Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-14
BLUSHING OR INDELICATE.
A Boston Man Says Colorado is Everything it Means


, man s.gnihcance Just now they are
am astir with excitement induced by the
passage OF the national irrigation bill
The Size for the first reservoir 10 DE
constructed under the bin adioins the
town of Sterling in the Platte valley,
not fae from Denver When completed
this work win reclaim nearly or quite
600 900 arid acres. OF course the PEG.
pie are wrought up over &C. stranger
are hurrying Ia from everywhere TO get
possession of the lands which "a year
ago were an but worthless A million
irrigated acres win support In allluence
an additional population OF hundred
thousand and that rs only beginning
No one In his senses darp- TO DOUBT mat
these once hopeless sand fats are soon
10 blossom as the rose. giving birth TO a
society which Will be absolute master
Of its own destiny 10 was through TINS
very BIT OF country thta Ben Wade
once Travelled although the same story
is told OF "phil" Sheridan and Texas
I'm the company of an enthusiastic ma
tive who was explaining upon the glor-
les of its inevitable future
"All the couBry wants, said the ma
tive Us water and q little good So
clety" TO which Wade brusquely re-
torted;
"Thars an he'll wants
Colorado Springs, TOO, Is thriving
wonderfully, taking into account her
very limited sphere Of activity which
embraces almost nothing beyond the
exploitation Of tourists
That is q fine art, rather than a bust
ness and the citizens Of the place are
an masters of the art Three-fourths
OF the shops wholly depend upon the
patronage Of strangers they are con-
Quoted BY men who know exactly how
10 sch you something you don't want
at all. at five times the price you would
be- willing to my &c you did want It.
making you feel The while that by the
process Of purchasing you are mourning
eternal obligations TO themselves
Besides the shops there are the tour
lst hotels and the excursion carriages
for conveying YOU ont amongst the
lonely Businesses Of the rocks and hills
Hotel Keeping is nothing less than a
vocation, aud hack driving Is profess
sIon-in private Ne the hackmen are
leaders Of society. and men Of wealth
aud influence: between them BOnttace
and Jehu can certainly extract from
you whatever loose wealth has been
overlooked by the vendors Of souvenirs.
IL Is a good graft
with no other resources or Industries
worth mentioning Colorado Springs
maintains a chamber Of commerce an
elaborate school system, and a munich
pal government that is almost metro
pOlitdn
When the summer season Is oyr ana
the pilgrims are gone, the business part
Of the town goes into sort of hiber-
mating retirement after the manner OF
tat bear sucking It's paws for the
winters sustenance
These folks are not savages, nor yet
barbarians they are as dne a stripe Of
gentlcfoik as you could wish to meet.
The grayest charge against them Is that
they are 'ontO their job
As President Slocum Of Colorado coll
lege, an eastern man, now thoroughly
imbued with the spirit Of his new home.
has said I'VE may congratulate our
selves that our tasks are stupendous.
that easy accomplishment will be UNI
known 70 US. The mastery Of gigantic
difficulties Is the making OF men"
Nothing that Colorado has won nothing
that the west has won, has been won
without fun payment In blood and
tears and stlll the west Is passlonately
In love with difficulties. nightly scorn-
ful OF ease. Are not these good slgns?--
Boston Transcript.