Show WILL ARD S. HANSEN Received Pleasure in Joy in and Will 1 Have Comfort in His Old In the editor of the Utah Independent first Bear River He left Cor-inne early in the morning and traveled nearly all day northward through a wilderness of sage The jack rabbits and oles were Bear River City was barren of vegetation because everything had been killed by irrigating the land with the salty water of the Malad An pioneer shanty was to be seen and at the extreme of the under the Bear River canal a little The Bear River Canal had just been completed and nearly all the land under it had been thrown open for But who wanted to buy and live there with nothing but coyotes and jack rabbits for On the divide between Collinston and Willard Hansen had succeeded in raising immense crops of dry on a large He also had a good foresight and saw the future of Bear River He purchased a large tract of sage brush land under under the Bear River Canal and went to Knockers from everywhere condemned the Bear River Valley and the and gave scores of reasons why one not buy But while knockers bought while the croakers croaked about scarcity of and poor Hansen was clearing away sage brush and sowing the winter months while jack knife thought they had nothing to do in the cold cut notches the boxes and benches around the stove in the county store and and whined at the the and the su-ar and predicted a late frost and poor Hansen was at home repairing his farming studying and improving his breeds of and preparing for his summer It not only paid him to be thus but there is a thousand times more pleasure in improving the building a beautifying a lawn and a than there is in sucking a pipe or a or squirting tobacco and gossiping around a county store or a blacksmith A country store sitter and gossip and a country saloon bum and are a bigger curse to any farming community than an annual hail I started out to describe Hansen's house shown on page not because I cared to please Hansen or to gain the favor of a rich but to show to every boy and every young man and what can be done on a farm in if brains are used as well hearts and how to make joy out of home to get pleasure out of and satisfaction and contentment in improving the Hansen commenced to build he started right by putting an eight foot basement under the whole The three-horse power engine and the rotary pump-are placed in the basement under the The tank room contains a gallon si eel tank that furnishes a high pressure water system for the whole This tank is connected with the high wooden tank operated with a When there is no the stock tank is filled from the house in case of an accident to the house water can be drawn from the stock tank through the In this way the home as well as the yards has a double water A dynamo driven by the engine furnishes electric the house is also piped for acetylene which is used almost exclusively as the cost is From the kitchen cellar to the kitchen a dumb waiter does all the heavy A clothes chute delivers all soiled clothes irom the two floors above to the basement A large room in the basement is used for a this room is fully equipped with modern up-to-date wasi and also with a large galvanized iron The fire used to make the boils the clothes and dries A washing for people is done at a cost of six cents for gasoline and the time of one person for three Five hours i hard work ironing the plain i clothes' in the old way is now done in twenty-five Hot water is used for Early three grates are used practically a double heating A two-horse power vacuum cleaner is now being installed so the daily sweeping and home cleaning which now takes the time of one person and very hard will be done in a much better way in Two bath rooms sanitary equipped and a rear wash room all hot or cold water on the hot water from a 55 tank in the kitchen and an 80 tank in the boiler room which gives an ample All rooms are the sitting room is down stairs bed room up stairs bed rooms are large and The finish is in wood birch and yellow maple floors first floor has a second floor The barn shown cut is two stories Another barn a little larger than the one besides wagon In some future issue of the we hope to give a description of Hansen's barns and his success in sheep |