Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-08-30 | Page 4 | The Most Useful Citizen

THE MOST USEFUL CITIZEN A former governor of Kansas Kan s has said that Foster Fester Dwight Coburn secre Mere secretary secretary tary of ot the state board of ef agriculture is the most useful citizen in that state And no man can possibly be given higher praise pral As the story ston gos g J i Kaneas aneas was in a abad abad bad had way sixteen years ears ago t Newcom Newcomers N ers from the eastern and a states stat had Iad tome iome to the plains plain and ani tried to tomake mak make ts Ims And they failed tailed because they didt dl t know how to conquer the soil oll lJ They turned back their covered V flaming with eurs s for Kan Kansas sas and abandoned their equities in int t tho P SOIL Long time ago Sidney Lanier Lauler de dared cUred to the world There is more in int th t man than there is in the land laoo And that is what Coburn of Kansas proved d He had studied the soil and he hI told the people how to make their thair atta attack attak k He try to counteract the advertising of the retreating losers He sought to make life Ute possible for tor those who remained And all the state of Kansas I anas rose as one man to help him himIn himIn himIn In two years the tho tide had bad turned People east were learning of the ease ea with h Kansas soil can be ba re ye reclaimed reclaimed claimed and made to yield richly be because because cause every man in Kansas was telling la itt his letters in his personal interviews through the medium of at his local pa papers papers pers pore of the prosperity awaiting Indus Industry industry t try v and capacity in the Kansas soil soU We Wp of ot Utah liva bave a better batter soil than Kansas has Utah can produce more wheat to the acre than can any other in the world We have a Ii few men who have hae learned much of the soils Mils secrets and they are getting magnificent nt result They still are studying and giving to the people the tha benefits of at their discoveries dl What remains to It for the people of to unite in the strong word ward of commendation for the state to tell the fair truth about Utah to make life fife here hero pleasant and profitable and then to be assured that th t the thousands will wUl hurry here from the east No knockers at home That should be bp b the slogan of every friend of ot Utah