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.ATTSON, IjUD, Nov. 12. (Ppeelal
Correspondence.) Crelnhton.
Carinlrharl. Went. Uailey! F
nilllsr enoiiKh. urpn't they?
Woven Into the history; the
tinalo of the old and the new
weet; H was strange enourh to hoar them
echoed out here In this I'tah valley one
plrHBBtit Hunday afternuon. Little (Inxhea
of the pat; half rraned acratchea on niem
oiy'a Blate, the inarklntia of them came
out clfar enouKh a the white-pulled flock
nutiter, seated In front of tin open grate;
where the poplar wood crackled' and Bpat
out little tongues of flame across the
broad striping of an old-fanhloned rs car
pet, dlhcouiscd of Ms riayK an a teumstci ;
the daya when those other tnen were build
ing the Union Taclflo railway Into the ro
mantic distances of the west; across the
broad plains; through the purpled hills
nd over the ellver rivers of the "way-out
wonder land."
Do you know that liuv In a while It
(rows almoct remarkable to me to find that
wherever there Is a better building thun
usual; a better kept farm; a finer looklnK
flock of sheep; a little better home; that
some man from Iowa or Kansas or Ne
braska la behind It all. There Is some
thing about the frugality of those mid
vest boys; their thrift; their Industry, that
ems to take them over all the roujh
places; that smoothes the road before
them; that takes out the "thank-ye
maims" and make for at green, a hearty,
a well-provlded-for, old ane. And so It
was with me thla Hunday afternoon. The
home la the best In all this broad valley;
there were 8,000 sheep In the fold, all ready
to go to the dipping ground at Ooshen;
the horses were fine stock; and over the
whole of the 4.0 acres there were the marka
of Intelligence; of foresight; of Rood hue
bandry. We drove to a alghtly knoll, where
West mountain dips down Into I'tah lake,
wiere we could overlook It all. And fairer
mht the eyes of man have never dwolt
IIPOQ.
The night before. It had rained, and the
heavy clouds still durkled about the snowy
peak of tUamond mountain; a lofty hill
of the Wasatch range. Fleecy clouds were
tumbling, pell mell, down Its slopes.
browned and darkened by the frosty touch
of the mid-October nights. To the left of
il. far up on the lofttert peaks, snow was
falling, lower down it had turned to rain,
which streams, like a flood of silver,
through the sun, yet lower it hud tinned
to a nMst and through thrs thee was a
lainbow, wondrously colored: lis many
hue Just touchliif a dip in the hills, as
though there Were a lis obduiaglun pot o"
gold there and these were the hues: thu
inflection of gigantic tuva. The eye dw!ls
for a long whl!-j u such a sight; one
thinks that niuhe the ae of mnaclex is
not past and Is g'.ad of the day and the op
portunity that brings such a scene. In front
of this the grern field swept about the
umbrageous beauty of the little ton of
layson. as a flood of emeralds might pan
- and swirl about mint obstruction In the
Klream. There are yellow patches, golden
in the sun. stubble fields, and. In the far
thest distance a drove of pigs, moving bits
f ebon, foraged In a eomfluld, once green,
cit now yellow with the age of the old
.tar. Through It all ran a go'.den roaJ;
its Una fence sometimes lost by distance;
cad merged Into the yellow field j as though
it were liquid ajid had broadened Into
goldn pools; lakea, swollen for a space
only to be drawn back again and thenoe
on nd on, over the green hills and Into
the blue spauea of the dlstanoe where the
Mouds. the goldeb road and the purple hills
remej to meet, Just under the rainbow's
aich.
And in the tnldet of thle waa the farm-
trd. About the home large enough for
moer house the splreUke poplar kept
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sentinel, and from the chimneys, wraiths
of blue smoke curled and lout itself In the
Indigo distance of the hills. The fold, with
Its buildings, weather-beaten and silvered
by the years, lay hard by; the gate stand
ing hospitubly open; the barns filled with
grain and hay; the firewood corded against
the north wall a realised dream of peaca,
plenty and comfort. I spoke of It, turning
to him aa I did ao, and the flesh of him
pinked a bit as he answered:
"My home for many years; I've been bere
iort.v-two."
