The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-05
F FARNER SPEC|AL !
FINISHES TR|p
Experts Travel IS Days, HoId
II Meetings and Address
$4,000 People.
AWAKEN UTAH FARMERS 3
TO THEIR 0PP0RTUNJTy
Attendance at All Places Wis.
tied Is Big and Interest
Is Intense. 4

tic farmers and others. our tour ovs~
| the Denver 6 Rio Grands was oue a
the most successful trips along the lin.
Of work on farmers special trains ana
we are feeling good over the results
From the time the train left Salt Lax
until the last word was spoken a
| Springville Friday night, as we starte5
| home, the trip was ono continuous oya
ton. We left Salt Lake February IL
travelled fifteen days, made seventeen
stops, held three meetings each day and
spoke to 1903 people, including fam.
crs. professional men, business men
teachers, pupils and women ~ said Pro,
| fessor l.. y. Merrill. who has had chaYua
OF the special trains covering the sta{s
on his return Saturday morning.
we put in so many hours on The
trip and were kept Sc close to tho carr
the manner in which the people ars
taking hold Of this work and the cour
tcsles extended us on the trip amply
repay us for our work. 1t was a tYin
| that every pessimistic citizen of Sa2t
Lake should have taken. After an on.
| portunity of this kind TO see how ia
people Of the state are awakening Ia
| the greater possibilities before them
the pessimist either would admit
change of heart or leave the state.
- 1t was out of the question to get
away from the crowd at Springyillc
Friday without night meeting. Not
only the whole population of the town
was out, but farmers for many miles
around were there bright and early and
they felt that after travelling long dis
! tances they should have as much time
as possible with rs. Although the corus
| of instructors was dead tired, eveYy
one Of them readily consented to hold
| night meeting continued Mr. Merrill
One of Best of Trip.
" The meeting at Springville, if Dos
sIble, was the best on the trip. In point
| OF numbers and interest it was a GRAND
! meeting. When our train arrived there
| Yesterday morning we found tremen-
| douS crowd waiting at the station and
| as the day advanced the crowd in.
creased Our meetings were held in the
new opera house building and it was
| crowded.
''Our trip covering seventeen stops
was an ovation from beginning to end.
| Part of the territory we covered is new
ly opened up and the farmers are eager
to get the right start at farming The
land.
With one exception at every town
all the stores, banks and schools were
closed for the day. A reception COM
.
the Commercial clubs met our train and
with the town bands leading We pa.
raded the main streets TO the places of .
meeting
"At Elsinore our greeting was ia
honor of the Agricultural college. There
the schools dismissed for the day and
every pupil. waving a flag, greeting,
went further with all the familiar col
lege yells given by the school children
as Justify as ever college student at Lo-
gan gave it,
In nearly every town we found thai
considerable local advertising had been
done announcing the schedule of our
train. This, of course, helped increase
the attendance. All-day stops was an
other valuable feature of the trip, as
it enabled us TO hold three meetinEs
each day with much better results than
If shorter stops had been made.
States Future Assured.
"The wonderful success of our trip
can mean but one thing to me, and that
IS that there is an awakening in Utah
in the great agricultural possibilities OF
the state. Through this one industry
alone let NE say the future of this great
state is assured. l can see it coming
Nothing can stop our growth now, a
the farmers already in the state are
aroused TO the greater wealth they car
get out of the soil and the start is mado
Of the eastern farmers to the state.
1.-THE fact that February was the
banner month for land entries back
up what I say about the wonderful
strides that are being made in the aerl-
cultural development of the state.
" Back of the enthusiasm with whicn
the people greeted our tram is the. s1u-
cere desire on the part of the people Or
the state to learn how to get the hes1
results from the land and agriculturA
industries. Not the least interested u
the work of the train I found wcr9
business men and professional men. ~
many cases the presiding officers q
our meetings were physicians. busine<7
men and other professional men. Ever
body is awake to the need OF unite
effort 10 populate our farming Section
with good farmers.
Public Appreciative.
'tThere is prevalent a spirit Of 1r
probation for what the state. the agr
cultural schools and the railroads aI9
doing to advance the interests of aN'
culture in the state. In all our trarer
we did not find a single person que
tiOning the means used to carry inform
tion to the people. We were shoH1
many courtesies after working hour
Every minute of time devoted to lcc
lures anu QeI1OnSLrdllOnS was uStu o.
many extra demands were made OF q
instructors. We were made to feel TIN
rs long as there was work to do we We.
duty bound to perform it. Many sl1
cial entertaining features were arran3g
for us after we were on our own TN
"1t is difficult to calculate the v1o
spread interest in this work unless o'
is out as we were. After a few ia
rest we will begin holding two-day
stltutes In some of the towns we visl
on the northern trip where short s{9
were made. Our train has been ~
banded. Some of the exhibits WI!
sent to Los Angeles for the land Su
to be held there -
In all probability Professor @e
will be representative of the
farming interests of the state at
Los Angeles land show. He has
urged to take the exhibit and ar(
the show from the start, but his 2
holding institutes may keep him
spending all his time there.
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