| Show Ie I L Communication on J JI I Editor of The Of all the good things In this world I around us i The he one ofle most abundantly furnished and found usAnd usAnd us usAnd And which for that reason we care least S about And can best spare our friends is good goodcounsel goodcounsel goodCounsel counsel no doubt Which Is why wh I advise a i That move of ther Commercial club to advertise Utah throughout the east is isa Isa isa a good piece of business for every one who owns a dollars worth of property In the state or who likes to live hive there It n is safe to assume that the money placed at the disposal of the clubs ad advertising advertising d committee will be wisely han lan died And if that Is done it Jt will prove the best investment the men of Utah can make Some time and in some way that is what will have hao to do Ie That is what other states In one way or an another another another other have been compelled to do and andS S 5 I I when they have done It right they j have been well rewarded The people t of the east are coming west wes They The are going to some new state It win wilt cost costless costless costless less per man lUan to get gat g t them into Oregon than Into Utah That tate state has suffered a little In the past because of unpleasant ant impressions the east Those impressions will vIll have to be re removed moved and removed by b Utah people There Is lB a sort ort of justice In this thi be because because because cause most of the unfriendliness for forthe forthe forthe I the state must be b credited to Utah U ut utterances utter ter And it will take rather more good words w to win back the good god will of the easterner c than it took bad words to make them think III ill of or the state Those veople people toward the rising sun are no different than the rest of us I I They are re a little more Inclined to be believe belIeve believe lieve Bad ad than good That Is to say they are exponents of the average hu human human human man nature And Utah can tell them a pleasing tale without departing from trOD truth buth Utah can paint an attractive picture without employing misrepresentation Utah can cause any an Immigrant from the east to realize his highest hopes p for Cor rich soil son fine climate wide ran range e I of oS crop possibility and good neighbors And little children when a man gets i that he lie is getting getUpS about all that he tIe ie U 1 I likely tl elto to find finel In this vain aiJi world I It will cost money to advertise adv Utah I i lots of money mane The east enst will have to tobe tobe tobe be plowed with de devices devices vices and harrowed with iteration of oE o facts and seeded down with enticing I statements the sort son that go home with witha a man and stick In his bis memory memon And Anel I j Ithe the harvest will be the filling of Utah j I with a million more ot of the same ex I celent class of people that now no live i there I Which reminds me Did id you ever know kno that the Ute Mormons are a sort of stepfather to Hood River Eiver That there I would have hae been no Hood River Rivet apple aiple furore all over the tIle world if it had not no i been for one of oC the Utah men Well W ll i that is said here to be the fact And Andas Andas Andas as the man said It came up this way ay River has been here bere of course for a long time So has as the valley alley and the soil But the land landS was not considered better than other land hand Chiefly it was dry But a Ii Mormon man whose name nam one resident sas saw s was I Middleton and another says was Ha Har Harison j rison risen came here from Utah and und brought the knowledge know of irrigation He got a a big tract o of land and a d lie con constructed constructed on I ditches and fl ms and nud brought bro ht water down from the edge of or j the mountain m country where there ther Was WasI I plenty plent of or it and conducted it over his land And his fruit trees flourished d dand and waxed w ed rich His crops were bet better better ter and more sure than thaC those of any anyone an anyone one lone else Others caught this notion and now there are flumes all over aver the I valley and a d sueh uch crops of corn orn and wheat are scorned corned In the far more profitable le fruits fruIt and berries I am told that the Utah man sold old his place at a though he had been at Dr grea great expense expense v to introduce the newer and more profItable method and that ne no t a comparatively rica den man manSo So t o ou see even northern north rn Ort Or gon and niev even n the gard garden n spot spat of o the world Is indebted hi to tom my Utah Uta All Allright Tight rIght h v Realty Really Re llY it iz is r nth th r pleasant pl up here My MS Impression of the thO Wasatch that th