Deseret Evening News | 1908-06-25 | Page 4 | A Wealthy Indian

A 4 I Lon Len Hili ot of rex Is ho he to bI be the richest Indian in the world fhe Kansas CitY Star estimates ates his fortune itt It Ac According c cording to that paper lie ho owns moro more titan than acres o of the ho best hand in inthe the tho Rio nile Every toot foot of oC It can be Irrigated At time rate which other land In this section ot of time tho santo Is 20 per acro for tor this acres would not be nn an ex cx cC figure Len Ion Bill till the Star I proud of oC oChla hla bitt In Indian blood and II stranger Is not notions long ions In hl his presence the tho fact act is IA mn made known h by Mr I r Hili that he Is an 1111 Indian ThIs Indian has been able to take Inko care ot of ho wilt 1111 S1 Sal I 1 never have havo received anything rain the tho government and t I am not expect expecting Ing anything The marvelous thing about tile the great fortune which Hili now possesses I is that ho huns hilI It nil alt the tho last six years lIe at le mites miles below u a little snore moro than six years ago That was II a railroad hall hiatt been built into the reg region Ion ho he had got Kot well In inthe the tho border town she In than began the tho work or of capital to build II a to the place and liS as eAch mile of at track was WILS corn com the tho hand adjacent thereto therelo anti ami extending back for tor several miles came into demand for tor funning purposes and Its doubled trebled mind In n a abort time In time the meantime Lon Len BOI was more moreland land loading Un U wIth op lions ions Purchase to The which ho hind bought for tor 1 1 and l O Oan an ucro sucro we vent t to 6 5 an ere acre before timo railroad Ilal reached When time tho line Uno finished and th tho Influx ot of investors and began land values mounted higher and higher Lids Is run nil interesting stor story It II is IA not sue so VOr very long since the tho Indians were wera regarded IlS as Today Some ot of theme have risen to eminence In vail varl Otis directions The gulf gul savagery civilIzAtion Is evidently not Ito HO wide ns as tuomo somo have supposed It to be It do n t necessarily take ages to ascend front the lower level to 10 the nor to tram from tho th higher to the him lower Human beings era utter after nil vel Very much alike ove every everywhere where hero lit III intellectual powers