Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-05


n home and its surroundings, with that
industry and pride which probably
never sweiled in the heart of a milion-
aire.
This was no time for dawdling or |
loafing. No hour was lost in wait |
ing FOR something to turn up
They were hard but happy |
times, and real wealth never accu-
INFLATED so fast as when there was
hardly dollar in money within sight
or reach. Wooden hinges wooden
latches, bleached muslin oiled or
creased for a window and afterwards
sx10 glass at fifty cents light, with
nails at sixty to seventy-five cents
pound, wooden pins held perchance
the frames together, but the house was
the unimpeachable property of the
man and wife or family, II they had
any at the time.
Now there are none mot even the
actors of those times) who wish to
resurrect the old conditions, but res
direction of the old spirit is needed
and needed bad: an infusion of the
spirit of self help and primitive vigor
into the hearts OF many, would be n
veritable godsend and blessing, for
1t IL pitiful to hear n community calling
from afar as II in distress. eve want
securing plant We want a grist MILL
we want a creamery" and listener
might easily answer If echo did not
why don't you get it?'
Is 1t believeable that II the demand
and the resources of localities require
these things, that there is neither en-
terprise, nor public spirit nor union
enough to create them? Tut, tut.
brethren. "who would be free them
selves must strike the blow"
OF all the owners of the thousands
of sheep which would be tributary to
n securing plant In Coalville, are there
| none who personally or In combination
are interested enough to establish this
| thing? We are told by experienced
workers in this direction that wool
looses at least half its weight in the
securing process, and the saving of
freight alone in any year. would build
more securing plants than one! 1t is
| also claimed that enough oil and grease
| can be conserved in the process to more
| than pay the expenses of running. III
| this practical experience elsewhere is
correct, why invite some stranger to do
| for you. what you ought to be only too
proud to do for yourselves?
Same up north in regard to the
creamery. If there are cows enough to
justify the call. there are enough to
build the creamery Today the owners
| oil mt taf. "a nj
run 1t to the local store; 1t may be of
all colors, sizes and flavors ard when
put together 1t may be equal to or bet
| ter than some carloads of mixed matter
sent from this city to San Francisco in
the long ago; the inspectors there could
not be persuaded that 1t was the
product OF milk at ALL"
| Now for choice creamery butter,
uniform in texture, color. flavor and
| form, there is yet profitable market.
| as there is for its associate-good
cheese: but the Interested parties can
afford to build and run their own,
without-Macedonia like-crying to the
world, Come over and help us" Then
II self or union made, 1t will be their
own, they will take pride in 1t. pride in
its product and they will realize that
science in the manipulation of milk has
done more for gustative enjoyment and
for farmers profits. than all the clever
matrons or farmers daughters could
do, by the too often uncertain methods
| OF the past.
Probably as the result of modern i'm
proyements and demands, the building
of a grist mill is a more formidable un
del'taking than the others, but II there
was one man up there like Bishop Ar
chibald Gardner (still living, aged sd,
they would find grist mill "before
they knew where they were" Brother
G.. has built (shall 1t be said without
capital and individually near thirty
mills in Utah, and that thrifty COM
munity-a needy one as represented,
cannot do 1t, is worse than nonsensel
Why, wheat will build mills. IL the
spirit of cooperative action is not
dormant or asleep; yes, even roller
mill of the latest type can be built by
wheat, but combination could make the
race, get the rock, find the lime, secure
tho timbers and lumber, and any mill
builder will furnish the plans
and furnish the machinery
on partial time for q community so
evidently prosperous, thrifty and sta
bic as the good folks of southern Idaho.
They can vouch for themselves, and If
they pay modicum OF interest to the
manufacturer of the needed machinery.
they can afford to do this quite as
easily as to pay any capitalist who
may answer their urgent call.
The old proverb is that Where
there's Will there's a way" probably
(if IT can be said without libeD none
of these publicly inquiring localities
have the will. or the director is needed,
as In many other places, to show the
people "a more acceptable way" the
general drift is now, 1t is sad to say.
to beseech capital to come and do for
them all that the people were originally
taught to do for themselves; hence
canals, reservoirs, railroads, car lines,
electric works, mills. creameries, can.
neres. waterworks, public buildings.
school houses, farms. homes, ETC., are
being created by and mortgaged to the
outside world. when patriotic states