Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-12-27
COLORADO PIONEERS STORY.
Former Lieutenant Governor Relates
His Experience.

His Experience.
Fort Co!lins.-As the third lecture In
: series planned for the classical
course students of tho Agricultural
college. Ex-Governor Brush of Greeley,
spoke To large crowd OF students and
their friends on Pioneer Life In the
West" Drawing truths OF life from
anecdotes of the frontier. Mr.. Brush
gave the students four mnxims:
"First-I was offered dollar n
bushol for my corn crop In the early
days OF Iowa. refused. and saw II
lie on the ground and rot. II you have
anything to sell and are offered fair
price for It. you will generally win by
selling II at once"
Second! have learned also from
my Iowa experience mortgnscd prop
crty Is only safe In prosperous times.
A farm covered with 'piasters' is a
poor condition In times OF financial
crisis.
''Third-be sure that you establish
credit and reputation for yourself in
business. II IL the best asset you can
have.
sFourth-When You do n good deed.
II IL not only for the present. but
lives in the future as well. Always
do something that Will make the com
mGnity better. that will live and build
Il up"
Among tho many Interesting incl.
dents OF his part In building up tho
West. Governor Brush told the fol
LOWING:
II left a good home In Ohio ms =
young man In 1857. and finally landed
at Sioux City. Iowa Al that time !
travelled thirty to forty miles before
finding n place to stay over night
where now are thick settlements and
splendid farms and homes. After help
Ing build the fiEst shanty In Ynnkion.
8. D.. WAS one OF n party that took
tho Lewis and Clark trail. Colorado
bound. For six weeks We saw no other
human being and Ind many narrow
escapes In crossing ih. swollen
streams and In meeting hostile Indians
nenr the Colorado line. We reached
Boulder In July. 1853.
"My brother and ! owned n wagon
and four oxen. wo divided. each
getting a team OF oxen and ons-haif
of the wagon box. my brother the
front trucks OF the wagon and ! III"
other. with this team ~ cattle and
onc.hnif wagon ! began my life In
Colorado n. n frcish'er into tho min
tnH region around Black Hawk. Hay
Was worth $50 per hundrcdwci.hi.
and -four sis per hundrci~~i.ht- All
this I frcIsht-d into tho mountains On
my taif wagon. I have never suffered
from lack OF food. but have seen men
winter In Colorado with NO other food
than parchcd corn for coffee and meat
got with their rifles.
"in 1861 my bro;hcr and ] led with
ahorcis from Clear creek the ditch
which now has priority In all northern
Colorado. saw the Union colony
come to Greeley and M trndcrfe-'t
teach us pioneers the real way to ir'
rixat~. teach us tho value NJ biE can
ais built by concentrated effort. Gor'
crnor Eaton continued thu work thus
begun"
The speaker then told ~ tho dan
gers Of pioneer iifr and related how
he was at ono tim. pursued for hf'
teen miles by three Indians. assuring
tho Students that II was no pleasant
experience. He closed with this irib.
ut. to Colorado:
Il have R~cn Iowa develop Info nnc
of tho grandcst states 81 tho Union.
Nebraska followed suit. but most wen
acrfui Of all IL the PROGRESS made by
our own. the Centennial state ~ the
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