Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-02-02

people on the street, the clerks in the
stores, and the children returning
from school, all had happy smile
and all seemed to hold out glad
hand of welcome, they seemed to say,
come to Snyder and live, it is good
place for home. The lessons taught
by the Snyder blacksmiths should be
a guide to all. We usually find what
we are looking for. If we are look
ing for bad neighbors, bad business,
debts, SANDER, and gossip, we usually
find them. If person wants to know
what kind of neighbors he has, what
his neighbors think, what his neigh
bors do and how he likes his neigh
bors, let him look in the glass.
Everything we want, do, or have, is
a reflection of self John Rash saw
that his neighbors in Ohio were bad
and when he came to Snyder they
were worse. 1t was not John Rash's
neighbors that were getting worse;
it was John Rash. The acts of his
neighbors were a reflection of his
own mind.
On another occasion with party
of home-seekers from Nebraska, we
had a man of whom we got to
calling Grumpy" When we left
plain. The cars were too hot or too
cold, he did not like the brakeman,
and he got in row with the con-
ductor because he would not let him
spit on the floor. He kicked at the
lunch his wife put up for him and
howled at the coffee he got at the
lunch counter. He said the scenery
in Wyoming was no good, and the
person who stated that Cheyenne
and Laramie were beautiful little
cities, was liar. We arrived in Bear
River Valley the next morning. Grum-
py complained about his breakfast
and growled because the mountain
shaded the early morning sun. He
snarled at the conveyance the land
company furnished to show him the
valley, and whined at the dust i'll
the road 1t was a beautiful clear,
cool summer day. just right for sight
seeing. At about 1890 in the morn
ing we drove up on Point Lookout,
spot overlooking the Bear River
Valley. And like Moses of old, we
viewed the promised land. By the
propagation of crops and scientific
farming down through the centuries
from Moses to Utah we saw more
fertile, productive and beautiful val
ley than did Moses We were de-
lighted and carried away by the won
derful sight. We saw the Wasatch
Mountains on the east, whose lofty
summits-6ooo feet above the valley
wore white snowy crowns as en-
blems of grandeur, stability, and
protection to the beautiful valley at
their feet These mountains seemed
to rise from some undiscovered vale
in the north and extended southwark
till their beauty was lost in the hazy
dimness of midsummer day. The
great Bear River canal almost at
our feet, which gave liquid life to
the meadows, the orchards, and the
corn fields, seemed to be a graceful
and beautiful line Of intelligence,
which separaed the main strength,
awkward hit miss, rain storm farmer
of the past from the scientific sure
crop irrigation farmer of the present
AS our eyes followed this canal, in
places it would be hidden behind high
embankments or projecting foothills,
or lost in the dense foliage on its
banks, and then it would come out in
the open fields where the bright
MONDAY sun shone on its clear sur
face, till it looked like thread of
pure silver. We saw that the Bear