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Show n r i r - - - - t - - -v r - ' -v ' fc a 1 J L . , a W TYh r-r.TC Pn- -1 r t L VU U.lL AJ J . Jl, "VThtt is becoming of the sons of the proeerous farmers of the East and Middle West!" asked s man at the Kenyon ltst evening. "Tor twenty ycarg I have traveled through the East and Middle West. My business brought me in contact with ft l&rg number of farmers of both sections. sec-tions. - I may say that I havevknown some of , their sons since childhood. Year after year I have visited the same sections and have seen the boys grow from childhood to manhood and leave the old home. 1 "For the past two or three, years I have bees studying the reason and I think that I have found it. Farming land in the East and Middle West that is til that is worth havingis taken qp; was taken up, I may say, many. years ago. The country for the last tn. years has enjoyed an era of prosperity such as it never knew before. Fannin jr land in New England and the Middle West is beyond the reach of the young man. His father would rather hold , what he hat and send the young man to some new country a ease or 'I carved my fortune out, you carve yours.' "But the son is not in the same position as was the . father, who entered en-tered a new country without money. ' The old man ' as he is generally callod has money with which to back the son in the new country, be it in farming or something else. During a -recent visit through Kansas, Iowa and other Middle Western States, I met a numbei of old-time friends who had sent their sons West to seek their fortunes, not alone in farming, but in other industries, and I found that the father vi as backing the boys, in almost err instance. ' ' "This it my first visit to Utah and I- am surprised to find a number of the b-ya 1 knew as children, now living in this State. But I was more than glad to bear that every one of them was doing welL" At this point in the story a well-known well-known mining man who bad been ft listener said: . "You ?re a stranger to me, but I am glad to meet you, inasmuch as this is yo.T first visit to Utah. And I want to ts1! you that you will find the best . of the , voung blood of the East and Middle West in Utah and Nevada today, to-day, and you will find in ninety-nine cases ont of every hundred that , they are dcing well You will find them engaged en-gaged in business, mining and other pursuits. "If you -can get down to the cold factr ir- nearly every fcase you will find that tb old man' back on the farm is backing his son in his Western enterprise." en-terprise." Others joined in the conversation with tho result that it was found that hundreds of young. men from the East and . Middle West were coming to Utah and Nevada and that they were being' backed in most eases by their fathers, A majority of these young men have received the best education that money could procure, "Dad" in most eases paying the freight. So much confidence has "dad" in the boy that he sends him West to not only seek bis own fortune, for-tune, but to add t.i the fortune of "dad," who is furnishing the money for the enterprise. Many of these young men ire now in the mining camps of Utah and the Sagebrush State with authority au-thority to call on father for any reasonable rea-sonable amount for investment. - In sou.e cases it is known that the younjf xr.n represents a number of farmers who are seeking to increase their fortune in the mines of the two States mentioned. In other .cases - representatives are sent West by the prosperous farmers of tic East and Middle West to seek out and secure land for farming and stock raising purposes. ' A hundred representatives seeking investment in the mines and farms of Utah alone have arrived in Salt Lake dunug the last three months, is the assertion as-sertion made by a man in position to know whereof he speaks. "I.f yoa' know the young men of the East and Middle West," said the mining mi-ning man to the man at the Kenyon. "I will roaVe you a proposition: You - . U M - t 1 1 1 it. come wiin me lor a wwk toruuun me mining and business centers of Utah and Nevada. If I do not show you 100 young own from the sections that you have mentioned, every one of whom has "rrivtd within a "year and every one of whom is doing well, I will pay all expeitses'and pay for the time that you bsve lost." "And if you keep your word, what will it cost met" ".V.-t one cent. The onlv thing that I will ak you to do is when you back r.ntt, try and tell the true story.of Utah and the- West. Of course I know that yon can't half tell the story, because' be-cause' tho most enthusiastic of us can 't do that. But just try to tell it as best you c?n." "I doa't believe that T will accept yonr iuviation. '' said W. A. Jennings. "I hnve only been in Utah four days, but I heve seen so much that means that this is the place to live and make money that it will keen me bimy all my tim tn tell people that tbey ought to com 1o Utah.." "T5nt T-on hare not seen a tenth of what we have to offer," said the mining man.' "Do T have seen enough to convince me. T know now why the farmers of the E-it and Middle Wst sre sending their sore to Utah and Nevada and why they are telling them to draw for any reasonable amount. Those old farmers farm-ers 9i fur wiser than we have been giving tbem credit for. They know what. the are doing. And T. for one, am convinced that their judgment is correct." |