The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-02-08
THE GREAT WEST.
addressing letter From a Bates
County Boy.
MnridIan, I.laho.


E&tor OF TIE INES Butler, Nh
Sir-There m, lie pcopl" Ia Mi
souri, who cdu borrow their Leigh
bors paper md thus esrap" the ex
pense OF subscribing, tut send then
out here and they wi ID AS an
doiug-send dollar and wait AJAX
lou sly for the first number to arrive
The letter describing tn" trip q
the west ia an old practice bit !
have never seen lettrr'just Ike thu
other T. low wrote go will relate y
few Of the many interesting thing
shat impressed me
On the morning of Nov. goth as |
was standing by the depot At Cr.c.
waiting for the traip, which ia alwal E
late II the mercury lie very low and
no fire to stand ny. with keen wind
blowing from the northwest which
made ones teeth chatter and aroused
n Iittle III feeling for the ".ld State, l"
which | was about to leave. Bu'
having ''gtt agoing" and entering
Kansas l glanced eagerly out 81 he
car window expecting to zee the pro.
xerblal red top boot, sunaower and
hatchet but was disappointed, they
did not appear but in their stead
was some a. ans farms as in Mo. In
going on across the state l saw
many things that drove away all
the ilheeling for Mo. that had found
anchorage In nay being and csused
me to wonder how even the prairie
dog and wolf managed their exis-
tence. and It WAS the same 10 eastern
Colorado. Had l painted Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo by the
appearance ofthe eastern part OF the
state It would undoubtedly have
been sricture ola mass OF sod houses
with smoke curling upward from the
lard buckets used for stove pipes.
But things changed and arriving at
Denver saw a most beautiful city
and having Denver one beautiful
and thrilling scene after another
passed as one grand panoramic view
With the cold dry air OF Tennessee
Pass and other elevated places
thrown in.
Entering Utah applied my glass
TO the frst ranch house that we
passed expecting to ace the rsncher
aud his "wives" looking eagerly out
OF the windows, but instead he and
his "wiie", as | supposed, were
mounted upon two horses, that it
would be indeed a luxury to owD,
starting for a morning ride.
Ihad seen already too much for
INV vision was becoming clouded so
/ settled hack in my seat resolving
not TO look out again until Iarrived
at nv destination, but finding that
I would have to change cars at
Ogden decided could stand little
mora slpht seeing 80 pretty tn or
ouehly took in that city.
While spinning along the 0. 5. L.
An d seeing the sogabrush With here
aud there a dwelling and a ranch
cleared out the same thought came
10 me about the people of ldsho as
81 the prairie dogs OF Kansas. l got
off the main line at Nampa and run
NO iuto the Boise Valley and found
n yss,i right here at Meridian In the
midst OF great fruit farms, fine
raa.hss and a growing common
wealth. and have decided that 1t is
worth coming all the way from Mis-
souri, to be here.
A great many OF the people here
are Missourians the rest are Nsbras.
kans and all are certainly a most
,oetable people. DR.. Payne, formally
Of Butler, is located here and b as q
good practice. Quite a number o
Bates county people are here and
while they do not exactly look down
IN Bates county they are we'll pleas
"a odd ere likely to let we'll enough
alone.
Ranch land is high here and with q
be~t sugar factory starting up In the
valley means an advance of % to
II per cent. But with the govern.
meut work on the irrigation bitches
promising plenty Of water the land
- <t,n-o ,,-;co~ cfora a No vinU invoot.