Show 1 OPTIMISM S I Jim Lane of Kansas DI Did you ever hear of him the me Kansas troubles of the fifties when there was a strife and war war between the slavery pro-slavery and slavery anti-slavery people as to who should control Kansas eo tad ind Nebraska The slavery pro headed b bp by such men as Quantrell and the free tree sellers by John Brown Drown sod ind Jim Lane Lana The soil soU was rich and It was a prize eagerly sought There were no railroads The Tho country was covered with prairie grass It was the land of or the buffalo burtalo tho the antelope the coyote and the tho desperado i 1 big contingent of hostile hostile Indians There were no markets and the I country was filling up with emi grants Murder was on every sid and towns were burned and life was not as rosy at t it might have hlo aa e be been n though a newness and adventure was a lure In those days i r. r was a big town on the Tim Jim Lane the o orator ator lived there leo ren le would woul get discouraged and find blue and be on the point of leaving the country coun un try and Jim Lane would down the tho street get gel up on a 1 barrel larrel at a street corner and with eloquent words and matchless 1 tell 11 them of the great natural wealth cf of C the e country and urge tl a o sta stai H. H j I inn gnu mane ana nna me ue ne slavery ro-slavery crowd and when he ne would finish his speech tho the whole psychology would be chan changed cd jn In u a twinkling The people had rew courage and would swear b by Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas and they stayed and that Is the I sort of people that manes mattes maKes up Ul tho the copulation of the time great state of Kansas Kan ins sas today The They are There Is a lesson In this The Tho Uintah Uintah Uin Uin- tah basin is isher is here with all of Its iches of a fertile soil practical soil practical practical- y inexhaustible in fertility with the most abundant or water yater rights of any country In in the time whole arid region The pioneer Gays ar are passing passIng passing pass pass- ing away with a promise of In tn the near future and transcontinental transcontinental trans conti transcontinental conti lines tines on either side of oC us the cheapest good land in the whole western country and opportunities wide open and smiling at us and yet some people c cannot see anything but pessimism They have shut the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of observation of comparison of reason All they can see is a pessimistic bug and the tIle splendors of opportunities that smile at them and invite them to partake o of hl hey Y Ysee see not at all Too bad a man is punished for what he know and for what he refuses to see see- Is no malice to such a penalty Itis It Itis ItIs Is merely the effect of a man running running running run run- ning up against an fact He will leave the time country and ind go where land is no better and vill ill ilI pay ten times as much for it ft and as ashe ashe ashe he has no money to buy on the outside outside outside out out- side he will be without a home when he ho could easily have had a 3 good home in in the basin His penalty Is to become a mere newer of wood and carrier of water for somebody else If the could come around and hit some of or those men men over the head with stuffed muffed a club and bring them to rational senses it might be a blessing to them When a man is at the bottom it is a struggle struggle struggle gle to rise That means hardships for awhile and industry And when cheap lands with first class water rights are at hand It Is the part of wisdom to take In some of It and make himself a home H He hasn't Jime Lane to stir sUr him up but from all that is said he ought to see the golden opportunities In the Uintah basin L. basin L. L A. A H. H 0 o a |