The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-05-06
MAJOR FRED R. REED
STILL BOOSTING IDAHO
HE WRITES A CHAT A TT lsTgc
LETTER ON BEAUTIES OF
CALIFORNIA.

a member Of the general staff of the
Panama Pacific exposition. is still
loyal to Idaho as will be seen from the
/ following letter:
They aught to pass a law down here
making the autos shorter so they
could get more of them on the road
Between jitney buses, wild eyed re-
formers and cafeterias, they have a
hot time in this mans country, They
say you can tell a man or woman who
across the front of their vests, where
they carry their trays.
California is a wonderful state. With
1900 mines of coast line. A land of di-
versified resources with climatic con-
ditions that creates 1t the playground
for the whole United tSates, and the
Iwinter-summer land for the eastern
people by the thousands
On the California beaches you see
humanity in all shapes, forms and
colors; the rich, the poor the high an6
low, the good and the bad, all touching
elbows Some glad. others sad, some
proud of their ancestry and others like
my friend the mule, without pride Of
ancestry or hope of posterty, It's .
great human game; played with al
kinds of cards, most of them marked
decks.
Being from Idaho With the pun
gent odor of sagebrush clnging to my
architecture am looked upon A.
harmless, and allowed especial priVi-
lege everywhere, as long as ! have the
price,
Boosters Extraordinary.
Talk about boosters" In Idaho Say
people, the Idaho booster looks like
three copper pennies on section OF
land. They can boost longer and
louder here and get away with 1t bet
ter than any place in the world Cali
fornia beats Idaho In this respect
They fight like bull dogs and then ge'
down to business and stick together
and are most glorious in their loyalty
to California while in Idaho they fight
all the time and never get together
Seven countless in southern Calfor-
MIA put up four hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to boost their re-
spective. counties at the Panama Pa.
cific exposition and the Panama Call
fornia exposition at San Diego, ana
YOU don't hear them talking about i
continually but they are busy, believe
me- and making every lick count for
their counties and California.
Haymakina.
The California people are taking
advantage of the fact that the two
great exoositions are attracting tens
of thousands of people to the state
and are all working hard to interest
the stranger, leaving no stone UNI
turned to utilize the opportunities Of
fered by virtue of the expositions Tor
advertising and displaying their pro-
ducts and resources in an Intelligent
and beautiful manner. California, as
a state will he wonderfully henehteo
bv the expositions as well as the coast
and intermountain states. The daily
now at San Francisco
sixty thousand. at San Diego eigh
thousand.
have southern California, Arizona
New Mexico, Texas and Colorado a
my field at present and am seeing
lot of new things and territory be
sides my work which is interesting.
am gathering some material for boo
of western life, love, conquest and de
velopment. which 7 viii lwork out late
when return to Idaho.
Like Imperial Valley.
like Imperial valley as an agr1
cultural and stock raising country tn
best of naything I have seen IN m
travels so far. Imperial valley is thu
home of Harold Bell Wright, thf
famous novelist. He had made I'M
perial valley famous by his book, "Th'
Winning Of Barbara Worth Thf
character of "The Seer" is my ole
friend C. r. lockwood, who Is nov
the engineer in charge of the grea'
irrigation system that waters lmperla
valley.
Loves California.
Later will write up California IF
sections and pay tribute to the mer
and women of this great state, WIZ
bv their brains, LOYALTY and inteiI1'
gent work are making this land habi'