Thts Is the Utah valley, where the United
States government Is building Its great
.Strawberry valley Irrigation project. And
I waa talking to J. 3. McButh, president of I
the Strawberry Valley Water Users' asso
ciation. I was looking over the 470-aere
farm whloh he owns and tills; I was apeak
lug of hie home; his sheep and his horses;
when he told me he waa from Iowa, Al
most I could have said: "I knew It." He
was and In different. Of few words, and
those mildly spoken, generous, he yet re
tains In hie early 'tiOs, the thrift and fru
gality that has made Iowa one of the
wealthiest states of the union. Even as I
talked to him he told me of the prepara
tions he was making to go to. Goshen the
dipping pens at S o'clock the next morn
ing. For forty-two years he has lived In
the Utah valley; for forty-two years he
iiMS been the moving spirit In every enter
firtee that had Its object the betterment of
the country or of his fellows. For forty
two years ho has fought the good fight,
winning fortune, place, power, wife and
homo out here In the new went; and still
fighting for the children and grandchildren
that cluster about his kneea, climb upon
his hack and tousle the hair of grandpa.
Do you think It was easy to get him to
talk of himself? Not much! I had to
croFs-examine like "a 1'hlladulphla law
yer." learning as X went along this golden
truth! Urtt wius. industry Is a faithful
soldier; thrift a good messenger; frugality
a fine aorvant: but grit, nerve, daring,
win; win in spite of everything; win lor
every mun; for uie, for you, as they win
now; as they have always won for "Jlai"
McUeth.
lie was in years old when he left a job
as a f .ti in hand nine miles from Iowa City.
He was a well paid farm hand, getting u
tauu month, but he had enough to take
htm to Omaha, then a shanty town, on the
muddy banks of the Miaxouri. The builders
ut i.iiiii.adr ei- at work. Oieighlon was
stringing the telegraph wires; tne scream
of iocoutullveM pieioeU tho black bights of
the vall.y and their red eyei. gleamed In
the Council 111 ulfs yards, buffaloes wen
being hunted; Indians Were being trailed
gold wax being washed from creeks and tlu
salting sun beukoned and called. 1 here
i mii man?, many buys who answered the
I Kim voice; but at tjiiiaha thu glamoi
! laded for "Jiiuinla" Mlttii. farm hand.
auu us ji.meu tne uuiui ti.at John A. Webt
sending out to the constrilctiuu camps
of the l ulon i'aclfio light or-way. He was
called a "mule skinner" in those da vs. and
! at ljiraiiile though theie was no 1-aianuc
tlHli-lie buckled himself Into Ins lines and
Kent to scraping the biack plains of Wyo
ming into eoine suit of a grade tor the
"sieani cars" to run on. Those were the
days when a man with a plow guided bis
mules with one hand while he held on to a
carbine with the other; the days when the
Indiana resented the coming of the while
man a mobsters; daya when soldiers
guarded workmen and the pony eg preen
brought the letters and newt from heme.
Perhaps there were not so many Umota-
tiona then; perhaps there were more, aod
Jim- McEetb didn't yield to Uiem
easily as boys do nowaday At aar rate
he saved his money and before he got te
Ogden be had three mule teams of his own
and was contracting the labor ef six mules,
two men and himself to the contractors,
leaning some) money snrery month aad
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doing aa well, proportionately, or better
than any man on the Job. The winter of
'08 found him at Ogden and from there he
went down to Bait Lake City, thence to
Utah valley and on Into I'ayeon, then a
thriving Mormon settlement seven miles
from Utah lake, a orystal Jewel set be
tween the emerald bills of the Oqulrrh and
Wasatoh ranges of mountains. It was a
good plaoe to winter the stock, for It was
mild and feed was plentiful.
Of his days at Payson, Virginia City and
t)eer jLiodge, of his Nevada trips little need
be said. He bought and sold cattle, settled
his own disputes, left decisions to the flip
of a coin, the drawing of a lot and abided
by the cast; neither complaining when It
went agalnat him, nor gloating wrten he
got the best of It. He won and married
Diana Elmer, a Mormon girl; no small
triumph for a Uentlle In those days, and,
finally, In "78, bought the beginnings of his
Payson farm and settled down; the farm
and family growing as the procession of
the years swept past.
Eight years ago, one morning;, John H.
