Arizona republican., 1910-10-05
SUMMER OUTING IN
 NORTHERN FARMLAND
R. H. GREENE ANND MRS. E. s. GRIFFIN RETURNED HOME
 YESTERDAY.
Travels Included Two Enjoyable
 Voyages Along Western Coast.

R. H. Greene and his sister, Mrs ! E. $. Griffin, returned home yester- | day from a real vacation trip upon which they entered June first. They
 come back feeling just as good as
 they could hope to, well pleased with
 the manner in which the summer | has been spent and enjoying the best ! of health. Most of the time was | spent in a visit to a sister, Mrs. | Blanchard, who with her son lives
 on 8 poultry and fruit ranch about a mile from the little town of Bir- | mirgham, Washington, and near by | a delightful trout stream on which is proudly anchored smooth sailing motor boat that has been at MT. Grcene's disposal all summer, and has
 not been neglected.
 MT. Greene has made this little | farm more or less famous by his pre- vious reports of it's beauty and its delightful surroundings for vacation I purposes. Annually he trks to the 1 Washington woods and breaks into | the little clearing to enjoy his sum. II mer revels, eat cherries, for the best
 in the world are among the products of this farm, and to troll the brook for the unwary trout. Annually he comes back with beaming counte-
 nance. sunburned face and new in spiratiOn respecting the future of the Salt river valley, for while Washing l ton is a beautiful place in which to 1 live during the summer time,N for ! those who would win fame and for
 tune there is no place under the
 blue value that can compare with
 the home land.
 ! MT. Greene insists that this sum mer was spent very largely in manu- ! al labor down on the farm, begetting i him an incomparable digestion and
 an appetite with which to supply it. The prOvender was already there.
 He says that some days he would en- | gage in general farm work for as
 much as half a day at a time and
 never get tired, but his preference
 was to eat cherries and cast the in
 viting fly to the nimble trout. Re | specting the material welfare of the
 country. he says the bottom lands are
 quite productive for timothy. oats | and clover and the dairy business, and those who farm them are pros porous but they are not of much val
 uc for general and diversified crops 1 The uplands are scant of fertility and 1 those who own them live without | hope of opulence. The bottom lands
 are valued at from $500 to S40O per acre Timber lands that have been | logged and are now covered with
 brush and stumps are valued at s100 and it costs s150 to clear them and then as indicated only certain products can be successfully raised ! and these are mostly fruit so that
 price of land considered, he does not regard it as country of great prom lse for the poor man. However. he
 did not enlarge upon these things
 While there for he was not seeking to disturb the peacefulness of those who
 are anchored to the country. nor
 was he looking for business. he was just resting. But withal he couldn't
 help telling a few of his friends and
 acquaintances of the wonderland of the south and he rather expects some
 of them will be calling on him dur
 ing the coming season. - The trip from Phoenix to Washing ton and back again was a delightful
 one. After leaving here they stopped
 month Tn Los Angeles. then board the steamship Governor at Re
 dondo, for Seattle, and then to the
 vacation grounds. Returning they took passage in the President a sister
 ship of the Governor and returned
 to Redondo, spending three weeks in
 or near Los Angeles before coming home. Both voyages were incom
 parable and the boats are described as ideal. Neither MT Greene. Mir. Griffin, nor anybody else was sick on either trip, even though Mrs. Griffin is quite subject to nal de mer. The boats rode smoothly and the weather was fine. Ineed it was fine all sum- mer as only half an inch of rain Tell during their stay on the farm. It was what might be called a drouth in that country, though summer is the normal dry season.
 While in Los Angeles on the way home MT. Greene took particular pains to visit the branch of the Phoenix board of trade for he was one of the earliest advocates of that enterprise. He says it is nicely fit ted up. and the people are showing l marked interest in what is going on. Mrs, Cowgirl, who is in charge, | he says is all right, is much inter | ested in her work, and knows how to talk to people and what to say to them. He believes the branch will l very quickly demonstrate its value | to this valley and that during the | months to follow many will be di- | verted into this valley through its influence.
 Tn that connection MT. Greene took | occasion to compliment The Repub- lcan m its editorial of yesterday