The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-12-30
REAL ESTATE MAN
WRITES EAST
Tells Readers of Cuba lilly
Journal Of Wenat-
chez Valley.

The following is a letter publish
ed in the Cuba, Illinois, Journal, OF
December 27th, from T. NJ. Widney.
a real estate man of this city:
Editor of Cuba Journal
| found it impossible to anticipate
Christmas by enough to get anything
in for your special Christmas num-
Der to be printed about the 18th of
December. 1t was too quick an adj
vance for one of my ponderosity.
And speaking of advance and
ponderosity--by which l here refer
to increase in physical bulk-an ac-
count of my personal growth, since
leaving Illinois, might interest my
old time friends among the Journal
readers. And to them and others,
might serve as an examule of what
this great northwestern country will
do for, or to, person.
/ would not think, for one very
brief spell, Of ieopardizing my repu-
tation for truth and veracity by tell
ing your readers even the conserva-
tive truth about this wonderful We
natchee valley, where the product
from one acre of orchard in one sea-
son is often enough to pay for a
Illinois farm-if the price of said
farm were based, as our acreage
values here are-on the average
value of the annual crop returns. !
How many of your readers would
believe that individual measured
acres of orchard in this valley, had
yielded over $4,000 in single sea-
sons crop and had duplicated this
yield in succeeding years.
Would any of them accept, with
out the grain Of salt" the record
of one of our apple growers here
who sold the first crop from his %
acre orchard of five and six year old
trees at $1S,700?
Would they ever take my word
for it, that an so acre orchard
four, five and six year old trees,
that have been put on the market at
1,000 per acre, have netted its own
er $500 per acre in crop the sue
ceeding season?
Truth along these lines is so much
stronger than the brand Of fiction
your readers generally indulge in
that one must needs tell only half
to be more than half believed.
To my own personal growth,
accrues development then
which can be most easily told about
and the facts, when placed before
your readers more readily negotiat-
ed and which / will try to make in
structive and, possibly, incitive to
action, by comparison with an
equal period of progression in ILL
nois precious to my migration here,
to this then l will return.
I left my beloved Cuba Is years
ago carrying with me very heavy
heart but with a total ensemble of
physical weight slightly below 176
pounds avoirdupois-twe lbs.
only of which had developed during
the Is years residence in Illinois
Immediately preceding my departure.
My weight now, after Is years of
life in this state is 247 IL pounds,
being an annual gain of almost three
times that made in your state.
When / left Illinois my family
consisted of one that is to say, of
| myself. Now there are three of us,
! nv wife. my baby and myself. A
numerical increase of 200 per cent,
isn't it?
| might here mention, though it
is beside the intent and general trend
| of this document-that power and
dominion in our household say
in orr household, using the plural
form adVisedly--is held. exercised
and enjoyed, by the individual men,
bers of said household in inverse
ratio to their respective weight and
age.
Thus, the baby, who lacks little
of being 4 years old, and weighing
40 pounds, is first in command and
supreme in authority. Mrs. w. (she
who was Lulu Nelson) is also much
lighter in pounds and younger in
years than | am. So that in weight
and years / am in the lead, but in
authority there are none under me.
Speaking along political lines:
During all the years ! exercised my
franchise back there" / never ad-
vanced enough in political independ-
cnce to scratch republican nominee
for any office above town clerk, for
a better man nominated on some
other ticket, had | remained there
probably would now have been sup
porting the Jackpot" policies that
seem to dominate there. Here
rarely vote for Il "standpat' repub-
lican and would have no scruples
against supporting good, clean,
| high minded, able socialist of the
milder brand against degraded lit
tie horse thieyins shysterene who
might be nominated as a republican
MI