Dixon, the mayor of Payson, drove out to
McBeth's and asked him to be one of the
party to go over 'Into Strawberry valley, a
cup In the bills, beyond Diamond mountain,
fifty miles away and Investigate the pos
sibilities of an irrigation project to have Its
headwaters there and to Irrigate, through
a system of canals, the 60,000 acres of land
In Utah valley. His Judgment was needed
and was asked for. Mr. MoUeth, now, Is
frank enough to say that he did not believe
In It; that he did not think It feasible;
that he said so, but that he also said that
if enough of the people about blin, his
neighbors, did believe In it, he would be
one of them to see whet could be done.
Thlw was characteristic of the man. He
bowed to the will of the majority and went.
With him went Heber Jex, the mayor of
Spanish Fork; and State Senator Honry M.
Gardner. They took with them Knglneer
Sevier and once on the ground this en
gineer told them of how the thing might
be dune. A great reservoir site waa to be
found; Strawberry river was to be Im
pounded; a tunnel was to be driven through
the Wasatch hills, and a diversion dam
was to be built far upon the west slopes
if thore mountains. It was all easy enough
!f the money could be had; but the dif
ficulties were almost Insuperable and a
mass meeting of the people of the valley
was called to meet at the town of Spanlxh
Fork. That meeting appointed a committee
of which Mr. Mclteth wns one ami It set
to work, first to measure the run-off of
the rUrawb-rry river and Horse creek.
The general land office, gave permission
to go on the Uintah Indian reservation to
make reservoir and water locations. The
committee did this, with Mr. Mthetli, ty
this time an enthusiastic and tireless
worker. The Utah Mate I,and Hoard
granted some financial assistance and the
state engineer surveyed the reservoir for
the purpose ef making the water filings.
These were so made that tliey covered
the two rivers. Hy this time It wsi d
covered that no private enterprise; no
Capital which the fanners of the valley
Could control could finance and prosecute
to successful completion so gigantic an en
terprise aa this was proving to he.
Discouraged? Not a hit of It. J. S.
McBeth Is nut one of the "discourasable"
kind. The whoU project was then called to
the attention of the reclamation service of
the United Slates government. United
States Senators Heed Bmoot and Suther
land took up the matter s that the gov
ernment signified tts willingness to take up
and finish the project. Here, however, a
proviso wss ir.aie that all water rights
should be equal and this was thought Im
possible. Applied socialism was too new
for the minds of the Utuh valley farmers
to grasp at once. It wan thought, and
many of those who had been full of hope
taa t tUr beels lu despair. Not so J.
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6. , McBeth. He persisted, rounded up his
committee and in ninety days had written
1,300 contracts with Individual owners of
the water; baa assigned these contracts to
the United States government and the re
clamation service took hold. The project
then became an assured success.
Ttday, as I write, the project is over
one half completed. The tunnel has been
driven more than ten thousand feet Into
the mountains; the dam for the reservoir
Is built; roads have been constructed up
the mountain side; telegraph lines make
Utah is Store
House of Wealth
in Its Resources
State ii Reported oa Eve of a Great
Revival in Commercial and In
dustrial Affairs.
SPANISH FOKK. Utah, Nov. li.t Spe
cial Correspondence.) "I believe that so
soon as the tastern people know more of
Utah, this State will experience the most
decided revival, commercially, Industrially
and agriculturally, of any state In th
west."
This Is the belief of Franoee M. Snell.
oashler of the First National bank of
Spanlah Fork, Utah.
Mr. Snell la a native born Utahan. This
city Is his birthplace and he has lived here
the greater portion of his life. He says
he has seen these cities on the Utah lake
grow, slowly, conservatively, but surely,
and believes that the future of them, within
the next few years is greater than in the
past half century.
"Utah is the pioneer of Irrigation; in a
modern sense, we began that system of
farming In this state and successfully de
veloped It throughout the' whole of this
Intor-mountain region. That we have not
done the same big things here as else
where Is partly due to the es.st with whloh
we have made money here; so easily as not
to require much effort; and partly due to
the fact tliut we have lived within our
selves, paying but little attention to the
world ot hUblle, effort and hurry.
