Show from the Kansas border from New Ki oma to Cedar Vale a distance of 125 miles The strippers as the homeseekers are termed are lined up all along the border of the coveted strip waiting impatiently the boom of the cannon at high noon next Saturday They are there with their families and their household goods their live stock and their farm machinery ma-chinery and with a hope long deferred the mother with her youngest child at her breast and a half dozen or more perhaps per-haps of various ages there under the shade of a covered wagon cooking and caring for her loved ones sleeping eating eat-ing living out in the open air and the very air filled with alkali dust the discomfort dis-comfort of it all intensified by the intene heat of the midday and the cold nights and mornings but that mother belying her sad sunken eyes and emaciated face and form is as loving and tender and painstaking as one will find her at the little log house or dugout she will call her home a fortnight or at least a month hence and she will drudge at her work with a happy contented appearance no matter what adversity befalls What a lesson to the thousands oi mothers who have always known a comfortable home and no worry The picture will be recognized recog-nized by hundreds of the pioneers of Utah and the sympathies of those noble devoted de-voted women will go out to their sisters now struggling for a home as they did once under similar inconveniences But that home will be doubly dear when once established for bitterness in effort brings sweetness in repose The majority of the homeseekers nowhere now-here are of the better sort of Nomads the old refugee element so common to other openings of Indian lands having disappeared disap-peared from the scene orelse are lamming lam-ming the brush as one old stager ventured when queried regarding them The majority of the homeseekers nowhere now-here are provided with all or least the requisite articles needed for beginning life in a primitiveway as is usual with settlers of a new country Indeed the requirements require-ments of the homebuilder state builder i you please are less always than where civilization in the fuller sense of the term exists As the old house is replaced re-placed by a now and better one and the prairie and blackjack hills are transformed trans-formed into meadows and fields of grain into orchards and barn yards when home comforts displace the struggles mci dent to the buildingup of thewilderness home greater comforts are thought of and enter into the category of requisites The pioneers of Ohio and Illinois of Missouri and Kansas and of Utah as well have all realized these factsand are none the worse for it indeed their ideas were broadened by adversity and they became less selfish broader more human for it all The great run is looked forward to with eagerness by all With the days approaching ap-proaching have come the speculator the tinhorn the schemer and the blackleg Those who are to eager to gain but have little knowledge of the world have fallen an easy prey to the sharper Those who have not provided for the future are eating stale sandwiches at two bits apiece and fight for them at that price The picture is not an inviting one even to those who have made careful preparations for there is not a soul in the whole broad exoanse of territory now being opened no stores or sources of supply sup-ply no houses to shelter one and little water and only then as God has distributed distrib-uted it hence the hardships to be endured en-dured are multiform |