The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-04-05

hundred thousand dollars that we
needed. In my appeal to him said {:
"Mr. wadsworth. when you were In
Salt Lake you believed in me as a
boy when worked for you; you
gave me 800 as a New Years pres
cnt. and stated that no one else in
the bank should have dollar be-
,ause all the others watched the
clock to see how soon they could get
out OF the front door after o'clock,
ihereas I came back occasionally
md worked at night. Now that I
I'm one OF the leading officials OF the
Mormon church, ask you to believe
n me and to furnish the hundred
thousand dollars necessary to COM
2lete this factory. have just sue
cceded in getting fifty thousand dol
lars from the Firemen's Fund insur-
lnce Company of San Francisco; they
know me well. But I must have
hundred thousand dollars more. and
must have 1t from you" plead
cd with him to deposit the money in
Zion's Savings Bank and Trust COM
pany in Salt Lake City. and told him
we could convince that bank that our
securities were good. His reply was
that banks were failing everywhere
and he could not let me have the
money" Finally I said: Mr.. Wads-
worth, the beet sugar industry must
and shall be established. I have no
authority to offer you the note Of
the church, but I pledge you four
notes OF the Church OF Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints--twenty-five
thousand due in six months, twenty
five thousand due in one year, TWEEN
.ty-five thousand in eighteen months
and twenty-five thousand in two
years, with twenty indorsers, indivi-
duaily and severally liable for the
obligation; you to write out twenty
five names OF the strongest financial
Mormon men in Salt Lake City. and
I will guarantee to get twenty indors-
ers out OF the twenty-five" He said
'My boy. that is an impossibility; no
twenty men on earth would guaran-
tee, individually and collectively, one
hundred thousand dollars for any
church" well we are little diff
ferent from and other hhurch," re
Piled. II will get you the notes and
the indorsers all right" He insist
ed that Il could not be done, Then
you don't need to give me the mon
ey," said at last: "all I ask is that
you give me the opportunity" Then
he said: II will go you one better;
I will write thirty names, and If YOU
can get any twenty out of the thirty
II will be satisfactory, and you car
have your money" He wrote five
or six names. tore up the paper, ant
said: "Heber. you we're my office BIO!
1 fifteen years ago. Many a man ha
gone broke in fifteen years. ! will
Just.Hrite up to my successor in Sal
Lake and tell him TO write tn
names" When got hack home. hi
successor wrote a list OF names AM
.ias ne looked at them he said; "Thos
names remind me OF an incident b
early days In a California mimi
camp There was a saloon keepe
WIN nNu Va lis AApAh WV 'SN,
names Of the people who owed hir
for whiskey. One day his wife in
streak OF cleanliness scrubbed tn
floor and even washed the door an
when the man discovered IL he e'
claimed; Good heavens! YOU hav
ruined me; give me pencil quicl
and maybe can still: make the'
r. out. Then he studied out the name
as best he could and rewrote then
+ and stood and looked at the list. 70
y know some people say that damn
= only emphasis: and with emphasis b
said: That is the best lot of ---
names that was ever put on this
door. So this banker said This