Show 14 14 MANY IES IX A few ago with a party rom Bear Hopped at little Snyder on the South river in Colorado to look j it come land there ou our lira journey to Wc j the depot by the I laud with a good tram and observation us the farina he had to as all good hind agents told us of the good the and pros-i T the farmers in tint faction nf the lie also in slowing terms of the the everything J that the farmers con-t tented and We all ci-j joyed the day's rido with him I looking at the farms and saw j that story he told us was were quite a few drawbacks ami hut I land agent had neglected to We arrival back j in town at night 1 we would have to wait un- til next afternoon we could get a train sauntering around the j town the next morning wo saw a sign over a John Wc all went into i I the shop and soon saw that would rather talk than 1 and ns wc wanted to I know the town wo ened to He told us that 1 ho had lived in Snyder two that the reason he left Ohio was the people there wen so selfish that he would not live among I that the and I the farmers around the out- skirts of the town were than all the people In j He was fo full of hat- j 1 delighted in Blander-I lag his own that the I words ran out of his month like filth from a We him how ho had prospered financially since he came to he in this miserable little one-horse town came here two years ago with I have accumulated sinco I came and I am now over six hundred dollars in Every every early or late every failure in or every and in everything bad that had happened in for the two years he had lived there he magnified and enlarged till some of our party wanted to get out of the town before train Just ns the blacksmith was pouring oat his venom the strongest the land agent and said to our little with Us to a blacksmith shop in another portion of the and before we reached it we heard the anvil ring and the cheerful song of the man who swung the When wo arrived at the shop we saw a young man about 27 years busily engaged in welding a wagon When he saw ho made a ec t wel d and t h 0 a e was straight and just the right he stood it against the eaino over to where we stood watching Wm and what can I do for The land agent blacksmith's I Want you to tell these gentlemen from how you have prospered since you camo to and how you like the people The blacksmith little over two ears ago my wife just left our homes in Iowa and came to I had tools as you see and these with just enough furniture to keep house with wo brought with When we arrived here wo had fifty dollars in T rented an old wagon In one end I put my forge and in the other end I fitted up a living I then went to work in dead and soon had plenty of the farmers soon saw I had an interest in the town the country and brought their to land agent sold mc this lot where my shop the next door where my home now ITe gave plenty of time to pay for and help lumber for for my my ed me to buy It only took house and me a few days to build my shop minute since md every spare then I put in working on I have a see mv you comfortable little We home in old hated to leave our Iowa because the people there were so kind to us and such but I knew more advantages there were so many for a young man in the west than he could possibly find iu have found the people in even better than those we left in Through the and patronage of the people here I have a nice a good business and will soon be out of As the blacksmith was talking along in the above a neat looking young woman with a baby her arms came to the side door of the shop and dinner is At this we thanked for his talk and went hack to the Snyder had rison per cent in our everything looked bet- the stores and the on the the clerks in and the children returning from all had a happy smile and all seemed to hold out a glad hand of they seemed to come to and is a good for a The lessons by the Snyder blacksmiths should ho a to We usually find what we are looking If we are looking for had bad and we usually find If a person wants to know what kind of neighbors he what his neighbors what his neigh-hors and how he likes his let him look in the Everything wo or is a reflection of John Hash saw that his neigh-hors in Ohio were had and when he came to Snyder they vera It was not John Hash s neighbors that were netting it was John The acts of his neighbors were a of own On another occasion with a Party of home-seekers from Ne we we had had a a man man of of we got to calling When we left Grand Isay Grumpy biegan to The cars were too hot or toj he did not like the and he got in a row the conductor because he would not let him spit on the ITe kicked at the lunch his put up for him and howled at the coffee he got at the lun in Wyoming was no and the person who stated that Cheyenne and Laramie ivere beautiful little was a We arrived in er Valley the next Grumpy complained about his breakfast and growled because the mountain shaded the early morning He snarled ati the conveyance the land pany furnished to show him the and whined at tie 1 dust in the It cool just right for 1 At about 10 in the morning we drove up on Point Lookout a spot overlooking the Bear River And like Moses j of we viewed the By the of crops and scientific fanning down through the centuries from Moses to Utah we more productive and beautiful valley than did Wo were delighted and earned away by the wonderful saw the Wasatch Mountains on the who lofty summits feet above the valley wore white crowns as emblems of and protection to the beautiful valley at their These mountains seemed to from some undiscovered the north and extended ward till their beauty was 1 in the hazy dimness of a 1 summer The great canal almost at our ftp life to ti which gave liquid the and corn fill land line of which separated main awkward F rain farmer of the past irrigation farmer of the cut As our eyes followed in places it would J den behind high embankment A or projecting or lost J in foliage on its banks and then it would come out in the open fields where the bright noon-day sun shone on its clear H till it looked like a u thread of pure We saw that the bear River Valley was truly a garden of the and more beautiful than the hang-I ing gardens of The songs of the lark land the robin j came to our delighted ears like sweet chimes in some distant Our nostrils were filled with the fragrant aroma of the 1 alfalfa more spicy than the perfumes from the vineyards of i And thus we stood wrapped t in wonder and admiration at the most gorgeous panorama that man could look At last Grumpy discovered some-thing he was looking and pointing in its direction I'll bet that that old dead horse way down there in the sage brush stinks worse than a Chicago glue We have too many John Hashes and in Brother C. Goodwin is a fair Ever since he has lived in Utah he grumbled at his and kicked at everything in His paper is filled with and Hie would rather see Joseph F. Smith or Heber J. Grant put in jail than to see contentment and come to Salt Like the Ministerial devil fish he lives on contention and and is always looking for a stinking dead Read the back numbers of his little knocker and satisfy Yours V. S. in |