Show IN THE SUNNY SOUTH Essay Caighs Reminiscences of Sanpete County I GOLDEN GRAIN GARNERED Ho Leaves an Impression that the air or Water of Saupete Does Not Agree With Him Perhaps you hae never been to the interior of Sanpete County place noted for daybeforeyesterday men hardworking women wellappearing girls who have nothing to do with that abomination in the sight of nature the bustle more or less persevering boys a newspaper a steam threshing machine ma-chine about 4COO bridges some sheep dip called ditch water and a few Republicans RE-publicans Well dont go unless you have business and dont remain after the business is ended Sanpete is as Sanpete as it ever was It is a fragment frag-ment of the map whose confines are distinctly marked on all sides with bristling mountains butting cliffs and the rags and jags of neology promiscuously promiscu-ously thrown together by the haphazard hap-hazard hand of Nature when the old dame was hot and they stand there today to-day very much as she left them DARK AND SULLEN AND FBOWMNO but not barren no tbey promise to be very fruitful and to leave an impression upon the tablets of our history like unto that which Nevadas Comstock and Pioche Montanas Alder Gulch and Anaconda and Idahos Wood River have already placed there So far what has been done in the way of development de-velopment has been accomplished almost al-most entirely by novices whose knowledge knowl-edge of promising ores and precious metals has been acquired by recent experience ex-perience and association with those who have seen the elephant elsewhere else-where It is the richest part of the Territory but scarcely a suggestion as to how much it really amounts to has yet been given to the world I believe if I were to withdraw from the field and let my interests there go that San pete would immediately commence to loom as no other parts of Utah has ever yet done if those who have claims and prospects there only knew how much they would gain by buying me out they would surely send in some bids at once I am not one of those peculiarities in life whose presence is conducive to immense prosperity especially such as is to be obtained IN PLUTES DOMINIONS I never had anything against Plnte r but he doesnt seem to take very kixdly II to me somehow The knowing ones say that a certain class of people and their money are soon parted but how is it with those who never get enough to find out whether they belong in that I class or not t What is the matter with them if anything And yet when I look around me and take particular notice of the kind of people that have got the most and done the least I sometimes feel consoled in the midst of involuntary impecuniosity I know of one man or rather person worth thousands upon thousands who recently re-cently climbed over the fence surrounding surround-ing the baseball grounds here to avoid paying two bits at the gate I wouldnt do that All those who are very wealthy have carriages of their own as well as passes over the street car and other railway lines b means of which they dont walk enough to induce a proper circulation of the blood and are nearly always dyspeptic illnatured and generally cussed not so here And thus it goes There is a decided equality among men after all if we were only philosophic enough to recjg nize it Lets seewhat was it I intended to say when this chapter was begun Oh yes 1 It was SOMETHING ABOUT SANPETE its possibilities and impossibilities its people its products and its prospects The greatest present need of the San peter is rapid transit and a good deal of it The Sanpete Valley Railway So called still brings up in the bogs of Chester an unincorporated city of uncertain un-certain dimensions and population consisting principaly of fine distances and excellent vacancies an occasional barn and an imposing straw stack lending lend-ing a kind of delirium tremens effect to the landscape Well the S P V R limited very got thus far and no far her Perhaps it was deemed best to take no risks in the way of having the whole business go straight to sheol for the earth is very yielding in that vicinity too thin to walk upon und net quite thin enough to fiah in There is an excellent route for a railway along the Eastern Mountains however and the one that gets through Sanpete Valley Val-ley first that way or any other will reap a harves Iha7e three or four sacks full of ore to ship now and dont want to wait until the S P V gets another an-other locomotive before having it done Harvesting is nearly over and the husbandman smiles over his GARNERED GROUPS OF GOLDEN GRAINS seeming to reflect from the bursting bins a tinge of brightness mutely but unmistakably bespeaking independence independ-ence for the owner sustenance for all and adding a substantial assurance of the constant increase of that welcome prosperity growing up and expanding on every hand 1 believe this is new Yes the natives are well fixed In the matter of cereals for that matter they have nearly all the substantiate iu abundance They also have some pretty good stock and can boast of the long estlived hens and roosters that ever lived Dead chickens are seldom seen I in Sanpete Occasionally however one topples over from old age When I 1 was there three years ago one of the veterans at a stagestation was no more He had departed this life about a week before and his remains were lying instate in-state in the middle of the dinner table I broke the tines of my fork trying to harpoon a leg but finally managed fo escort it the leg to my plate by means of a spoon The genial host informed me that it was a greatly lamented fowl being highly blooded and having the longest pedigree of any rooster San pete Through respect for such dignity dig-nity j and some other reasons l I 1 did not devour the leg but left it where it was I am informed that it has ben boiled every day since and is as invulnerable now as ever The reason has just been discovered in the animals last sickness sick-ness with the hope of restoring its wonted health the proprietor had giVtn it several doses of Guarley John sons Valey Tan pills The remedy was applied tco lat but the pills got in their work in another waythe animal had no bile in him ESSAY OAIGH |