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Show ABOUT A TOWN WITH A FUTURE MOUNT PLEASANT By J. M. BOYDEN This is the day of the agriculturist of the farmer, if you please the day when the "man with the hoe" has surely come into his own. It is the day when the man who grows grain or garden truck, pigs or poultry, poul-try, sheep or stock is the man of all men to be reckoned with he is the man to whom you must bow down about things financial, things Industrial, Indus-trial, trifling things like those you must have if you keep on living, and politics. The banker, merchant or professional profes-sional man does not head the proces sion today as he once did. He i" trailing along behind now, taking thr dust from the wheels of the band wagon in which this erstwhile downtrodden down-trodden knight of the pitchfork and plow rides with the grace and dignity dig-nity of the purple to which he is now' born, his banner a sheaf of beautiful golden grain, his purpose progress, and his slogan "Close to Mother Earth." All of which is apropos to the statement that Mount Pleasant, Utah and the northern portion of the beau tiful Sanpete Valley, of which the said Mount Pleasant is the hub and all of which is .located about 100 miles south of Salt Lake City on the (Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, If strictly a farming community, which, in these times, is about as, good s thing in a material way as you can say about any town or county ot community. Mount Pleasant, Utah, and the farming community t surrounding it has been coming down, through thf ages steadily and reguarly, withou' blare of trumpets or beating of drum? to call the attention of the world's in habitants to the multitudnous advan-tages advan-tages and opportunities it may have cr may have not possessed. Because why? Simply because, like many other strictly farming communities, it has not been right ceVtain it had a great many of these highly desirable attributes to pass around after If own had been taken care of, meaning particularly, opportunities, because i' has had advantages for all people. However, this particular portion o the great State of Utah, notwithstanding notwith-standing its modesty and backward ness in proclaiming to the world It' own good opinion of itself and iff possessions and its possible shor' comings in the way of opportunitie1 fnr V. ,. 1 1 lu, uic maaoca, uas always ueen pros perous. Its inhabitants are progres sive and decidedly abreast of the times. It has of necessity depended upon those who till the soil and follow fol-low kindred pursuits to furnish the wherewithals of life, the sinews of war and the things required in the pursuit of happiness: and these tillers till-ers of the soil have not failed to meet every occasion, even In the old days In the beginning of this new year Mount Pleasant and its surrounding territory finds itself differently situ ated in the matter of opportunities it pleases this writer to say, and it is not going to be backward about saying so to all who care to listen. It has them now, these opportunities, in abundance, not only for the home-folk home-folk and the boys and girls growing up, but for the stranger either within with-in or without its gates who might be in seach of something of the kind The difference between the present and the past in this respect can be easily accounted for. There are three reasons for it. First, because of the tremendous wave of prosperity which has swept over and fairly engulfed all farming communities, including in a marked degree this one, and which makes three or four prosperous homes possible pos-sible now where but one was before; In nthnp nmprta nrl,nn4 nt 1 HA bushel, potatoes at 1.50 per bushel, hay at $15 per ton and sugar beets at $7 per ton make it possible for a good farmer on a good little hrm to do better today than he could have done or, a farm three times as large -n few years ago. That means intensive in-tensive farming vith splend; I results re-sults o.i small farms, with room for three limes as rcany farmers, with their attendant homes, business institutions, in-stitutions, etc. The bringing under successful 'lal. . hit.- of thous;vdr. of acres of , dry-farm land nea1- .Mount Pierian', giving remunerative employment to hundreds of persons and brinfiri; ,in-Id ,in-Id the conmunitv Im.- oreos or thousands thou-sands of dollars annually, which is an achievement of the past f"W years, is the second reason for iwo opportunities oppor-tunities now where there was but half a one before. These thousands of acres are not only opportunities ir. and of themselves, but they are Indirectly the cause of many others, as they are drawing from every walk of life, their devotees leaving positions posi-tions of all kinds for the simple but glorious lire they furnish; and eve-y one of these positions is left behind, an opportunity for someone else. And yet one more, perhaps the moBt important of all, is a new sugar factory scheduled to go into service near Mount Pleasant in 1917. About EOOO acres' have been contracted to grow beets for this institution so far; two or three times as many more acres are here ready for the same treatment. ; Farmers only are needed need-ed to get all this land, perhaps the ;best in the United States for sugar-beet sugar-beet growing, into this highly profitable profit-able service. Most of it can be bought or leased at a reasonable figure. Opportunities: mere are Hundreds Hun-dreds of them here, not only right -n and around Mount PleaBant, but 1 1 1 up and down the Sanpete Valley. i!t is still the "ground floor" here; wouldn't you like to "get In on it"? Homeseekers are welcome; they are 'vanted. Smaller farms will be the rule from now on. Hundreds of fhem are here begging for owners; the sugar factory is begging for the beets which they can raise. Are there any farmers with families without with-out farms, any place in this country? llf there are, let them look this way. The outlook here right now is better than that of any "tract opened for ettlement" ever heard of. Advantages! Look at the possessions posses-sions of Mount Pleasant, Utah, as a home town: A splendid grade pub-tic pub-tic school with fine buildings, equipment equip-ment and teachers'; the same words describe the public high school. A private boarding school, grades and high, under management of the Presbyterian Pres-byterian church, representing an outlay of about $100,000, first-class n every respect. Four . churches, horoughly up-to-date business 'louses of all kinds, manufacturing establishments, . first-class theater, beautiful dancing hall, railroad, telegraph tele-graph and telephone connections, telephone exchange, miles of paved sidewalks, hundreds of handsome residences, good water system with excellent water, first-class hospital, etc. What more can be said? If a man with small means who knows how to 'arm is looking for a home for him-lelf him-lelf and family, let him stop off a few-days few-days in Mount Pleasant, Utah, and look over the situation. He may trav el a long, long way and not find the equal of what he will find here. |