The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-04-08
A TalP I'll SOUTH
Bert Williams Gives an Entertaining
Sketch of His Trip West and
South During Winter.

South During Winter.
Springdale, Ark. March 20, 'O9
To ali old friends and acquaintance:
When we left your town last Octo-
Der, we promised to write. | am TAX
ing this means in writing SO that all
can read the letter and know where
we hav ebeen since leaving your
county. First, must say We will new
er forget the good people of your
section of South Dakota and our
minds often revert back to the hos
pitality shown to us there, and where
ever we go, will always have a kindly
feeling for the South Dakota people.
Mrs. Williams is feeling SO much
better aeld we can't say if it is the
c|ontinI changing of climates or
what tx IS doing the good work, as
she has gained 10 pounds.
We Ie1t your section OCTOBER L for
Minneapolis, where we bought tick
cts for Spokane, Wash, over the
Great Northern road. We remained
there one week. That is a pretty and
thriving western city. We left for
Seattle over the N. p. railroad stop
ping at North Yakima. Everything
there looked good to us. Land is
selling for 500 to $4,000 per acre,
and / could not see but what every
one was prosperous and happy. But
| did not want any of their high
priced land. We left there on the
10th. Seattle is busy getting ready
for their exposition this summer.
We left there on the 9th after Wis
iting all places of interest. We then
went to Portland and down to the
Rouge river country, Oregon, stop
ping at Medford, Ashland and Jack
! sonville. This is the land Of the big
red apple. The climate was de-
lightful and the western people all
very sociable. We met a great many
old friends there. Land is also high
there. At Medford it is selling from
500 to $500 per acre. They do
not irrigate there, but 1 was told
that every thing did better where
they could use irrigation some. ]
saw some fine fruit there. They take
the best of care of their orchards
and they always get good prices for
the fruit. We left there for Los
Angeles, Cal, for a short time with
Mrs. WIS sisters family, and on the
3Oth of November we started for
New Mexico over the S. P. railway.
Made A~lamagardo our stopping
place and that surely is the most de-
lightful climate and I believe the
place for consumptives to go Alama-
gardo is about $500 inhabitants and
think about 10 years since an i'm
provement club was organized tc
boom their town, and it surely has
done good work. There are trees
on both sides of the streets and they
have a park of so acres, filled with
ornamental shade trees. artificial,
lakes etc. The merchants have all 9
clean and up to date stock of goods
l could tell you so much of this place
which is very interesting but have
not time. Land adjoining town sells
for 500 to $500 per acre and the
the improvements are all added TIC
that. They irrigate here. There are
Opportunities in New Mexico but one
needs some amount of capital to get
a start.
We shook the Mexico dust from
our feet Dec. 22nd and left for Kan
sas City, Mo-, where we have been
ever since, until one week ago.
left Mrs. w. there and l came down
into Arkansas. l had heard of the
Ozark country and while so close ]
wanted to see old Arkansas. / stop
ped off at Rogers and was driven all
over that part. I then came down e
Springdale and this is certainly the
prettiest country and every Il is
prosperous. This is in Washington
county of $4,000 inhabitants, SPRING
dale is about 5000 and small towns
about every two and 4 miles apart,
and Fayetteville the county seat is
9 miles. The universities are also
located there. This is mostly all a
northern settlement through here
and there is push and get up here.
FOrchard after orchard and they are
still setting out ore | passed one
place where there was IN old gentle
man, about 65 or 20 years old help
ing to set out 8 acres of apples. ]
asked if he expected to reap the
benefits from them. He said, Sure
as no one died here. The climate is
certainly delightful and water pure.
There is a South Dakota immigra-