"Long ago we mastered the secret of
successful dry tanning and we huve raised
aa much grain on any of the woret of our
dry farms in the most unproductive years
as the highest average of the mid-west '
slates. Our fruit, especially peaches, takes I
lie lead over all oiher sections In the west
snd wii w evei 11 Is known It is must eagerly j
ought fend brings the highest prices. Tlie!
first sugar factory making sugar from the!
beets to tho table was established at Salt !
lk City, and by tirst, 1 mean tho very
(lift on the Ameilcau continent. Utah j
may really be said to have tiie greatest
number of sugar factories over Its eeuil- j
le-Mrlcted area of any oilier section tu tlilti
country. J he farmers make money rais
ing tlie roots, the working men make'
money through employment at tlie factory,
and the cities inake money tliiougii having
the factories, weighing stations, and sllc-!
ing plants, located near them. In almost
every dairy product I'tah excels any oilier!
stale and tlie I'tali Valley surpasses the i
rest of I. tali. I
"In addition to this wa have mountains
of copper, solid lakea of asphalt, greet
areas of roal, Inrxiiaustlhle supplies of
Iron, salt enough to last the universe fur
an aeon of -centuries; gold, sliver and oil, '
all eon tribute to make of this Blate the
most promising field fur Invesiuieiit and
settlement in all the west."
That s the way F. M. Hnell. cashier of
the Airst JsaUyuui Utua f tia4uau i'ura
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communication easy; Ihe great electric
power plant and the diversion dam Is com
pleted and In operation. Land Is Increas
ing In value; thousands of cach trees
have been planted on the sunny "benches"
along the hills; new houses are being built;
and town and oountry have taken on an
air of smiling and hopeful prosperity.
And thla shows just what "grit" will
do. The kind of grit they have In Iowa;
the sort of grit that acquired three mule
teams between Laramie - and Ogden; the
variety of grit that won a Morman girl for
a.
FRANCIS M. aNELL.
fc' Pauls a Fork, Utah.
believes In his state and valley. He is a
conservative banker. The First National
Is cap! tallied at 25,n00, and has 1150.000 on
deposit. Spanish Fork Is located In the
heart of the 60,000 acres to be developed
by the United States iirigatlon project
known as the rltr.iwberry Project. It Is a
city of about 3,000 population, located on
the main line of the Halt Lake. Los An
geles A Han Pedro and the Klo Grande
railways. It Is the logical market town
for all of the gieat area now being re
claimed and the citizens, a merchants and
banks expect great things when the water
is finally turned on and the fruit tiees
have actually come to bearing. The gov
ernment la using all possible speed in hast
ening this project to completion, and it Is
believed that the work will be consum
mated at the earliest possible moment.
MEN OF YEARS JOIN THE ELKS
O. IVtin Jubu II. Ilnlbert Are
Takea lata the !. I Order
Friday Marat.
Two of the oldest mm ever Initiated into
the local lodge of the llenevolent Protective
Order of Kike were taught the mysteries
of the order in the Llks' home Friday
night. They are O. Pegau. 78 years young,
and John II. Hulbcrt, 71 years young. Mr.
Huibcrt is bailiff for Judge Lee H. Kslclle
In the criminal Ulviiiuu of district court
E. Wakely, tlie Nestor of Iougls county
bar, is the only man of more advance 1
age ever Initialed by the local Kiks. He
is 17
.Several ouog men also were liuUated
Friday tagw
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a wife. Persistence; keeping at. It; nerve;
that's what did it The beginnings were
small and Inconsequential: the conclusion
Is that the United States Government has.
expended two millions of gold to reclaim
sixty thousand " of acres of the most
beautiful valley In all this wide world.
And "Jim" McBeth, with his grandchil
dren playing about his knees; tousling his
hair, crowing on the laps of their mothers,
sits in front of the grate fire, In ills just
complete I10.000 home, getting ready to
make a 3 o'clock start for Goshen and the
Idaho People Are
Enthusiastic Over
the Big Land Show
Western State to Have Exhibit at the
Land Products Show in
Omaha Soon.
BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 12. iSpectal.) Idaho
la enthusiastic over the Western Land
Products exhibit Displays from this state
at the two National Corn expositions In
Omaha have brought splendid results hy
bringing good settlers to the state and also
by attracting the attention of the people
of the east to the splendid quality of the
products of the state.
