you or your ageants to examine it thoroughly. it certainly is desireable for a colony Abut 3 months since a R. R. was completed to Durango, & they are now Surveying & locating a continuance of said Road through said lands it will be continued to Maitzland on pacific cost, & they inted completing it in two years you have a continneous line of R. R. from United States to Durango. I make the above Statements from what I believe to be reliable authority. as for reference I refer you to Judge ...

References. Yours Respectfully John W Corwin Clifton Forge Virginia Box 26. [upside down text] John W. Corwin Nov. 20 [18]93 [end of upside down text]