Show ELBERT HUBBARD AND UTAH ono one of the big mon men who went down with the lusitania was elbert bibert hubbard who had won a reputation as one of 0 tile the most prolific and forceful writers of t the twentieth century hubbard b ar d was son on his way to seek an interview with the kaiser not that the kalser kaiser had sent tor for him but because lie hs saw the news value of such an interview in his publications since the beginning ot of the war hubbard had been bitter in his denunciation of tile the kaiser whom lie he charged with lifting the lid off hell by a strange trick of 0 tate fate he tell fell a victim to the war machinery ot of the man he abused hubbard was a rare type of genius business and literary man and lie he made a success ju in every department there is probably no man mail living today who is so familiar with big men and big events in every part of the united states as was elbert hubbard Hu he spoke and wrote of every state in the union with knowledge that w would do credit to a native son A w week eek before he left new york on his ill fated trip the following article on utah appeared in the chicago examiner under his name ame vegetables fruits and flowers here are found in a profusion not to be found anywhere else in the world for this let us thank the genius of brigham young who was a civil engineer and the first man in america to put irrigation on a scientific basis to this one thing does utah owe her health wealth and prosperity it is all a matter of labor and ana water intelligently li applied to land all dining cars stop here to restock their larders at all seasons of the year you will find on the depot platforms great boxes and baskets of celery cucumbers cauliflower and spinach strawberries plums peaches apples and pears are also seen in great abundance and variety the mormons cormons sought the par far west in order to enjoy religious freedom misunderstood persecuted religious religions fanaticism drove them afield like the israelites of old they sought a promised land the band of mormons cormons that first entered the great salt lake valley consisted of one hundred and forty three men three women and three children with dinty seven horses and fifty head of cattle they had made a severe tortuous dangerous march across the pharies pr aries the plains the desert and thru the denies defiles of the mountains worn weary some of them sick the great stretching valley looked to them like paradise here they would rest they arrived july 24 1847 and here was the valley smiling olacio beautiful beyond words at their feet they had brought along a few garden bews lettuce beets onions and one man had a dozen potatoes that he had carried all these thousand miles from saint joe missouri another had a peck of oats another a halt half bushel of wheat but the very first morning after they had reached salt lake valley nalley these hardy pioneers with faith plus that this was indeed the promised land set to work and planted their potatoes corn and garden seeds they brought water in their hats from the dashing mountain stream As they planted they also prayed fe for r there were very great doubts as to whether these seeds would spring into being and evolve and grow and blossom and ripen seeing his men carrying water brigham young set to work to dig v a flitch ditch gently diverging from the mountain stream it was a simple proposition and the most meat natural in the world in two days this ditch was watering ten acres and that ditch was the first attempt at irrigation on the north american continent these people set to work at once building log houses they would travel no farther roam no more here would they rest this would be their home their prayers were answered as the prayers of labor always are in three days the seeds began to burst up thru the soil in a week the potatoes had sprouted and the corn oats and wheat were reaching out toward the sunshine and these exiles laughed aloud and wept in joy and sung the songs of zion god was surely on their side the wheat oats corn and potatoes they raised were vere not used this first year zealously jealously every kernel ol of corn cam and wheat was saved as well as every potato the next spring these were planted careful records were kept of all these experiments and behold this second year these people raised a thousand bushels of corn a thousand bushels of wheat hundreds hurd hur reds ot of bushels of potatoes and great crops of meu mel ons beans peas and other garden vegetables et ables arhe principle had been proven water applied to land was making the desert to blossom like the rose the waste places were being road made green the fruit trees were growing and flourishing and the promise of harvest was on every side they were rich because adv one Is rich who has shelter abundant food and fuel and opportunity to work in the year eighteen hundred and forty nine two years after the mor mar mons reached sart san lake when there was a great rush of gold seekers lo 10 california the argonauts all stoked at salt lake to rest and refresh themselves here they found fruits and vegetables in abundance also butter and eggs but butter was a dollar a pound and eggs a dollar a dozen strawberries were fifty cents a quart prices were maintained and in utah tor for twenty years butter was a dollar a pound and eggs a dollar a dozen with no fluctuation in price n no 0 competition no endeavor to bull th the e market and no no desire on the part of the bears to depress it brigham young said to his people 1 if I you mine tor for gold a few of you will die rich but most ot of you will die poor but it you teed feed the miners who hunt tor for gold all of you will get rich the business of 0 the mormons cormons was to teed feed the miners the mormons cormons were the advance guard ot of civilization tio n every few months there were n new ew acquisitions to this colony in the promised land up and down the valley the farmers settled men women and ch children lIdren and especially ally women homeless women friendless discontented women found here a sanctuary a place ot of rest a place to work a place to worship god in sincerity and in truth Drig brigham ham young was not only a prophet but was also a business man a civil engineer an economist and best of all lie he was ballasted ballested bal lasted with great common sense examiner |