The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-07-18
MANY N|NOT PEOPLE ARE
RESIDENTS OF PORTLAND
II e McFaII Tells Of Many Former
Residents Win Are Ltvlna In the
West-Many Would Be Glad to
Return

of on interior decorate" AlthO Mac
is one of the very best in cis v'"s-s-
sion, he says one is lucky to exc out
an existence in the west and he is
glad to get back. His nessage to all
Minot people is to remain where they
are if they are doing lust fairly we'll.
Portlond is very quiet ! are AL
western cities. Business has. been
over done. Twenty Thousand people
are walking the streets Of Portland
today looking for work at any price.
Mac tells of Pennsylvania who
worked in canning factory for
$1.75 per day and it took months
for him to get enough ahead TO buy
ticket for himself and family to
return to their native state. There
are some good advertisers in The
west. The westerners have lived
mainly of from suckers from the
east and as long as the sucker crop
is good, they thrive nightly. Land
has advanced bast mainly because
the suckers were willing to pay the
price, altho much Of the $2ce per
acre land this year is raising wheat
that averages only ~ bushels to the
acre and the westerner thinks the
Yield is ne. The fruit growers are
not making much money, except
some of the larger ones. Mac says
Strawberries sold for 8 boxes for
quarter the week he left and you
can't pick them for that price.
Thousands of bushels we're left to
rot on the vines, because the grow
ers would lose less than if they
picked them. The growers OF cherries
have to 20 out into the orchards at
night and burn the caterpillars' nests
with torches. Mr.. McFal1 says Port
land is beautiful city. Rent Is
reasonable and if one has q good in
come, it is q great place to live. TIE
surrounding country, however, be
says, is the land Of sand and sage
brush and little money W. %@sta .~ss'5'.a
He saw Sam Clark at the, Elks'
convention at Portland. Clark had
his Jim Jam Jem signs hung Up about
the city and he had also done some
advertising in Seattle, Tacoma and
Spokane. - .a
George Burke and Nick Hendrlck-
son, two former Minot aldermen are
located in the Burke building (Which
George does not OWN engaged In
a real estate business. George had
$4,000 in cold cash when he left
Minot, but he made some mighty
Door investments in, the west and
dropped his wad.
Ira Cunningham who worked Tor
Smallwood in the early days, he's
become the head of the Occidental
Life Insurance Co at Portland and
is coming the money hand over fist.
" L. O. Hughes, a former Minot
jeweler, has fine jewelry store at
269 WASHINGTON St. He has built a
fine house and is prospecting. n
Earl M1sGinpisL who worked AZ
1T &c
ployed at the Washington Public
market. ~ .,.s 74 rial ..sssa gtsl "a
A. D. Fish, who managed the
Rogers Lumber yard in the early
days has patented a suspender buc.
kle and expects to make a million.
a +. W. Tasker and sons are con
nected with the Farm Loan Co. Ut
which Mr.. Tasker is treasurer.
Fred Ripley has sold his barber
shop in Portland and Is now farming
in southern Oregon.
W. n. Sibbald is working tor
law firm and attending a law col
lege at night, making excellent proe-
rese. &
M. J. barrett, former Minot At
torney, 10 in the law partnership
with one Farrari, q noted italian at
torney. z ss
Emery Olmstead, cashier Of the
Union National bank IN the early
days, ID the "King Pin" OF finance
in Portland and sends IFS regards TO
his old Minot friends. He is Presl-
dent Of the Portland Trust Co., one
Of the city's strongest financial IN
stitutons. M
Mr.. McFall met G. W. Connor, :
former cement walk builder Of MI
not. IN Portland. Mr. Common had
,ust cleaned up $4,000 on : big cement ut
contract at Hood River.
Ed reverence who - located q
sxanfleld, Ore, Ii buying up 81 the
land in sight and seems to Be doing
we'll.