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H- H i 2 T fi t i i i Dads Dad's l T 1 I Column 1 i z H HH H Moo I I HERE IS Spring and here Is May Hand Band In hand they walk together Down the variable way In their fragrant blossom weather Lilac weighs upon the bough Tulips open to the sun Furrows raised behind the plow Like a copper freshet run Spring has turned the frozen heel Of or winter and a field and anci wood Once In Icy torpor feel Warmth and find rind It good Marguerite Janvrin Adams liE HE LIVED IllS HIS LIFE un AND NEVER XE KNEW TilE THE THINGS THAT HE JlE COULD DO HOW TRUE that is of or the tens of or thousands of or human beings So many go goto goto goto to their graves never knowing what great talents ability they t ey had which went w nt undiscovered vered unknown We sometimes amaze ourselves In find find- finding findIng ing out our real ability and what we really can do when we try Show me methe methe methe the man or woman who Is ambitious continually trying they are the ones who discover their true selves and the abilities therein concealed They and they only are the ones who achieve success In life Ufe and reach their goal Peter J. J Shea o o o oA A 4 TRIBUTE TO I YOUNG lOUNG I BRIG BRIGHAM HAM YOUNG was a colonizer without equal In the history of or America In a desert that nobody wanted and that was wa universally considered a fit home only for coyotes and rattlesnakes he planted In iii thirty years over three hundred and fifty towns and created the technique and made the surveys for others One hundred of or those towns were colonized in the first ten years when transportation was fearfully dif dl- difficult dif dif- difficult and expensive when the nearest source of or many essential supplies was over a thousand miles mUes away Methodi Methodi- Methodically Methodically cally call as If It he were sticking pins In a a. map he founded villages at all the strategic points of his empire and by 1855 eight years after the arrival of or the first pioneers he had virtually taken possession of or a territory larger than Texas He lIe had spread the town out from Salt Lake City through Salt Lake and Weber valleys alleys reached down Into Utah valley alley Jumped the Wasatch to colonize Sanpete valley southeast of or Salt Lake He had planted a precarious outpost on the Colorado river at what is now Moab had bad overleaped the Weber valley I settlements by two two- hundred and- and fifty miles to establish a mission colony at Fort Lemhi In the Salmon river moun moun- moun-I moun of or Idaho lie He had frozen out Jim Jun Bridger and the mountain men ana founded a pair of or supply stations Fort F rt Bridger and Fort Supply on the trans trans- transcontinental transcontinental continental trail In Wyoming thereby assuring himself control of or the eastern approach to Zion He had bad sprung clear across the Great Basin deserts to locate the Mormon station now Genoa under the shadow of or the Sierra on on the emigrant road to California More Important than any of or thes was the string of or settlements run run- running ning south and west from Salt Lake I City along the Spanish Trail later i known as the Mormon Road and now Highway 91 from Salt Lake to Los An An- I geles There was a special reason for the colonies and missions at Fillmore Par- Par Paragonah Cedar City Harmony Santa Clara Las Vegas Vega and San Ber Ber- nardino Most of ot them were stages In the Mormon Morma n Corridor the outlet to the sea San Sari Bernardino had been planned as asan an outfitting point for Saints Saints' Journey- Journey JourneyIng Ing lag to Zion The trip by wagon across the plains was difficult and dangerous slow and expensive Brigham conceived of ot a route by boat to Panama across the Isthmus by whatever means could be made available and by boat again up to San Diego which would be the principle e port serving the Mormon Em Em- pire The trail trall from San Diego to Salt Lake City was Comparatively easy and reasonably safe ure and could be traveled L at any time of or the year By means of or Its use Brigham hoped to keep the I Influx of or Saints steady Instead of having tho the heavy Immigration arrive in the valley during a few weeks of the late summer and fall Wallace Wallace In Mormon Country L. L. L D. D S. S Truth o o I MOTHER After all all hes he's only a boy and boys will sow their wild oats Father I wouldn't mind at all if It ho lie Just didn't mix in BO so much rye o o o MONEY MOSEY IS SEEDED NEEDED FOIl FOU THEE SPEAKING S BEFORE the annual meet meet- meetIng ing lag of or the Idaho Mining Association In Boise Ira B. B Joralemon San Francisco mining engineer told his listeners ners that only through free enterprise will the United States discover new sources of or ore Said Mr Joralemon As soon as the government again makes prices high enough so 50 that the prospector will profit from finding ore we will open up new deposits of or lead zinc and cop- cop per I do not think that a handful of or bureaucrats will find the pro pre for us Free enterprise must also freedom for speculative money to flow now Into mining ventures The government bureaucrats are said Enid to be when man loses his lila money in a min mm- ing lag or oil venture but they arc ore seem seem- happy to see the gullible lose their money on the race tracks of or the nation Salaries of or the bureaucrats come In part from the governments government's cut of or money There is one thing about metal mining that Is 18 well understood understood there there is la no clearer money than that produced by tho metal mines of or the nation What is true of or the mining Industry Is also true of or every other Industry in the United States They will not pros pros- prosper prosper per In any other manner than the man man- manner manner ner ncr In tn which they attained original suc sue cess through case through free enterprise enterprise and and they thel wilt will not expand minus the profit tive Neither a handful of or bureaucrats 1 I nor a million bureaucrats can create creat prosperity either in the mining Industry r Continued on Page Four Dads Dad's Column Continued from fr m Page Pace Pa e One or any other Industry Prosperity is based upon production and a general j earning capacity capa ty sufficient to absorb i ithe the production both of or which are the tho I I products of or free initiative and enter 1 enter enter- motivated by the prospects of ot I profit Denver Denver Mining Record I I HAD been sitting in the doctors doctor's waiting room for tor a long time Every chair chair I IVas was V filled and some patients were I standing There was desultory conversa conversa- conversation conversation conversation tion but after awhile a silence fell and nd we wo sat waiting wafting waiting waiting waiting Fin Fin- Finally Finally Finally and stood up wearily ally an old man remarked Well I guess Ill I'll go home and die cUe a natural death Readers Reader's Readers Reader's Dig Dig- est |