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Show A CH VXBE HAS I1EEX WKOUf.'HT. The Rocky Mountain .Vca- has the following iwragraph. It shows not only the apparent character of the country here before It was oj:ned up to civilization, irrigation and cultivation by the 'Mormons,-"' hut the change that has been wrought since our pioneers crossed tlie plains. But what would Mocassin Mocas-sin MacBride say to the writer in the Atlantic UontMifi " Thoascrtions that the first visitor to this Itocky Mountain country made in regard to its agricultural rapacitie now read very funny.' remarked a gentleman tho other day. 'I remember remem-ber to bavo been in the country some three or four years ago and to havo been looking over soma bound volumes vol-umes of tho Atlantic Monthly. In one of them I found a description of the march across the plains of Albert Sidney Sid-ney Johnson's column on the occasion of tho Mormon revolt. Tho writer of the article appears to Lave accompanied accom-panied the expedition, and ha wrote of the country as wnolly barren, and asserted that it would never be able to produce anything. As I read the paragraph para-graph I recalled the fact that from the front door of the house in the spring I had seen about tn enty plows ru nning. It was then harvest time, and stepping step-ping again to tho door, from which a wide view conld bo had. I counted nine harvesters at work catling down the golden wheat. In fact, the wholo section over which I could cast my eye was ono vast grain field. Tho predictions of tho magazine writer contrasted so strongly with what I could see that I realized for tho first time tho rapid strides which agriculture agricul-ture was making in Colorado and the success which had attended farming-by farming-by irrigation. Bat tho -l(iii!.c writer probably never beard of irrigation." |