The Harrison times., 1911-06-10
Still in the Far West.
SPOKANE, WASH, May %, 1911.

Idaho district. Haden Lake proper
is n small mountain lake with 81
miles of water edge.
1t is quite resort for those who
have plenty to let 60 1t has the
finest hotel in many miles around
where money-bags may lay up a
supply of gout that will worry them
as long as they need gout, Wis
tied several mining prospects near
the lake but they did not appeal to
me as bonanzas that would cause a
modern miner to toss his derby in
the air or make an investor caulk
himself getting there with the long
green. Usually | am pretty quick
to get enthused over mining inter
ests but take to some properties
with the caution of a COW sample
ing pumpkin pie.
There is not much doing at this
date in any line The lumber inter
est is dragging along with two
thirds of the mills shut down. No
Railroad building of any conse-
quence, except the north coast is do
ing some little construction work
near Spokane.
Fruit planting is done for this sea-
son. Weather conditions have been
severe on all kinds of fruit and truck
farming. The labor conditions are
bad through the entire west, and
the country full of idle men while
those employed receive small wages.
There is increasing complaint
among all classes of business of
great decrease in trade. A good
wheat prospect is reported in both
the Palouse and Wenache districts
but neither are very large districts
and can afford only local benefits
| see nothing in this country that
excells the East and many ways my
old favorite stamping ground ARK
ansas) has this country skinned |
forty miles of city blocks. This
country is based on the high tension
system things move because they
make them move. These fellows
around Spokane eat 90 cent meal
in three minutes and in ten minutes
have bought railroad, equipped a
special and started across the con-
tinent before dinner. Business men
,laim to like Spokane as a residence
town because people here have no
time to fool away dying ! don't
ike the West for the same reason
he old negro give up the race with
he Jack rabit Its too swift
And | take this opportunity, with
your permission to advise my Boone
county friends to just keep holding
lown that little apple orchard and
alfalfa field. Don't be afraid the
world is running away from YOU,
ord knows they are all coming
back to YOU With grip of exper,
ence and pocket full Of repentance
where they use to jingle the coin,
Now don't forget, and for fear YOU
10, cut this out and paste one copy
IN your,Iug stopper, and one on the
ooking glass SO that each member
If the family can see it every hour
n the day.
You have in Arkansas the sweet
st sunshine that ever colored pip
n or kissed a rose. The mellowest
that ever sparkled in
dewdrop, or trembled on
the lips of a mountain maid. Your
breezes that sweep the
Doughs of the stately pines are more
Ior health than those that toss wild
Orgories across the salten sea, And |
their rich aroma fingers in the men,
orv like a breath blown from n lake |
of lilies. Within your very door
way is growing that fruit that
nothing of its kind on this continent |
can excel and it will be picked and |
pared and made into pie by matron-
" hands of Southern skill that will |
inject into its composition an extra
flavor that would make a gorged !
cpicure repeat the Oliver Twist re-
quest,
Look at all the good things and
be thankful and grudge the west
Take my advice stay in
old Arkansas and be glad of it,
Indeed never miss an opportunity
to tell people | am from Arkansaw.
It's hard on Arkansaw of course
but it makes me feel good to tell it.
Your friend
II. DERRIEUX.