Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-02-03

imam twenty OF SuCn passes anu any
land agent or newspaper man or
preacher or employee who sells, loans
or gives his pass to another person, is
forever debarred from getting trans
portation favors. The eastern states
need the land agent much more than
the western, the western people have
acquired the travelling habit, and more
than double the money per capita is
spent on the railroads by western
people than by the eastern. This, of
course, does not include the suburban
| business in the cities. There are
hundreds of well-to-do farmers in New
York and Pennsylvania who were
never out of the county where they
were born, never saw the inside of a
Pullman sleeper, and they would be
as much out of place in a dining car
as a Baptist preacher would be at a
sprinklng will venture to say there
| is not a man west of the Missouri
river who has not been outside of his
state He knows what a dining car
is and he can go to bed in a Pullman
sleeper without undressing in the
aisle.
In county seat in Pennsylvania is
a large toy factory. On every Mon
who have families and are willing
workers stand in line before the help
office almost begging for work at 10
cents per hour and board themselves;
but the supply is much greater than
the demand. These men are needed
in Bear River valley to work in the
beet fields, orchards, and on the farms
where they would receive double the
/
less and they would live in a much
better climate. In the Wyoming and
Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania,
are thousands of hardy, honest Eng
lish, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and Amer
lean miners who have been driven out
of the mines by the Italian, the Greek,
the Pole and the Hungarian, who
work cheaper. The former are need
ed in the great west where they can
own good farms that will sustain
them in their old age and they will be-
come good government supporting citi-
zens. The only person to change
them from the wrong position they are
now in, to the right is the land and
immigration agent. But today when
the immigration agent wants to go
east of Chicago after these people
he is told by the eastern roads he
will have to dig up full fare or take
to the ties. Does it pay the railroads
to encourage the land agent? In
March, 1897, Bear river land agent
visited a small town in Iowa and per-
suaded some of the people there to
visit Bear River valley. These people
came to Iowa a few years before on
a prairie schooner They never be-
fore thought they could afford to ride
so far on the cars and spend so much
money. They were delighted with
Bear River valley took baths in the
hot springs there and bought 120
acres of land, visited Salt Lake City
and the great Salt Lake. Their trip
was a revelation to them. They went
home and told their neighbors what
they saw, the land agent helped them
tell the story. In June more people
from this town in Iowa visited Bear
River valley, and every year since
many people have gone back and
forth, they have acquired the travel
ing habit. Did it pay the railroads to
encourage the land agent? In June,
two years later, this same agent went
to a town in northern Illinois and
persuaded four rich farmers to visit
Bear River valley. They bought Sec
ton of land at $45 per acre. In the