The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-03-23

ed" Whitley and family, on Mon
day Feb. 35th his time being up, and
anxious to get back to home and
business our traveller left Seattle in
a hard rain which turned to snow in
the mountains, across which the
train was pulled by two big
''moguls''. Emerging from the
tunneEto the east side into clear
weather, no snow and muddy roads
a half day was spent among bankers
and business men at Ellensbnrg in
Guiding a glance thru the State
Normal there, made very pleasant
by the agreeable Supt. who insisted
on introducing him to the whole
faculty who were assembled for g
meeting at the main Office. This
Normal, one of the three of Wash
ing State, has an enrolment Of IT'S,
pays it's Supt. a $4,000 salary and
numbers some eminent people on its
teaching force. 1 i
"A night ride out of Ellensburg
brings one to Spokane for brief
between.train stop, where the
"North Coast Limited" picks him
up at 1850 and the long stretch of
mountain and plain is traversed
without incident, save q delay Of
hours on account of wreck west of
Livingston, Mont, just ont OF the
tunnel. It showed hard all day in
Mont. and really nice clear weather
was not seen until the boundary of
Minnesota was crossed
Many have asked me ''what do
you think of the westa" After
making but hasty trip and only
short stops that is hard question
to answer and one gets 80 many i'm
pressions that it would take q book
to tell all of them. It is but natural
to make comparisons with our own
locality. While southern Minnesota
has not the diversity of Washington
as q whole, We have q greater
diversity right here than any single
part of rural Washington visited by
me. -.
As outlined, one locally raises
fruit, another wheat, the people of
other parts occupy themselves at
dairying, numbering, manufacture
ing, mining, shipping and in trade
with the Orient and Alaska. Here,
as is we'll known, the stock raiser;
or thoroughbred fanGier, poultry
man, farmer, grass oulturist, all on
neighboring farms may be equally |
prosperous. |
So, after q month spent in the
Inland Empire and on the Sound
southern Minnesota and Worthing-
ton, if il be his homo, looks mighty
good to the returning traveller.
There are many openings to be sure
and very many people are rapidly
accommodating fortunes, but one well
fixed here with farm or good bust
ness should look twice before he
leaps, for it must be remembered
that the people west are Of the
brightest sort and no good thing
will stand open for very long time
waiting for a tenderfoot to come
along and look it over and. take six
months to think Yf it before deoid-
ing what he wants to do, for when
he returns it simply wont be there,
The trip is strictly an educational
one and this ''pilgrim"' gathered
such a mass of information and had
so many new ideas presented for his
consideration that it will take some
time to classify and slft them and
then he would want to 60 and see
it "already yet again another time"
at different season before saying
much about it and he would not
then feel competent to advise till
he had lived there few years and
gotten in closer touch with actual
conditions than could possibly be
done stopping but day or two at
one place, picking up few facts
and then rushing off to another
presenting conditions entirely
different. -..-
The stories of the success and
prosperity of intelligentworkers and
business men are simply marvellous
and somewhat alluring but they
should lead no one to hasty action.
One using good Judgment or having