t Of or somberness so of strength and rid permanence and und dependability and only that th t beauty which clouds loud can lend But here lier Ute the hills are re all green and there here Is a amass mass of forest upon ip p n them all In the deep dark green of oJ O Othe the pines Up there on the h of or the Wasl shore hore across th tIre Columbia Columbi from Hood River RI er the pic pia picture ture is hs beautiful J with all the beauty of fc cOntour glorified In the beau beu beauty beauty ty of color For the same kind skies are here that we used to worship to together together gether ether there you know And the basic qualities of the picture are rather pleasanter here And for some reason of colors the prevailing atmosphere tone Is blue All Allup Allup up nu and down the river as far as one can see there is a blue effect aga against st the more definite greens of the moun mountains talus and the even more pronounced browns of ot the bare pl phaes ces on the heights were Washington farmers have h ve cleared away the forest for their fields and orchards It Is the blue of morn mornIng mornIng morning Ing skies where the painter has been lavish and never seen where the tones are low lowIt 10 lowIt It rains a good deal and yet et as a arule arule arule rule not very ve heavily Men Ien at work on the fields do not seem to take the rains seriously They work right along alon I was up In la the apple aple a house bouse the tile other day da and took shelter from what my Indiana training told Jold me was enough of rain to operate as an ex excuse cuse to quit work and ana there all down the valley valle filling it to the very brim of the circling hills hUls was a rainbow No it seem like a bow Any Anyway Anyway Anyway way I could c not definitely trace race t tio e curves of any specific bow and yet yOt all that great expanse was alive alio with the primary colors and the arc WIlS there set in the heavens of ot this thia earth and simply flooding the miles with its delicate beauty Some one with in his sou would have thought all aU the rainbows rainbow of the west t bad been dissolved and just sort of pushed down here Into the valley of the Columbia until such time as It was necessary to span th tirma ment with them And oh there was enough rainbow my to give e hope for all of olus us 1 What That an excellent paper Vou ou are azu making How flow Ho good It it IS isto tos see a ajo jour journal jo t t nal big bg enough to be broad enough to t everybody and de deserve dese deserve serve se ve well of or v rond d fair lair enough to treat U at air sul as friends M a story One time in Kansas Julia Ward Howe came to tomy tomy my town nn with her husband Dr tt Howe had lent lenta a good deal d al or on real estate estat In Tn the th county and there th re came Caine a time when he h had haa to choose between harshness hatS nesa and patience But that th t part of lot It Is rs f another story sto The church to Which they belonged n was was giving some sort ort of 1 i imet t In the th opera op ra and they went ent Because of ot the great prominence of at Mrs Howe Howl a large l e number of people attended and the thing was as going well when vien n fin nn auction auction auction tion of trifles was started sinned Money y getting I guess was w one ona of ot the ob objects objects jests of or the tbt meeting And ond the auctioneer auctioneer standing st for i ne faction In th church could not the temptation to play a practical joke on a prominent prominent promInent nent merchant wha who represented the Op Opposing opposing opposing posing faction action For there were fac factions factions factions in even the churches church of Kan Kansas K n sas It a condition ever seen any anyplace anyplace anyplace place else of course Well the old man selected as the receiving end of the joke sit it still under ander the laugh as the man attack attacking attackIng ing lag him had confidently believed he would Not ot even the presence pres nce of the woman oman who had written ritten The Battle Hymn of or the Republic could seal s him l m to silence He oX lup up and made maile a lit Hi Hitie little tie tle speech h l r with its ita enmity for the other faction facU n so filled wit will references which no one except toe inc lo to local local cal cat people so angry that the whole evening was spoiled for c SO 5 It t would l lv 4 er better to pre pe pretend pretEnd tend that all al a Vas as s peace at least until the visitors away And as Cap Captain Captain tain thin Cuttle said of his lila watch or was It Captain The r this remark is in tile the application of o j jOr H HOr Or was that what he h said Anyway good temper temp t Is an excellent thing my masters LEROY ARMSTRONG Hood River Ore May 10 1 1 I |
