The changes apparent in the colony, largely as the result of Dr.Brown's labours, were truly remarkable.

The creating of a market for their produce by the advent of the railway, and for their labour by the development of the mine, brought the Galician people wealth, but the influence of Dr.Brown himself, and of his Home, and of his Hospital, was apparent in the life and character of the people, and especially of the younger generation.

The old mud-plastered cabins were giving place to neat frame houses, each surrounded by its garden of vegetables and flowers.
In dress, the sheep skin and the shawl were being exchanged for the ready-made suit and the hat of latest style.

The Hospital, with its staff of trained nurses under the direction of the young matron, the charming Miss Irma, by its ministrations to the sick, and more by the spirit that breathed through its whole service, wrought in the Galician mind a new temper and a new ideal.

In the Training Home fifty Galician girls were being indoctrinated into that most noble of all sciences, the science of home-making, and were gaining practical experience in all the cognate sciences and arts.
At the Night Hawk ranch too were all the signs of the new order of things.