"I can trace ITiO.OOO of business to the dis
play we made at your city last year,"
said C. J. Blnsel to the writer, when dis
cussing plans for the exhibit In January,
"and today I received order for five acres
ot our Holse valley apples as a direct re
sult of the work we did at Omaha"
The Southern Idaho Irfugue of Commer
cial cluliB Is planning a display which will
ttlf regardless of digestion and nutrition. He might almott at well eat thav
ings for all the good he gets out of his food. The result is that the stomach
growt "weak" the action of the orgnnt of d!g:inn and nutrition are impaired
and toe man suffer the miseries of dyspepsia and tbi agonies of nervousuM.
To Btt-euithtm th atomach, restore th activity vf tha
tana ol digestion and nutrition mad brmta VP tho nrrev
lis Dr. Pierce' a (ioldcn Med!ctl Vlacorery. it ia ma uw
falling remedy, mad haa tho confidence ot pbyslclaoa ma
well ma thm praise ol thousands mealed by Urn uae.
la the strictest tense "Golden Medical Discovery" temperance medi
cine. It contaiut neither intoxicants nor narcotics, and it at free from aloohol
at from opium, cocaioe and other dangerout drugs. All iniin.dientt printed oa
itt outside wrapper. -
Don't let a dealer delude you for his own profit. There it no medicioA for
stomach, liver and blood "just as good" at "(iolden Medical Discovery."
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r j j la a safe Investment. The older it gals, the
iiOQU VlOllil n.ore It lncr.vos in value. Our collection of old
and new
west, and among them are a great number of goto VIQX.IBK made by
auch makers as Curatoll Urulll, Martin, Horumeniar and many others.
PRICES range on complete outfits (Including case, bow, rosin, chin rest
and extra tet of strings) from t'-OO up. fcod for cash or ea-iy payments.
We also carry a full lino of llolton Cornets, Wahbum Mandolins,
rttirtnn Guitars, Uanjos and Mandolins, Accordi-ena, Flutes, licoo o. Clari
nets, Mouthhurps, Autoharpx, Metronomes, Hnure 1'iriims, llase Drums,
Ch1ne.se and Turkish Cymbals. Hwiss Jlusio liuies and the finest line of
string ros ax, i. xaBTarmxBTTB., ouh mices are the lowest.
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dipping pens, where his 5.000 sheep ain
folded, tomorrow morning. He has had
grit. He has had nerve, and he says;
"From the time I left Omaha until now 1
I have never seen the day when I couldn't ,
meet all my obligations, cent for cent, antl
have a little something left over."
it's all right to grow and expand and
become "big," but It Is another thing to
grow and play safe while you are doing '
It Almost any "dreamer" oan do the
first, but It takes grit; pure grit to do ton '
Sui'OIld.
show the people of the middle west soin
of the great possibilities of their state and
their exhibit will be the most unique ona
which has ever been put on at a land
show. It will not only be one where the
apples, grain and potatoes of this section
will bo displayed, but the live stock, corn
and other Industries will be shown. Besides
they will run a series of features eaolt
day which will "keep tilings popping" all
the tlino.
Omaha people will be watching Idaho
from January 18 to M. W. O. P.
'tightwads sad Others.
The members of the Antl-Tif litwad oluu.
organised by the gliis of a ivaiisas high,
school fur the purpose of boycutung the
young men who show no disposition to buy
leu cream and soua water for their girl
friends, will probauly be unpopular with,
the members of a soul sty organised In Chi
cago some years ago under the queer Dims
of "We Pay Our Own Way olub." The
originator of the movement, apeaklng of It,
said at the tlinui "The members of this
body are young women who work for their
living. Nearly all have escorts to and from
their places ot business. Thte w-Uu bave
none expect them. We Ilka the company
and don't wish to consume a lot of time
twice a rlsy insisting on paying our own
cat fare, r-o we have oigaiilaud and wear
the 'We Pay' pin. Uy paying our own way
w sain time fnr conversation, keep out
Independence and the hoys save tbelr nick
els without running the chance of buiug"
calle.l atlugj'."--Nciv i'oik Tiioun.
The Tenderfoot Farmer
It wet one ol these experimental farmers, who put freest
spectacles on bis cow and fed her itiavinfa. Hii theory
was that It didn't matter what the cow ate to long at sbe
wat led. The questions ol digestion and nourishment had
not entered into his calculations.
It't only a "trnderloot" farmer that would try such
tn experiment with a cow. But manv a farmer feeds kirn-
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