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Show For 40 cents a person can take tha car arid go to Sandy and back, and a person that haa not been In tha eountry for long ought' to make the trip. It can be made in two hours, and just now he will see more sugar beets, more alfalfa and golden grain on the atalk and in the ahoek than he will see at any other time of the year for a twelvemonth. twelve-month. The whole eountry ia radiant. The apples ap-ples are hanging on the trees by the' bushel and the barrel; the vines are climbing over the houses; some late flowers are in evidence, and the air, just after a ahower like that on Saturday night, is clear as a steamboat bell. By the way, that steamboat bell comparison was borrowed from Charlie Bachus in the old days; but anyone who on a moonlight night has stood on the banka of a great river or a great lake and heard the bell of an approaching steamer will realize how pertinent ia the comparison. But really, when tourists come here with the idea that they are eoming to a desert, it would be a good thing to drive them down the valley just about this time of year. The only barren thing they will be able to see will be the mountains in the distance, dis-tance, and now and then a man who is barren of intellect. ' |