The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-17
A CASE IN POINT.

While the boosters are boosting up
and down the length and breadth OF
the state. and arrangements are being
made for a energetic publicity cam
paign throughout the country, it is
proper to call attention to some Of the
men who have already achieved sue
cess in Utah There are many of them
in the various counties who have risen
to affluence from a shoestring start.
In going over its country exchanges
The neutrality-suspicious. finds the fol-
lowing account in the fremont Times
which will illustrate what has been
done in the past:
If any young man in the Bear River
valley needs an inspiration to
the achievement of success in
any line of labor, he should visit
the home and farm of Hon. Will
lard s. Hansen, near Fielding.
Probably there is no better az
ranged farmhouse in the entire
state, and as for barns and sheds
for the housing of animals and
crops, they are models for any
farmer. In the sheep barn,
which is 400 feet long, are some
500 or 500 Rambouillet sheep,
probably the finest in the United
In the stables and yards are fifteen
or twenty registered Percheron
horses, the best Of their kind,
and would pass inspection n al
most any horse show in the IN
ion; and out in pasture, with
grass up TO their eyes, were some
Jersey cows that would delight
the eyes OF any dairyman in the
country.
The well-tilIed farm and everything
around it betokens thrift, ener-
gy and painstaking care in its
management, and with all the
er and all the family and hands
employed find leisure time
enough to read the latest news
papers and magazines, to attend
church every Sunday and con-
certs and entertainments during
the week, IL they desire 70 do Sc,
and still slight no work laid out
for them. 4
To the visitor the thought naturally
arises that Mr.. Hansen must
have had fortune left him to
be able to have so much around
him of wealth and comfort. And
implied inquiry, the answer
comes that he did have a fortune
bequeathed him, but il consisted
of a good, brawny pair of hands,
an active brain, and a heart full
of love for home and country,
and energy and grit to do what
ever he sets himself about with
a determination to succeed.
He was no loafer. He never sat
around the saloon wishing for an
easy job, or wondering why some
one did not employ HIM When
ever he saw anything to do. he
did it to the best OF his ability,
and never shirked when his en-
ployer's eye was not on him. He
obeyed the Injunction of the wise
man, Whatsoever thy hand find
eth to do, do il with thy might"
and he has been successful in al
most everything he undertook.
For the young man OF today
there are Just as many oppor-
tunities as Mr.. Hansen had, and
with the same use OF brains and
Drawn combined with economy,
temperance and push, others can
be as successful as he has been.
What man hath done, man can
do" Opportunities exist everywhere
to a greater or less degree, here in
Utah superlatively so just at present
While it is desirable to attract capital
to aid in the development Of the coun-
try, there IS room for men in all walks
Of life.
Mr.. Hansen has shown what can be
done IN the Bear River valley without
capital at the start. The country has
progressed greatly since this success
full farmer and stock breeder began
operations, but the opportunity is still
here With a small amount of capital
anyone can succeed in the valleys OF
this state.
Utah points with pride to her sue
cessfuI citizens. to the farmer no Less
than those who have carved out for
tune in the mines of the mountains
or marts OF trade.