This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...of his fate and works all things together for the bad. The loss of that sack of wheat was but the forerunner of worse disaster and merely typical of ill.success to come. We had been delayed in getting the wheat and had been compelled to make two trips for one, when we were pressed sorely for time in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...of his fate and works all things together for the bad. The loss of that sack of wheat was but the forerunner of worse disaster and merely typical of ill.success to come. We had been delayed in getting the wheat and had been compelled to make two trips for one, when we were pressed sorely for time in getting in our crop; we got stuck in the river on the way out from town, for there was at the time no bridge across the Poudre, and we were compelled to carry the sacks, one by one, out to the farther shore on our backs; and when we had sowed it and killed our best horse in digging the lateral down to its margin through the desert, with anxious expectation we watched its feeble growth day by day, after it had pushed its way through the ground, and nursed its sickly vitality with the attenuated little stream of water that came creeping down through the mirage that hovered incessantly about the canal above us, until at last it withered, like a false hope, and died; then there came a hail storm that would have knocked seventeen vigorous lives out of that crop of wheat, if there had been any life there to destroy, and there wasn't a ghost of a chance for it if the hail storm had passed by on the other side; and, finally, barring the rich and useful experience gained that season, and employed to advantage in after years, that entire load of wheat might better have been sown in the road rather than with such profitless labor scattered upon oour farms. It must have been some time in June of that year of experiment over the river that an effort was made to establish a woolen factory in Greeley. Previous to embarking in the Colonial enterprise quite a large proportion of our members had been engaged in manufacturing pursuits. Many of these, by...
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