Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-12-01
HAS VISITED MANY
FORMER ALMA PEOPLE
Roy Stuck to the "Side Door Sleep per
for Fifteen Days but Arrived
Little the worse for Wear.

Editor Alma Record,
DEAR FRIEND
think that before leaving Alma, IL pro-
missed 70 write you after we got here
and got settled, but we have been so
busy that have neglected it until now
We all arrived here without any mis-
hap, although we came on the install
ment plan. Walter came first, then
Roy and started with the car, then in
about week Mrs. Hayt and the chill
dren came on
went with Roy as far as Council
Bluffs, Iowa, with the car of household
goods and the horses, but by that time /
had got enough of travelling by freight,
so left him to come on with the car,
while came on ahead.
Roy and the car were just fifteen days
coming through, they came over the
new Salt Lake Route, which makes it
much shorter, and they give very good
service, for a new road.
for exercise during the whole trip, and
they came through in first class condi-
ton looking fully as well as when they
left Alma
did not sell my ranch here as | ex-
pected, there was a little misunder-
standing regarding the location of a
/ -, a,.I Il I
getting as much as / thought that l
should | declared the whole deal off
Some Los Angeles people were buying
my ten acres, and ten acres adjoining
/ for subdivision, and the owner of the
adjoining ten acres was getting S2500.00
more for his than was for mine, and
consider mine worth the most.
Just for an example, as to how pro-
perty has increased in value here in the
last few years, the owner of the adjoin-
ing ten acres, three years ago only paid
s3300.00 for it while if had not thrown
up the deal he would have gotten
$40, 10000, but the parties could not use
his for their subdivision without mine.
Nearly everything near me is being
subdivided and put on the market, and
the lots seem to sell readily and at a
good price, l think that l shall put a
portion of mine ON the market this
winter, about twenty-five lots / think.
Roy is the farmer here he is putting out
about seven thousand strawberry plants
and has out nice lot of cabbage plants
and peas, and they are looking well.
1t seems a little strange for us to be
picking strawberries and putting out
garden truck here, while back there you
must be enjoying the frosts and chills of
winter by this time.
If should get homesick to see the
SHOWS of "Old Michigan" all will have
to do is to step into our back yard and
look mp at the mountains, and in regard
to snow we can beat Michigan, for here
we have it in sight nearly the year round.
From our back yard we can pick straw
berries and oranges, and see snow at
the same time.
We are only about five miles from the
mountains, and from our place here we
have magnificent view of them.
We are getting our English wslnuts
pretty well harvested, we will have over
three tons of them / think, and the
number one nuts are now worth 14H
cents pound, the crop is considered a
light one in California this year.
Living is somewhat higher here than
back in Michigan, will quote the prices
of few of the articles that think are
high, eggs are forty cents dozen, and
by the way my children are very fond |
Of eggs and think their mother is getting |
awfully stingy about cooking many eggs.
Butter is forty cents a pound, milk ten
cents quart, potatoes, OF spuds as they
are called here, are worth $3.50 TO 81. IS
per hundred, they don't know what a
bushel is here, everything 5 sold by the
pound. the prices of other groceries aud
meats are much the same as they are
back there.
Fuel is also very high here but one
needs so little that il does not cost one