The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-11-03

states are TOURISTS anu not arr ~
1t would not do to disparage the
value of either of these outputs to the
growth of the western country Tour
lists are a valuable harvest to any
community. Certainly the west has
plenty of them. A very large percent
age are from Iowa. This is because
Iowa people make more money and
consequently have more money to
spend on sightseeing than the resi-.
dents of any other state. The income
Of western cities from the tourists to-
tails. millions each year. And If it
were not for tourists some of, the
western cities would not survive.
| was told that Colorado Springs
has had poor season in the tourist
crop, due largely to exorbitant prices
asked of the guileless sightseer there,
The result has been some business
failures that the city would rather not
have mentioned. p
The hot air" crop is also worth
cultivating 1t yields heavily in the
west and the harvest is rapidly in
creasing population. Although resi-
dents of western cities knock" on
each other, you never hear one knock
on the community in which he lives
ITS the greatest place on earth and
| wouldn't go back east for chalk,
money or marbles" sars the boomer.
-. Boosting Pays Any Place.
Herein is another secret of the
western increase in population. Des
Moines has learned the value of com
munity pride and constant boosting.
Iowa at large is falling in line. Al
ready the result is noticeable in the
Hawkeye state. @...F
The chief difference between Iowa
and the western state in the manner
Of self.boosting is that Iowa has many
times more resources and certainties
to talk about than the western state.
why should the Iowa farmer eX
change his lot for a ten or twenty
acre tract out here?" was the question
/ asked myself many times as We
whirled along through mile after mile
of waste land in southern Wyoming
headed for the west.
To-day 4 am asking myself the same
question after travelling several hun
bred miles through waste land in 9th
er states, st
49, Much Waste Land. M,
! Some of this waste land is capable
i of being cultivated and when undel
Irrigation produces splendidly. Blu
by far the large portion cannot b.
REACHED with water The boastet
ltillable lands of California do no
cover more than one-fourth of thu
state-and that is putting 1t strong
To the man from Iowa who lives il
a a great state without an acre o
waste land, the tillable tracts of Cali
ifornia appear to be decidedly out
4 classed by the acreage that is no
available and probably never can b.
made so. 3 il ..-.:.'.
>. While We were skipping through
Idaho on fast Oregon Short Lin
train, a. Montana booster started
= fuss by declaring that Montana ha
more resources than Iowa. He refer
red to cattle as an example OF Mon
tana supremacy.
In less than ten seconds he wa
confronted with a bunch of govern
ment statistics which a man iron
d Council Bluffs had in his pocket
| Those statistics showed that low
, LEADS all other states in value OF cal
tie produced as we'll as in hogs. MOI
tana was shown far down in the lis
After fixing his optics upon this tabl
1.-The Montana man changed the sui
J, lject. A few facts like these will
= ways puncture the western mans he
! air cloud.
u Those Convenient Foothills.
! In many places where the land wa
t desolate and apparently uninhabited'
! asked the natives what 1t was goo
for. 60
= It's the greatest stock GROWN
} tcountry on EARTH" they would say
; Where, is the stock?" l. would ash
q Its over9in the foothills" was tn
| usual reply. These FOOTHILLS are thu
! livery convenient things to hay
around. 10
One booster in southern Oregon d.
/, clared, as we were travelling frol
Portland to Medford, that Oregon. wi
grow as good corn as Iowa. r
Oregon corn runs from fifty-fve
\ sixty-five bushels TO the acre" b
said. o.. ....
! Just then the train dashed past q
Oregon. corn field. The, stalks wer
two feet high and 1t would have bee
poor bet to wager that the output
the field was more than five bushel
an acre. &&s@s
; '1s that sample of your sixty-ay
bushel cofn?" asked.I@
mo. gbut there are plenty of field
4 over. towards the foothills that wi
70 that strong" he replied withou
blinking an eye.
Fruit Land Fakirs. tf
JFhe fruit land faKir is very niue
! abroad in the wild and woolly ives
|, In fact, am convinced that the heav
J profits made in fruitEland are not frol
+. Ethe amounts of fruit produced. but !
/ selling the land at fictitious valu
Ito a sucker from the east.
} This does not mean that there ism
lunlandid frliit nroduced in the ives