The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-30
All Needed the Money

''' We feed hogs upon it. Come in
and have dnner!'
81 accepted. though I did not like
the way he coupled his words. At din
nor he explained that il was upon their
corn and hogs that they depended To
get a little money.
Just TO Get the Money.
'"It WAS so cold | turned south again
and next time brought up IN lumber
cnmp in Arkansas The mon were
curious about my flyer One offered me
81 if | would take him 10 sec his girl
who lived thirty miles away. and bring
him back IN the morning lie sad J
might spend The evening with the girl :
older sister, who was widow and
who was a daisy: that she was not as
pretty as her sister, but had more cX-
pcricncc They told me all about the
lumber business, how many thousand
feet they had scnt away during the
season. how many laths and shingles
they had shipped, how much of the
lumber was clear and how much com.
mon. and whom | asked them what
use they had for so much lumber, they
told me that il was TO get the money.
81 At daylight next morning | started
again. headed west, and sailed All day
and night, and at daylight of the sec
ond day passed over tho Yosemite and
saw the big trees, and SAW them in all
the glory of the dawn, Later seeing
beautiful valley and being hungry. !
put on brakes. touched the up and down
adjustcr and desc ended. ] found | was
III Fresno valley. California and land
ed In q big vineyard, and looking
around found | was where the ralsln
grape was cultivated.
"I made n breakfast on half-curcd
raisins. for there they put layer of
4. lax l.tI h.n
sun do the work, until the box is filled,
put n cover on over it and then it be-
comes n box Of raisins,
"A man came along after while
and when ] asked him what III the
world they wanted Of so many raisins,
he replied: 'Wc do not want the rails
ms, the world wants them. and that is
our only way to get money
Sailed Over Shasta.
~ boarded my flyer and sailed down
the san Joaquin valley to Stockton.
then across to Sacramento. then M the
Sacramento valley past Mount Shasta
and the big pines of the Siskiyous, Old
Shasta had his first winter dressing Of
snow lie WAS white as an alabastcr
great monument 10 Omnipotence, but
under a rising sun his crest turned TO
purple and gold, and my hat came off,
as though the majestic mountain was
the great Jehovah.
"I could not but compare in thought
the sugar pines of the SiskIyous with
the stuff they called timber in Arkan.
sas Why, one Of those pines would
make more lumber than an acre of tim
Der in Arkansas, | sailed on up the
Rogue river vallcy-there rs no fairer
vallcv-crosscd the Umqua and. down
the willamette. The trees were loaded
with magnificent red apples. When
reached the Columbia | turned up
stream, passed over the Cascades. with
Mount Hood on my right, old Mount
Rainier and Adams on my left, and The
impression il gave me was that the
Americans who go TO the Alps for seen
erv never realized what the scenery is
where rolls the Oregon. and hence
arc content with small things.
Still Need the Money.
E'T sailed on up the great river, into
northern Idaho and into cloud of sui
phurous smoke, ] knew was over the
Occur d'Alencs. and, about worn out,
descended near a smelling plant The
men welcomed me heartily, for as n
rule 7 am at home in a mining camp,
7 spent the night with them. They told
me how much ore they were reducing
every twentv-four hours and | asked
them why they were tearing down the
mountains in that way and they re
Piled
- The world needs the money
''Thcn / realized that mining was
not like other occupations. 4 great
crop in one state makes the crops in
other states less valuable. but tho pro
ceeds of a precious metal mine enhances
the value of all other products. for the
volume of money in any country regu-
lates the prices Of all other products.
81 spent the night there and next
morning, following the line of the rail
road, passed over Anaconda and Butte.
then on TO the Yellowstone park, ]
rooll in its geysers for an hour or two,