American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1907-11-02
OPPOR TUNIT

few evenings ago stood upon overlooking
American Falls and the beautiful valley adjacent with its
fields of Alfalfa and young of shade
there with orchards its which grazing the
finest types of horses cattle and hogs known
stacks of grain and hay its spinning well
baasted track noseess the water Of the river they fol-
low with its telegraph telephone and reaching
all directions young
throbbng shutting my
eyes transferred myself in imagination the old Oregon and
California trails passing through the and carrying
myself back fifty in the annus Of time
and covered of the old pioneers aborous but patiently
picking Their way through the sage brush over mountains and u
bridged doubling hills side and snubbng
down the other with blazed trails mark their and
guide but the between the mountain peaks and the set
then thought of the pessmsts the weakng Of
day who amentng the absence of the opportunities of
their foefathers and asked myself how OF these
pemists who crying for lost opportunities would have
braved the dangers and hadshs of those hearted old
! pioneers?
implements except they
with them thousands miles trail
stock except survived the tedious Journey their
only feed being the patches of growing and
there brush with cultivated fields from which
repenh their stock of provisions with welcome awaiting
them bu; the howl the the touahawk of
On and they rudged miles upon miles of eees track
less deserts of brush whose awful stiffness unbroken
por,nty struggle for The hope auence
have stirred their ambitions for there markets in
which dispose of surplus when raised and the value
unearned increment unesmed dream but finding here and
there small Of eapng
loose themselves the parhed plains below they their
camp stakes dwellings the battle for
existence That the opportunity Qf forefathers
Then opened my the the opportunity
today Here under the genial skies of Southern Idaho the Goodies
OF Fortune has waved her mystic upwards
Of millions Of of fertile land has been born the earth
No opportunity before people
> a any time any part of the world
. Opportunities like values relative One must know the
conditions that prevail in other parts the country
!. place estimate upon sIah.ies that
Let mind back the fields of OF the Eastern
: almost barren and worthless Ask
Daniel Boone. whose opportunity made with
hand and rife in the other ague victims
ftrnis
made hsbable by dhing machines drawn by
eight yoke Of Weigh left by the grasshoppers
, Of Bleeding Kansas the Of whose people
die Talk with the survivors Of the blizzard urares
the Dskotas Then follow through the forest
Rockies and the northwest where timber
lands where the homeseader builds and establishes
constructive residence, by living each year for
) FIVE years working in lumber camps and of
the time o keep the pots boiling At the end of few
!. sells his timber lumber company thous-
and dollars less, usually less them
: which to it, then sits down for them
lives blows in his stake He struggle
for amidst tops sumps worthless standing
timber At the end of another five dragging to-
gethe burning out sumps and snaggng he
ceeded in clearing up cultivation worked into
team and has few pigs and chickens ready
: die
Now this mind picture opportunities ure.
ented here where rains when and
: the time where by locating the clearing off the sage
brush during the winter
to pay all expenses and enough the second
water rights in full and where with alfalfa the land
worth 500 with fruit 81 900 your
choice but don't talk about opportunities Of our
: forefathers. W O. WAxS
!. Twin Falls, Idaho, October 25, 1907.
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