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Show wheat an J several acres of oats; ' he also has an acre of sugar i beets. His home is a cement block, six-room house, anil surrounded sur-rounded by a real nice lot of tree. These trees of Josh's adorn the premises far more tha we usually concede, for they add to the beauty of the place, i-ive it a tone that would be utterly ut-terly lacking, and add to the real monetary value of his land. 1 broke bread with Josh on Kaster Sunday, and enjoyed the little peep allowed me of the homejlife. We all know, far better than I can write it that Josh has done his share toward this country coming here from Lyman, in Wayne county, he left a good home and good property prop-erty to meat the call for settlers here, and to upbuild this community. com-munity. You know that h has lived fully up to his duty; that he has worked faithfully, hard, and constantly. And while he has a nice place about him, and will grow into some means, yet it is no other than a fitting fit-ting reward. And Oh, say! Somehow it seems to me that I ride a hobby horse around here a good deal my failing being cows and pigs. Tosh and the good wife are patterned pat-terned after my soul, for they quite agree with me. Josh had pigs, he had a bunch of them when pigs were worth while. Gradually the herd was cut down, though he now has seven on the premises. But when it comes to the cow Mrs. Cook told me all about it. Told what living they made for her family-how family-how the farm was practically kept up by the cows, and stakes her all in all on them. The good wife swears by the cows, and adds by actual fact, what to me is mere theory, of the worth of the cow to the farmer. Josh has on the premises but hush! the assessor is around, so we'll wait till another time. We'll talk about things that a man can't be taxed for of those sixty some odd fruit trees adjacent ad-jacent to the house, of the tamarack tam-arack hedge, and of the wealth Josh has of the old time of the days when Utah was young. Josh was born in '57, when Utah was a ten year old, and has struck flints together into a box of cotton to get fire remember? when the match first came out,-and out,-and what they cost, too. Has seen the Indians in the old fort at Nephi, surely and on the rampage, ram-page, taunting the citizens with a much too fresh white scalp dangling from a pole, sneeringly thrust into open doors and windows, win-dows, as the painted braves made demonstration' of ill will. Josh has seen wool sell for 4Jc as against the 28c it brings this year. He himself has been on a mission two years in Nebraska and Iowa, and a son spent four years in Samoa. As we get a sugar factory, and land comes to its own, if an, land around here will draw down $160 to $200 per acre, then surely sure-ly that land of Josh Cook's situated situ-ated U9 it is Hush, hush, nearly put the assessor wise. ' I wish Josh all the success that his sixty years of youth entitles him to, and hope his rewards will be ample. For by such as he was young Utah built into the Utah we know today. Frank Beck with. The Cook Farm Speaking of nice homes and the growth of the Delta country, Joshua H. Cook has forty acres on the north edge of town that deserves mention. He has here a l.ttle farm, ideally located, just a nvle from Clark Street, our principal thoroughfare, only a stone's throw from the elevator, and the track of the spur line of the railroad runs on the south edge of his land. He has eighteen eight-een acres of alfalfa, which is a good stand; a nice patch of |