The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-10-31

south are going to offer excellent op
portunities to the northwestern fruit
grower to work out plans Of distrlbu
/ tion for the disposal of his increasing
product. While in many places it i
still in stage of incubation and moi
yet hatched, new spirit is stealing
over the old south. Indeed, the days
Of the old South are passing. The Land
OF negroes and cotton, possums and the
mule is in state of transition. Every.
where one feels the touch of a coming
progress and prosperity in the atmos-
phere. One who has never lived in the
region might not be able to detect in
the remoter regions just at present,
but Tor one was reared there and who
has been absent for a long peroiod. the
progress that already has been made
is at once noted.
The construction of tie Panama can
al seems to have caused the Awakening.
Not railroad crossing the continent
longitudinally but that is now at work
increasing the efficiency and capacity
OF It's service. The most of the roads
are double tracking their systems.
The railroads have seemed apathetic
and have failed in the past to give the
south due publicity. However, they
are now taking it up and are begin
ning broad campaigns. The Illinois
Central lines are issuing bulletins, the
general tone of which is: go south,
young man.
A western man would be surprised at
the large tracts of cheap and undevel-
oped land that awaits Improvement.
However, the young men of the sec
tlon OF the country are coming to real
lze that new order of things must
come about and they are beginning to
throw off the yoke of old customs,
which prevail longer there than in any
other part of the country. Even today
there is felt that old time indifference
and hatred of manual labor that pre-
vailed among the white population be-
fore the war, but the younger men are
gradually growing away from it. For
merly young men thought the only kind
OF an education worthy of an ambition
was that of the classical languages
More and more of them are now attend
ing the agricultural college, learning
now to scientifically cultivate the large
tracts, which until a few years ago
were thought worthless. The federal
and state governments lave aided
in correcting this erroneous idea
and lands that ten years ago could not
be sold for the taxes are now, after
applications of lime and phosphoric
acid, brought to high state of pro-
ductivity.
Although in the past decade there
has been heavy immigration from the
south to the middle west and Texas.
but few have come to the northwest.
They have known but little about the
northwest, the citizens of which have
centered to too great an extent their
publicity campaigns on the east and
the northern portion of the middle
west. Why they should leave the south
for these places, many of those who
have migrated have never been able to
find out and numbers are returning
For with the exception of the Pacific
coast countries, the region south OF
the Ohio offers as good climate, barring
that of the malaria infected districts
as any portion of the country.
/ And among the people Of the NOR
thickly settled portions of the east an
north who are going to seek nev
homes, where better opportunities offe
themselves, the south is going to b.
the strong competitor of the west; de
spite the great factor of genial climes
And this because of the many districts
where there are large tracts of unde
veloped cheap land.
j. d. r.