Show the knocker N io has lost faith in brigham city as a city of destiny and who has been pouring out his spleen whenever he has had a chance ought to take like a ride about town now thank the lord however there are mighty lew few it if any of the above class of 0 individuals divi duals in this community but should there be any who are pessimistic a few observations about the city and its environs would soon scon put him in tile the optimistic bunch tho the writer was vas out driving the other evening and happened over across the creek onto the flat the very air in that part of the city was teeming with industry bees were buzzing buzzi uJ among the fruit trees green sage saga and wherever they could find something to their liking the birds were flitting everywhere and the husbandman was in ill much evidence laboring in the or cn coards ards the ino fine plats of peach orchards ads berry patches and plowed lands being made ready for 1 or spring seed was an inspiration the trees are full of bursting buds which must be closely guarded now for a season to prevent the frost from killing them and on every side was in an air of pios far up on the hill side beautiful rich black soil which had recently been turned over by the plowman was vas gleaming in ili tile the rays of the setting sun still and that that brought to mind the possibilities that are almost bobill less of vineyards arid and orchards up on oa the various benches thit that skirt the mountains mr john 11 II bott is steadily climb in ing the mountain side with his plow bringing into subjection acres ot of choice lands for fruit culture some of which even produces grain without Irrig irrigation atio n mr bott has really worked a Nond wonderful erful transformation on his hillside place tile the extent of which can call hardly be appreciated without visiting the premises but the point is this only a few years ago some people thought tile the scheme of utilizing tile the moun mountain tala sides and bench lands for orchard purposes was wholly impracticable while today to day those who nho have stuck to their convictions and cultivated their lands are surrounding th themselves with the comforts ea and the lux luxuries urles of 0 life and the pessimist is kicking himself because the other fellow is succeeding there ire are acres and acres of tile the choicest kind of land lying dormant to the north and south ol of the canyon along the benches arid and moun mountain tain side which are available for cultivation and which some day will be worth as much as the best orchard land ln caged in the valley below we understand that clr joseph V F hansen intends planting a large acreage of his property on reservoir hill to vineyards this year which will 0 only be a beginning of what can and will be done in the very near future A little farther to the south mr L P johnson has for a number of years successfully grown peaches aud arid lucern that looked almost good enough tor for man to eat any kind of vegetables and fruits nourish flourish in abundance on ills his hillside place continuing in a little farther south are to be found the stretching acres of orchards of snow watkins and others which yield their bounteous crops every every year cut but there nrc are many many acres ot or choice land that simply lie and reflect the rays of the sun from spring to autumn and from autumn to spring again land that will respond as readily to tile touch of the husbandman and yield is as large crops as any that has now been brought under cultivation and is paying big dividends young men who want to carve i name for themselves in the industrial and social world dont need to run away from home to find an opportunity for it is right here god has created the world and so ordained that this section of it should be a ble blees essl habitation tor for man arid and now it is up to us to make good it can caell easily be done for keeping everlastingly at it will win will out every time arid and by harnessing the elements in the earth and water which in other words means to cultivate and irrigate the ground gr ouirl planting the seed in the season thereof giving that attention necessary to tile the growing crops god will surely give the increase arid and lie he who mabes hakea the effort will be rewarded an hundred fold young men pessimists and all go to there Is room tor for everybody and by a united effort father time ilni will hii not have to reap real many harvests ere cre I 1 wo we w will all have tile the sai satisfaction of seeing our fair city stand in in tile the very front ranks of fruit culture til ili this great country of ours |