The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27
One New Sugar Factory in Operation and Another
to be Built Next Year by Parent Company.
Fruit Growing Also Important Industry in Addition
to Sugar Beets and the Usual Varied
Product of the Mountain Farm

roulette contained just enough, yet not
too much, reform. AS Bill said the
percentage was too big for any honest
miner 10 really beat the game. Stran-
gers and investors, hearing that the
camp had prohibited roulette, would
naturally think that the camp was E
place where law and order held the
winning hands. AT the same time, the
good old games Of faro and poker were
left to enable the boys to carry out
their praiseworthy efforts of keeping
outsiders coin In the camp.
But Ike Atwood. though he was even
more eager in the cause OF reform than
Sulphur Bin. was cut to the heart be-
cause he hadn't been nominated as the
reform candidate. he could shoot as
straight as Bill. drink more tanglefOOt
whisky. and play even n better game Of
draw than Bill Why should Bill have
been selected in preference to him, Ike
would ask in grieved tones. And there
wasn't any real answer to Il, except
that Bill. so to speak. had drawn first,
an equally important item, whether
nominations or the settlement Of some
little dispute Is concerned.
"Of course, the proper thing for Ike.
he being a refOrmer at heart would
have been to support Sulphur Bill. Then
the cause Of reform would have won
out even If Ike's personal aspirations
were a little bumped. But Ike didn't
see It that way. He would start re-
form movement Of his own. So he sort
OF sneered at the reform principle adj
vocated by sulphur Bill
Faro VS.. Roulette.
q" No roulette as a reform platform
said Ike. sarcastic like. "A fine plat
form. is roulette the hydra-headed
monster that is stalking through our
fair camp, spreading ruin and desOla-
ton, breaking up families. driving away
strangers with money! Not for sec
Ond. The root and branch Of evil in
this camp is the pernicious game OF
faro. Abolish that, and refOrmers from
all over the world VIII flock TO Deep
Gulch TO copy the system OF public
purity and good government introduced
by honest old Ike Atwood. Down with
the faro bank, with splits. and Sulphur
Bill; up with the rag purity in poll
tics, the full dinner pail. and Ike Az
wood. the miners true friend. That's
the real reform slogan in Deep Gulch.'
And Ike would expand his chest and
strut around as If he was the old orig
inaI personihcatiou Of all reform move
ments.
Il warned both Sulphur Bill AND Ike
that II they kept on opposing each other
and running competitive reform move
ments the wide-open party headed by
{
prietor Of the largest saloon In Deep
Gulch. would win out.
The camp is ripe for reform with
! big r.. I said 10 them. But double
/ headed reform will only mix the boys
up. and in the end chere will be no re-
/ form at all. IF you can't agree which
I is in the right throw dice or play a lit
( tie game of freeze-Out to decide. If Ike
wins. then the reform slogan viii be
/ no faro" If sulphur Bill has luck
/ with him. then the reform forces VIII
/ rally to the cry of no roulette. But
/ if YOU don't come to some such agree
ment the noble cause Of reform viii
I stand about as-much chance as ice 40
\ the region Were Mr.. Satan is the boss
But neither Ike nor sulphur Bill
would heed my kindly remonstrances
/ AS the campaign progressed each grew
] more and more bitter against the other.
until IL looked as If either would pre-
fer q victory Of the Wide-Open reprObate
/ party TO that Of HIS rival in the cause
/ Of reform. And all the time Pete John
son. Jim Haley and the rest of the rep
rebates were working their hardest 10
/ hold the camp TO the old regime.
The other Side Of Tt.
Hasn't this camp grown to be the
! most progressive and respected of any
/ in the northwest without any reform
T.
! Does any one run out, grab a man and
make him play those innocent little
/ games the refOrmers are knOcking2
I Not at all. The boys play. because they
/ like il and expect 10 win. And if we
! occasionally do pick a stranger up by
/ the heels and shake him until his money
runs out, Is that robbery or due 70
/ greed? Not at all. II is done through
4 patriotism, local pride and a praise
worthy desire to keep his coin in the
camp. where IT viii be of mutual ben
I eft to all the boys. And even if this
camp does need a bit of reform, what
1 kind Of a brand IS it likely TO get when
/ the movement is led by q couple OF
: highbinders like Ike Atwood and Sui
/ phur Bill StebbiEs? Any stranger who
/ goes against that brace Of reformers
/ VIII be lucky to get away with his
/ shirt
There was a good deal Of truth IN
/ what Pete Johnson said. and the boys
/ appreciated it. Still the reform move