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Show What Lies Ahead The skeptics tell us that our future fu-ture Is mostly behind us, that Mt. Pleasant and Sanpete county cannot can-not come back, or at least not for a long, long time. Their Index fingers fin-gers point dlrefully toward the lact that our banks are closed, the sheep industry is on the rocks, the farms are not what they used to be. ' So," they lament, "we might as well walk out of the town and shut the gates behind us." Somehow, their logic fails to be convincing. This is a community peopled by descendants of pioneers. Many of the doughty souls who first settled here had forsaken all their material possessions in the old country, had braved the hazards haz-ards of a six weeks' ocean voyage on unseaworthy vessels hich had about three legs in Davy Jones' locker, and had then trekked across the plains towing handcarts hand-carts or trudging alongside oxcarts. ox-carts. And when they reached Zlon, what did they find? Nothing but a desert. Theirs was the task of making that desert "to blossom blos-som like a rose." They started with absolutely nothing, save faith and courage, but they did the job Now we have. a community with beautiful homes, paved sidewalks, excellent educational and religious religi-ous equipment, municipal waterworks water-works system and electric lights serve every home. Contrast what we have with what the pioneers had when they came here. Take time off to talk to a few of the remaining survivors of those first groups who came here. Then let's sit down and thin!-; the thing through. When our ancestors an-cestors built as they did with nothing but wasteland and wilderness wilder-ness for a foundation, what can't we do with the foundation laid down for us? No bank? We'll have one In the not too distant future. Poor crops? Nature is sometimes lavish, sometimes stingy, and always al-ways has been; we can adjust t that. We can moke the future pay big dividends. All we need is the faith and courage of the pioneers |