Show A RICH REGION hail to dixie says the deseret news warm tribute paid to this section we noticed in a previous article on the southern settlements of utah that the pioneers went there in obedience to tho the call of duty and undertook the heroic Bt struggle ruggle for the redemption demp tion of the desert their achievements in this respect are truly wonderful today as is you approach any of these settlements tho the silence of the surrounding desert is still the same but the well tilled fields the thriving stock the bursting haystacks hay bay stacks the tile many colored and glistening fruits including tho the fig and the pomegranate all proclaim that hero here wo we have as macdonnell has observed the marks of a people in whom the materials nals of which heroes and heroines are made are plainly visible for though it is not usual to apply fine terms to the ch fracter qualities of a busy self reliant and self supporting people yet wherever such evidences of thrift and energy are shown and especially when shown in tho the desert the historian well knows that here wo no have a hardy and strong people and the best elements of a high civilization and there they havo hao laid the foundations of an empire the railroads creep near to the edge without yet penetrating this strange land chobe time plainly draws nigh the mild night air often ic le sounds with the bound of human voices in in song tho the breezes sigh ill in a music that is like some wine pleasant lullaby shelleys Shel leys balmiest bal sigh that vernal zephyrs breathe in eNen evenings ings car were discord to the speaking quietude that is wont to wrap the move mon eles scenes of night in tins quiet place or if natures sounds are heard through these dreamy solitudes with their balmy nights they become like music of tile bouth acab music that genther on tho the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes music that bring sweet sleep down from the blis ful skies the vegetation is half mexican half western in character the wild gourd plant with great heart shaped leaves lies in patches on oil the ground the indian tobacco plant n with ith sticky leaves and white flos flowers vers grows grosss everywhere in small bun bunches clies the two kinds of YUCCA the tile big and the slender one both being spanish bayonets the so soap ip plants of ane indans everywhere adorn the rocky slopes and dry sands the utah agave or century plant is not rare there is s the tree like bush cactus covered with spines that arc are sheathed and doubly terrible if fording secure nesting places for the desert sparrow the wild matrimony vino vine with slen slender dr thorns and red berries on oil its curved stems the devils horn with two long hooked claws the screw bean also thorny and with nith leaves leases and screw shaped pods the a thorny shrub similar to the screw bean with long pods from which the indians made their nour the straight wil loss lowy y wands of the arrow bush from which the indian arrow shafts were nere made the creeping J Janas town is weed ced with its immense flos flowers Ners and bura burs I 1 the creosote bush or evergreen of pung pungent nt odor and with nith strange medicinal properties the oplie cp hedra dra or squaw tta ti a a shrub abo c jointed leaves were oneo largely exported as a specific fur for a ditale that ought to be nameless the ever pre tent greasewood shad scalo and saltbush salt bush tho the introduced tamarisk mansk ti yew like and a good forage now practically indigenous these are some of the more prominent vegetable curiosities that help to male make up tho the unique character chir acter of the strange looking landscape of summer bummer and winter but the spring is a paradise of bloom and perfume the whole earth being then carpeted with herbage and flowers here the tile snowdrop and then tho the violet 2 arise from tho tile ground with tile warm rain anet et and their breath is mixed ith the odor sent from the turf like the voice and tho tile instrument 11 IV we 0 ba have v c said that to settle this land aias a task to be set only for real heroes and heroines and the sturdy colonists who succeeded in this attempt have von inon a deathless fame that is not yet engra on on stone nor cast in the bronze of mcm onal tablets yet that fame is secure being written as 03 it were upon tho the hearts of their fel fellowmen at tho the recent fruit festi al in st george the tables groaned under heaps of peaches thit that blushed with the delicate luster of rare juiciness within grapes in large clusters of purple and gray pears of wondrous size and lusciousness apples pears I 1 pomegranates melons figs almonds almost all of the temperate and semitropical semi bean tropical varieties were there inviting transport to colder climes where the people are so hungry for these delicious products for dixie fruits are ho married souls of soil and water the ideal union of air and sunshine they hao lime been bien literally perfected in reg cl open air factories these fields tilled and watered by human industry how rich and populous this region will become when once its products can bo shipped to tile worlds market 1 and now as in duty bound wo we salute this lind land of brive brave and loal men of fair and noble women As wo we review with mingled feelings the story of their trials and as we sic look forward to the better day that evidently them wo ive feel to sa within real zest hail to dixie 1 may her bons sons be as N wise vise and brave her daughters as chaste and fair as were the fathers fat liers and mothers who sho braved this burning wilderness and thus made possible thit that ultimate redemption of the desert areas w inch is now tho the hope of practical aland and brainy men may the luster of their deeds never be ob obscured cured by the prosperity of the tile present or the prom promises aises of the future and ma anny these bo be all that her children desire I 1 despret news |