The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-13
The following character sketch Of
Jesse Knight Is by Samuel Blythe,
and appears in the last issue Of the
Saturday Evening Post:

Many men have sold mines that were
only man I ever heard Of who sold a
dream that was n mine.
Uncle Jesse did it, all right Likewise
he has sold a good many other dreams
or tho results OF them; for. when II comes
10 having visions that cash in for coin
OF the realm, Uncle Jesse makes any
other prophet seer or prognostica tor
look like reactionary who reacted some
thing like forty years ago.
Provo Utah. Therefore. he is entitled
TO have visions. lie is a miner and a
developer OF mines. Every time he needs
a good mine in his business he has a
finds the mine where the dream told him
10 look. OF course 1t was not always
thus Uncle Jesse had a good many
dreams about mines in his earlier days
that didn't pan out. Probably ne was
only Notwithstanding into form, as
the saving is.
Presently he dreamed the real dream.
He dreamed that il he started digging
In certain place, and dug until he came
under A certain sasebrush he would
make his strike. Uncle Jesse had been
pesterins 10; Of people with his dreams ;
and they all thought he was a harmless
old party and humored him. but they
would not invest This time Uncle jesse
Was sure he had tho right sort of "A
get six hundred dollars for expenses.
They all laughed at him, being bright
mining men and knowing The exact ratio
between dreams and discoveries. wnlLn
any other portly number YOU can think of,
Uncle Jesse kept on having the dream
and saw that r.ldorado Of a saSehrush
every night. Finally he raised tho six
lundred dollars and dug. II was a good
dream. Right under the particular sage
brush he had seen In his dream he made
his strike. That dream developed lnro
After that Uncle Jesse had no diff
Guilty in capitali2inr his dreams All he
had to do was to have q revelation and
! the money came pouring In. | con
know whether lie dreamed The Uncle sam
mine or not. but hc owned il and sold il
for five hundred thousand dollars. Of
which sum he gave one tenth TO the
church. being good Mormon and bound
hy the tilhing system
| They say out in Utah that Cpcle Jesse
has done more than any other one ind :
! ydual-as an indiyidual--toward deve-
! oping the mineral resources of the state.
| IIo wouldn't he much Of dreamer if ho
/ hadn't the courage "a back his own
dreams; and he is enough of dreamer
to get other people to back them also.
He has been IN mining for many wears
You hear Utah people scott at Uncle
Jesse's revelations. but most of them
| have stock in his mines just the same.
Uncle Jesse gives the impression OF be-
| ing earnest but simple rpiDded--an en-
! thusiastic. we'll meaning. but not very
acute sort OF citizen, who Is ambling
| along with his visions and dreams and
revelations. Uncle Jesse gives that I'm
preston, said. Gives is tho, word. Also
that is the exact, the Identical impression
Uncle Jesse desires To impsrt You car
hear people say he Is a bit touched in the
, upper story. az they put il. Ladies' and
| gentlemen. take II from me. Encle Jesse
/ Knight is crazy exactly like n fox. '.They
are talking TOO much about that mine. :
lie said one day about one of his proper.
| ties. They arc claiming too much 10,
Il. It isn't worth so much as they say
Uncle Jesse's Visions
could any one else. Simple minded OLD
person decrying his own mine! Huh"
us sG to ' buy " into It, Wherefore s they rushna Mh
10 buy into It. oddly enough, Uncle Jes.
Sc. having Issued his warning, was will
ing 10 SELL Foolish move on his part
wasn't IL? On. certainly: but he sole
tho stock
He has Visions about other things too
Ono Of his Illuminating revelations was
! about land in Alberta, Canada. Hr
dreamed that proposition out some years
before Alberta was not anything muci
but a place for the mounted police tc
| ride over So he went up and bought ?
Few thousand acres for not much an acre
Then he dreamed about raising suBal
beets up there. and dreamed sugar
factory; and now that land Is worth dol
lars where It was worth cents whel
Uncle Jesse dreamed about II first. .i
good dreamer, I should say,
uncln Jesse Is Democrat; TWO o,
three years ago ne had revelation tha
lie ought 10 run for governor on the Dem.
ocrat!c ticket. II waE good revelation
too, but as is the way. with some politl
cal dreams. II failed IN one particular
This sort of revelatlon--in Ctah-ha.
10 come from headquarters In the Nor.
mon church; and before Uncle Jess
could get his dream In good working or
der somebody in authority iB he ofnci.
revelation department short -circuitcd +
or grounded it--and Uncle Jesse didn'
run. However. the Democrats nominated
Uncle Jesse's son. known as j. William