Morris tribune., 1908-03-07
FROM A. r. PUSHOR.
Interesting Letter from rlorrisite at
Spokane.

Spokane, Wash. March 1, 1908.
EDITOR TRIBUNE: We are having
nice weather here most of the time
had little snow here yesterday and
rain this forenoon, but it is all right
now. We went to the funeral of an
old soldier this morning; there was
large crowd.
We like it out here pretty well if
we did not have anything there to be
freting about. I think we could make
up our mind to live out here, but as it
is we are not settled in either place.
This country is ali right to live in. T
never have been healthier in my life
than out here. am Is pounds
heavier than when came here, and
Mrs. Pushor weighs III pounds that
looks as tho she liked it pretty well.
Her health is good and she would
rather live here If she could have her
| old neighbors with her, but we have
got to come back and see the folks.
There are few of the Morris people
here and we see them once in a while.
This is one of the best farming
| countries that I ever saw-can grow
| the most with the least work. l was
out to see Mr.. Dyes folks few days
ago and you ought to hear him talk.
He says he is going to live where he
| is and die there. He has Is tons of
cabbage ricked up in the field where
they have laid all winter and they
| are as nice as when they were put
there last fall, FortY-fve bushels of
potatoes piled out in the field, and you
never saw better. They have pota-
toes that will weigh five pounds and
he has all kinds of fruit. He looks
just like a genuine hayseed, and
Henry is about the same thing. They
struck good thing.
But this is the hardest town I was
ever in. A man is not safe if he has
got one dollar in his pocket in the
night. Some one will get it. They
hold up everybody that has any money
| and it is about as bad in the stores.
It is about the same as a holdup to
| buy anything.
| Pine wood costs about the same as
| maple does in Morris. Flour is worth
$50 for so pounds, and wheat is
worth about 20 cents. Potatoes are
worth IS cents for 100 pounds, and
everything is about the same. Butter
is 40 cents, eggs are 40 cents now.
Wages are good and it takes all that
the average man can earn to live. If
! a man has to rent place to live in,
he has to give from $15 month to
$40. Fifteen dollars is poor rent and
| $40 is good-that means a modern
house turnout.
1t looks as tho there would be quite
a lot of work this season. but you
can't tell. There may be another
money panic before fall. Bryan has
lot of friends here, think more
than Taft has, but we can't tell yet. |
There are quite lot of the old resi-
dents of Spokane came from Mime
sofa, and they don't like to hear that
there has not been more snow in
Minnesota than there has been in
Washington this winter. I throw it
up at them every time get chance,
but it is a fact that this is good
place to spend winter. There has
not been day this winter that I
could not work bare handed. The
two coolest days we had I happened
to be to work and it was not bad at
all.
But would not advise anyone that
has got place to stay to pull up and
come out here to make much of a |
sacrifice, for he don't know what he |
must run against. 1t would be "strange
people in strange land" You let |
man come in here and there will be |
dozen land men after him and they !
will every one of them tell him the |
truth just the same as all of the land |
men do all over. They seem to be |
all alike. 1 think some of them must |
come from Minnesota.
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