The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-14

| from the Kansas border, from New XII
| oma to Cedar Vale, q distance of 125 miles.
| The ssstrippers, - as the homeseekers are
termed, are lined up all along the border
OF the coveted strip, waiting impatiently
the boom of the cannon at high noon
next Saturday. They are there with their
| families and their household goods
their live stock and their farm ma
chInery, and with a hope long deferred (;
the mother with her youngest child at
her breast and a half dozen or more, per-
haps of various ages, there under the
shade of covered wagon, cooking and
caring for her loved ones; sleeping, eat
ing, living out in the open air and the
very air filed with alkali dust, the dis
comfort of it all intensified by the intense
heat OF the midday and the cold nights
and morningS;-b that mother, belying
her sad sunken eyes and emaciated face
and form, is as loving and tender and
painstaking as one will find her at the
little log house or dugout she will call
her home a fortnight, or at least month
hence; and she Will drudge at her work
with happy, contented appearance, no
matter what adversely Details. What a
lesson to the thousands OF mothers who
have always known a comfortable home
and no worry. The picture will be recog-
nized by hundreds of the pioneers OF Utah
and the sympathies of those noble, de-
voted women will go out to their sisters
now struggling for a home as they did
once under similar inconvenience. But
that home will be doubly dear when once
established, for bitterness In effort brings
sweetness in repose.
The majority OF the homeseekers now
here are of the better sort of Nomads, the
old refugee element, so common to other
openings of Indian lands having dlsap-
peared from the scene, or else are lam
ming the brush as one old stager
ventured when queried regarding them.
The majority of the homeseekers now
here are provided with all, or least the
requisite articles needed for beginning life
in a primitive way, as is usual with settlers
of new country. Indeed, the require
ments of the home builder-state builder,
if you please-are less. always, than
where civilization, in the fuller sense of
the term, exists. As the old house is re-
placed by a new and better one, and the
prairie and blackjack hills are trans
formed into meadows and fields of grain;
into orchards and barn yards; when
home comforts displace the struggles Incl
dent to the building up of the wilderness
home, greater comforts are thought Of,
and enter into the category of requisites.
The pioneers OF Ohio and Illinois, of
Missouri and Kansas, and of Utah as
well, have all realized these facts-and
are none the worse for it; indeed their
Ideas were broadened by adversely and
they became less selfish, broader, more
human for it all.
The great ssrunD is looked forward to
with eagerness by all. With the days APP
preaching have come the speculator, the
Thorn, the schemer and the blackleg.
Those who are to eager to gain, but have
little knowledge of the world, have fallen
an easy prev to the sharper.
Those who have not provided for the
future are eating stale sandwiches at two
bits apiece, and fight for them at that
price. The picture is not an inviting one
even to those who have made careful
preparations, for there is not & soul in
the whole broad expanse of territory now
being opened; no stores or sources of sup
ply; no houses to shelter one, and little
water and only then as God has distrib
uted it; hence the hardships to be en-
dured are mulJiform.