| Show A TYPICAL jilly CITY another echo of iaci iJ lagi ci 0 battue day I bilile liell ilium tine public In lilic triflis tri flit 1 awl 1 as IKS q aill annl I 1 I 1 dolent llon copt ite N I itol K men who ho know the hom kelton tonn to st george aa thit richfield I 1 is a typical city of utah ut ah if it i is then the st ite of ut rutih III may be congratulated about a hunched members of the legislature legis liture itura vent ilon Febu 16 ind and thy to lit t m me go along a kindness for which I 1 shall cei thank them ind the rio grinde lom corn p piny parn arn which aich pron provided idad all the tr inscor tation and some of the no thoughtful ni min in lin cm tatt th it hundred and fifty lift miles through the alleys of the st ite A without ith 0 ut picturing something om ething of thi flit future one look at that soil much of f it immense immensely 13 fertile much of it under cultivation much of it proving the lccy alnee of its quality ind fancy whit hit h it tin OIL region will kill look like in hilf i a whon when wo nc who he love loc it in the promise will kill hae pissed awl ani and those thit see the will nill leei bf be able to know thes aiom chii aich the country his idan Ld d by the nav ili want it an excellent thing it would be if ont on could like lic fic centuries or so bo liob abl noni of us v I 1 be any more N willing illing to make i i final bow boi and signal foi the curtain then than we vc are now nov but what a bould bt b unfolded before the ees ebes of the man of fie hundri hundred d 5 cat cais s I 1 and yet et it is a question of accomplishment life in america has become 0 o lapid 1 I 1 flight that he who inho lives to three store score years and ten and has kept his e acs cs open has seen been far moie than 1 his I eldern elder in the worlds history could hac witnessed if they had been present at even stige hom airston moor to the fall of mukden life is measured in ehnts with in n the lifetime of men who nho were on th thit hit it richfield train the nall lab hae bae een won from the hostile indians did not summon the riches of 01 ni ture turc from the boil did not take ad altage lantage of the resources that surrounded them did not make any betler ler the earth than they the found it and here within the life time ol of nan b no means old the desert has blossomed the houses have already in an appearance of that age N w aich test ies fies establishment the suri ouno ling prove proe that tho the farm has leen profitable the school houses show that the children hane re not been and the churches dem nt thit here in the plains plain so lately abely won non florn savage ge st rollers the have hane looked from nature up 0 o god quite ree recently antly there has been a d deal said in the public prints ind and in the hardly so 0 o public platform lectures about the counti eo on the abject of uplifting the american merican lome at the stations along the line f the rio grande were nere gath gathered ered scores and in some instance hundreds of f the people mostly the spectators spectator abie cie noung people and I 1 looked at them and w ordering fordering chere the uplifting of their home should begin there have never neer been clearer eed nomen n girls from sixteen to twenty t ears thin than NN were ere at amari aln in fork at mantl manti at salin salmi i and the he other stations they are dres dressed ed plainly perhaps but there was nothing even aven suggesting the compulsion of it discomfort or of poverty the nere A ere above aboc all things in appearance lappy happy and pure rind ind those bos looking with wide aes ies at the men they the had been hearing about the legislators of their state of it whom horn their elders had spoken u ei e a is clean of life as fortunate lort in the homec lomei is as the girls every ery one of them is i tribute to the good that 1 is in utah they are arc the bet best product if f 1 i I country that was aas indian land half a century ago ind and they give the best assurance on earth of the advancement that will be made in the next fifty years nears the advance that has really only begun TAKE THE TRIP INT IN 1907 I 1 expect to live line about half of a half century ventury longer and I 1 arn am going to ride down don the RIO kio grande some day when nhen it will be double tracked all the way when every inch of land between the mountain ranges will be profitably farmed fanned when there nill mill be barns like those thoe of berks caunt county penn when the houses will be handsome c of stone when the highways will be all natural macadam the depots will nill be works arks of art and the throngs thrones on the platforms will be these ame bo s and girls I 1 saw saturday just groin crown older and bigger and broad broader Lr ind and as true in their love of the state and the nation as they are arc loyal loval in their innocent faith in the future today richfield to a man accustomed to th the c cities of the farther eft is a good acil of a i lei clation that rid soil so would be regarded regard Ld na as dig discouraging courage in other mothr sections of the union but the man who he tool took me about town in his comfortable buggi dc declarer clares it atia is fertile the yield of it which one tin cm see in midwinter amter makes proof of his issenon and the orchards fj to the abundance of fruit which richfield has or may ha hive c with N ith the exercise by all of thi thrift which is evident iden tob b some there are good dwellings not big but pretty with generous lawns about them for richfield has not I 1 vet et felt the pinch of real estates fictitious values alues and there begins b gins thi testimony to the labors of women there lire are flowers clr drift hore hire with the little home decorations visible through the windows Nm doNs or displaced on the comfortable porches in the mild Febu weather meather which leealla the gentleness of i 1 winter in rionda thea the give g rae us a binquet in a school chool house thu thit school house would povl a model fur for miny m my a middle western cit it is complete throughout and testifies to the high ideals of the richfield men ind and women who han have the doing of things for the public flitting about behind us as we sat at tables N were ere the girls girl moro more of the tape we had seen eln along the line of travel the thea were so 0 o rosy in their health and so jo joyous ous in their ir manner so attentive tentie at so moved by bi a simple grace in ministering to our eints so prompt to recognize any of the little needs of the table that one made each mouthful a prayer for their happiness while they live lie ind and wished dished the day of their leaving leaning whit nhit had been so 60 good for them may fall very recognition OF THE ELDER WOMEN dhere wis u As another consideration back of the tables heaped with substantial stint ial food and w u ith fruit and fragrant with nith coffee was aas a battalion of women who he had spent das dabs of increasing weariness T ca preparing for the entertainment tain ment of Rich Rih fields guests one could see cadences ci cv dences of faithful housewife V ife work in e every cry moment of the dinner progressing and one could not but reflect when admiring the rosy cheeked checked girls who waited on table that back there in the farther rooms were the older women who had done the cooking who had bad done the mountain of carving and who would a little later have 04 two 0 or three mountains of dishes to wash clash I 1 want to pay my tri tribute bute to the elder women those who were akere not so ery cry mu much h in evidence while the festivities tivi ties were nere in progress and chos labor abor bane hav e been to make the e ent the Eruc success cess it Lerta certainly N was as my lat hat ih is off to them we enjoyed the ride all of us we enjoyed the sense of outing and release from work and care for a day and a night we enjoyed jo ed the successive rae sights of the louth auth and beauty of the valleys through v aich the train pas ed but we nie appreciated the fact that the work vork the head work of preparation and anda the greater work of tidying up when the guests were gone meant a good deal more may the shadows of those women omen k never grow less I 1 it was nas a good trip in every vaa wa utah people got better acquainted we who ho are not so old in the state learned earned something of utah that could be w learned in no other way than tra elling Nelling through the country and 11 eiery cry ore came back to the acan aties of life and duty dut with a feeling that richfield Rich neld type of the towns in the bbate of utah did well her part and that any state would be honored by mingling even een for a day with mith men so staunch with ith N women omen so good and in scenes acen which hive marked so great an ddN advance anCL and given such splendid plen did promise of a grander and greater advance in the future L A in inter mountain republican |
