Show The Country Columnist By O. O W. W Nielson That was a fine well deserved tribute the boys uptown gave H Henry ry J Jensen r sen in last weeks week's paper Here is one we clipped out of oi an Arizona paper We thought it might apply around here Gods word is just like a highway stop sign you dont don't have to pay any attention to It It-if It if you dont don't c care re what happens happens happens hap hap- pens to you you Those warm warl days last week were pretty exciting Makes you want to to do things in the flower garden that must not be I done just yet It sure looks like another wonderful year for forthe forthe forthe the folks who like to work with the thc i soil A lot of moisture Inthe in inthe inthe the ground buds and plants v ready to spring up everywhere Hope ve we dont don't have a frost We Wc have been hearing q quite ite itea a lot of talk about that Gooseberry Gooseberry Goose Goose- berry rry water project up cast east of Fairview Before we go any farther we would like you to know that we e it goes through r gh this time S gems ems like that water pro pro- proS project pro S sect was talked about as' as far Lack Laek as 1900 And we we could never rever understand just why no noone one one started to do any digging This project Isn't much different different different dif dif- ferent from the project the late lace Chris Larson put over through the Horseshoe rim east cast of Ephraim But there is one big difference The folks up there must have not wanted the extry water bad enough to really really really real real- ly get going after it Chris Larson needed the Horseshoe water and wanted it bud bad enough to get get It Chris Chris' Larson had one one thing ve very vey y few men have Faith in himself During World War One when he lie couldn't hire any help he put his boys young boys then to work When sOme farmers of our ourtown ourtown ourtown town were talking about buying si some me sha shares es in the Larson project project project pro- pro one farmer was heard to remark Chris is broke and he be will have to quit Then we can i get it for nothing Chris Larson was broke several several sev sev- eral times but he didn't quit One of his favorite expressions was vas I am not beat until I quit and Ill I'll never quit And he didn't quit The history of the Chris Larson Lar Larson son project ct is really she uie saga of our age and it should be written and pr preserved s so that tha tl those ose who are to come can learn what one man who v had un unlimited unlimited un- un limited faith in himself could do The Country Columnist |