| Show THE IDE OLD Off SETTLER by albeit R lyman what does it take to make a town wood water land and grass guess again these elements contribute much of course but if they were the only jonly essential numberless towns would stand where the wood water land and grass are still waiting many towns have fizzed out and others have eked a miserable existence with these four elements in abundance all around there are towns chih hale hac grown strong and prosperous when wood was distant land scarce water limited and grass minus when brigham young sent his first colony into the utah dixie country Sou somebody demanded to know what in the name of reason he expected to raise in that desolate quarter latter day saints answered president young leaving his hearer bearer to figure it out that the first factor is not nob he country but the people the ithe indians had the country of t these hese united states hundreds of I 1 years without building one city or town worth the name the people from beyond the atlantic have made it wonderful with industry and progress all of which proves that the fibre fabre of the people auts ats more ice than the native richness of the country it takes guts to discover and develop the poes possibilities which a farsighted providence has supplied the guts are more vital than good town sites power sites rich soil and mineral wealth the site of new york pittsburgh Pitts burgs chicago and thousands I of others waited centuries for the I 1 I 1 guts while cilc they had the people coming A iiii nearer to brass tacks I 1 it takes one plan man with vision and apu ipu purpose i to bring a town ex iti ence if that one man really has the spirit and knows his stuff the fire of his ambition will catch in other minds like jike a flame in the dry grass land and these awakened minds will bring forth a new town this town on white mesa came into being as the direct result of I 1 the vision of one man anan he foresaw it and succeeded in throwing the 1 picture of it on th the screen of other mens minds he dreamed of it he studied it andhor and for a number of years he dropped every ambition but to make it a reality now dont get excited and dont be misled the old settler is not going to wrench his anten i process of the illiac out of place trying to throw a bouquet at hint himself self so let it be known right hero here that the man who deserves credit for the town on white mesa Is walter C lyman when it was the laughingstock of all wiseacres wise wie acres in thi the count county he maintained that it was to be a town they declared it a wild dream he made madeia it what has become the home of more than a thousand people rt it 1 is now more than he dared to claim for it so we re repeat lie at it ib has taken one man to start stark a town there are to be ower other t town ow n buil builders deis in san juan the matter of cringing nging this big region into its own as the happy home home of multitudes of people is the gl onous thing of which they dream who have watched the country grow and cherished hopes for its future |
