Arizona republican., 1908-03-02
R. H. GRttNf RETURNS FROM EASTERN TRIP
Had Good Time, Did a Little Busi- ness and Saw Many Interesting Things.

F. H. Greene returned home yes- terday morning from a visit to Ili- nnis. having left here on February
 9th. He had a delightful time and re- turns home rested and rejuvenated and prOudCr than ever of his Arizona home. and particularly enthused over its prosperity prospects. His trip was undertaken partly for business and partly for pleasure and was q success
 in both ways. though he~did not ac- cOmplish quite all he had hoped to when he started. That however. is usually the result of business trips. He closed up two or three deals that were pending. or arranged to do sn. and also secured considerable money for investment here by the PhoeniS Building and Loan association. H. says the eight per cent opportuni- ties out here look mighty good just now to the eastern people who are just crawling out from under the panic.
 Mir. Greene traveled east by way of New Orleans, which he saw for the first time in his life. and was not greatly impressed with the city. which is too low down in the ground to suit him. on the way to his former home in Peoria he stopped off in Memphis for day. his first visit tbere since the days of the civil war. At that time there WAS d city park filled with old forest trees and the trees were fill ed with squirrels that were as tame as pet dogs. A visitor could sit down i'm, squirrel would jump in his lap and be- gin begging for nuts. Nobody harm ed them and almost everybody brought nuts to the park to feed them. MT. Greene has always cherished lively recollection of that feature of h'' first visit. and he went to the park this time to see if his old friends the squirrels were still there. And there they were. they or their descendants, just as numerous and as tame as ever. Otherwise ne saw little that was ia miliar in Memphis except one or twC signs over time honored business houses that were big institutions in those days and still remain so.
 While in Illinois Mir Greene divided his time pretty well between Peoria and Chicago. In the former town the snow storms caught up with him and twelve inches of the beautiful fell on one occasion. the first real snow storm he had seen in eighteen years. But the weather was not dstressingly cold. In fact it has been unusually warm most of the time The Illinois river. which. according to convention, should freeze up in the fall and stay thak way until spring. has thus far re- fused to freeze at all this winter.
 Mir. Greene says the people here can not appreciate how severe the finan- cial panic was in the east. unless they have been there to see but the cen tral west seems to be recovering very nicely from it and throughout Illinois the situation is in fact becoming nor mal. Still the people have not recov- cred from their scare and many peo- pie. even business men and manufac- turers. are not trying to force their business as before. They are rather holding off to see what the result of election year will be. They are tinid about new undertakings or about in curing new obligations in their pres cnt business until there is a greater settling of conditions. One manufac- turer of implements told him that his | concern had not sold a car load Of inn !! plements all winter: had not tried to | pr cared to in fact, prefeTring to hold | pn and exist without business. con- rather than branching out. l
 The effect of it all has been that i in his opinion there will be even a | better demand than before for real es- tate as an investment for that is the | thing in which values seem to be more | dependable in times of doubt Even if it is not ready money it is safe and 1 nobody can steal it. Another reason there is a demand for real estate is that many. thrown out of employment,