The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-07-09
A DIFFERENCE IN
THE HEAD

In the spring of 1915 there were
many American boys in Bingham
county who had little to do and were
free to take up any line of worl
or bushes they might choose. They
had the advantage of education, anG
they knew the laws and customs Of
the country, and could speak the
language of the people here.
A lot of those same boys had moth
Ing then and they have nothing now
Some of them are working for wages
with nothing ahead as guiding stat
to work to, and they are not using
their wages as means to accomplish
any worthy end In the past two
years they gained nothing and lost
much in opportunity wasted.
In the spring of 1915 there arriv-
ed In Pocatello, Idaho, from Italy
one certain young fellow named Pas
quale (Pas-qual-ly, accent on quail
Di Renz0. and he had for his whole
possessions the sum of $35. He did
not know the laws and customs of
the country and he could not speak
the language of the people here. He
knew how to work and he knew how
to grow wheat. He learned that op-
portunity beckoned from every direc-
ton and that it was possible for him
to secure a great tract of land and
become the sole owner of it. So he
went out seeking where he might
exercise the right of homestead so
generously conferred by this coun-
try on it's citizens and prospec-
tive citizens. On the twenty
fourth of April of that spring
he filed on dry tract under
the homestead laws and thus became
the first in right in the race for title
to a quarter section of land lying
four miles east of Taber, in the coun-
ty of Bingham.
Pasqua1e knew how to work and
he knew how to grow wheat so he
got a job with the railroad company
keeping their track in order. and
every morning he walked to Taber,
four miles, did a days work, and
and made some improvements. He
has been faithful at his work and
has held his job, and If you go out
along the Mackay branch you may
see him every day keeping the track
in order to carry passengers and
commerce. At night he is clearing
his lands of brush and stones or
making other improvements.
He now has a house to live in,
and the materials cost him 500. He
built 1t himself. He has a chicken
house and some chicks, and he has
a little speck of garden with veget-
ables to spare. He has 40 acres of
winter wheat and some of it is poor
and some of it is poorer. He hired
an American man to drill it in for
him and he told this American man
just how he wanted it done. Pas
quale was paying for it and thought
he was entitled to direct as to meth
DDS. When Pasquale had gotten his
hired man (pretty big word for Pas
quale, who had never been an en-
ployer in his life before) when he
had gotten his hired man to working
the drill right, Pasquale hurried off
to Taber four miles away to his own
work as a hired man, and then this
American man changed the method
of drilling and did it different way
that was easier. Pasquale can take
you out over the field now and show
you just where the fellow changed
the drill and set it to run shallow,
for on all of it the wheat is thinner, J
and on some of it there is none. 1t
will mean several dollars an acre
Joss on the crop to Pasquale for this
change in the drilling. The Ameri-
can man has his money and will keep
it. and if he gave it all back to Pas
quale it would not make up the loss
On the crop due to shallow drilling
and in some places just spilling the
seeds on top of the ground for the
squirrels and birds to pick up.
Pasquale has worked under much '
but he is not complain {
~ ana lie is not quitting. Pasquale I
will work on, and will yet hire
Of his own age to work
Tor him and he will tell them how c
20 do 1t. He will direct as to meth t
DDS. Between him and them there
IS some difference in the head.
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