The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-19
StOrQadrd Writes Of Herman.
California

Mr.. +. NJ. kremer,
Bookings, S. ID.
Dear Sir and friend
| promised COrbin | would write to
YOU as soon as | was satisfied in re-
gard to this country. | would have
written sooner, but for the fact that
| wanted to take time to verify my first
impressions, which seemed too good
to be true. | had a number of buy
ing orders for friends in and around
Aberdeen and | did not close them
until yesterday. and the time | have
been here | have been spending in
investigation, talking with all kinds
of people and using my observation.
To show what | think of it 1t is only
necessary to say that | bought all of
the land that | had orders for and am
sorry that | am not in a shape to buy
more for myself. | am going home and
will try to dispose Of some of my
Minnesota lands and will put the mon
ey into another 20 here, which makes
me the limit. as they will not sell
more than 40 acres to II man north
of the town OF Herman.
/ expect that by this time Corbin
is at Brookings, as he wrote that he
NOulu SO lltlt as SOOll do liz gu
back from voting. If that is the case
you may safely rely IN any statement
that he may make. 1t may be that
am fooled, but | do not think so,
for others are affected the same as
| am. But unless that | have lost
all reason and am thoroughly hypnO-
tized. this is by far the best PROPOSE
ton | eve I'll up against. In fact,
| do 0 believe it is possible for any
one to over-estimate it if they use
common sense. A man might, OF
course, make ridiculous claims, but
so far | have found none that have
done so. We, as you know perhaps,
have owned ONE land here for nearly
three years and have had several here
in the past to look it over so as to
get an idea of its value and one of
them have been unable to do it. In
fact the more one finds out and the
more people who have turned the
trick one talks with, the NOR prom
ising does it seem. | am speakire
now in a material way. If a man
can go wrong here he is helpless any
where | have ever been. That is all.
1t would be useless for me to try
to tell you what they raise here and
of how it grows, for if | was to do
it | think you would refuse to be-
lieve me. | am taking a lot of photo
graphs to take home with me to
prove the statements | make, and until
I get them | shall be very careful
about making statements. 1t is easy
to doubt the statements that we hear.
While | did not doubt the statements
COrbin made, yet it seemed to me that
they were too good to be true-half
would have been plenty and that is
The reason that | came OUT for my
self and | am mighty glad that came.
II is well worth the expense and more,
and | would advise you. if you can
possibly do it, that you jar loose i'm
mediately and come out. But come
prepared to buy, for know you can
not come here without buying-it is
not possible with a man who has at
least an ordinary noun OF business
acumen. Frank, | wish you were
here now. for | know that you would
90 home and fire that town of Brook
iHgS until every man there who had
the means to spare would come out
and investigate and buy. They could
not help it. The half has not been
told.
Now as to the beautiful and extras
Of life. You have seen some of the
pictures of the Palm Drive. Well, 1T
is here and there are II miles of it
the finest boulevard in the world.
Nothing like it anywhere. There are
hundreds of other enchanting spots
here that cannot be described and the
more / see of them the more they
impress me. When | first struck here
was paralyzed almost and they all
seemed so unreal, but now that have
lug around these patches OF beauty,
almost celestial, | have come to real
ize that it is all real. Farms fenced
with roses in bloom. Section lines
lined with palms and Towering oleand-
ers and roses and pampas. Roads In
the country so uncovered with beau
tiful shade trees that they have here,
that one is in continual shade. Roads
lined with figs and the ground cover
ed with them. Sections of vineyards
and many of them covered with drying
right now, from the second crop
and they are the finest that l "
Eight horse loads Of grapes
going to the wineries. And many
more things that are hard to believe.
1t Is winter here or rather the
dormant season and yet roses r In
full bloom, the shade trees are green
and 1t seems almost believable that 1t
Is the middle OF the summer, were
it not for the fact that several Of the
ANIMALS ara now resting. peODle on