The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-06-30
TOURIST VIEWS
NATURES WONDER
MIR. J. P. Conner Tells Of the Great
West and the Beautiful Scenery
to be Encountered.
FORMERLY "AMERIcAN DESERT
Visits Both California Expositions
and Tells Of Their Mag
nitudc and Beauty.

Editor Review:
A trip from DenisOn to the Pacific
coast over one of the southern routes
and from the Mexican border north
along the coast up to Vancouver in
Canada and east over the Canadian
Rockies via Calgary, Moosejaw and
st. Paul, back to Denison furnishes
an exhibition of nature which it would
be difficult to duplicate in this or any
other country.
We are all quite familiar with the
country, but few OF US understand
what there is to see in the vast region
west and north OF us, between here
and the Pacific coast. When Pixies
Peak first comes into view on the out
ward trip there is scarcely an hours
ride from there to the coast that one
is not confronted with natures Won
ders and so absorbed the traveller be.
comes in the view. on either hand,
that distance is lost sight OF in the
admiration of the revelations which
nature furnishes.
Another thing impresses traveller
and that is that the wilderness OF th'
west is being transformed and made
to bloom as the rose. Vast areas OF
country, which formerly produced
nothing but sage brush and the wild
cactus, are now brought under sub
lection and growing crops are the re-
suit. A large portion of the wester'l
land has been reclaimed through
means of irrigation and the farmers
of Iowa are now in competition with
what they produce with the west
ern farmers living on what was for
merly regarded as THE Great Ameri-
can Desert A cursory view OF the
west and northwest furnishes ample
evidence that this year will produce
the largest crops that have ever been
produced in the same territory. This
condition is true from the Mexican
s5;sader on thes south to. the extreme
S Nern portion OF Canada.
KS&ile nature is showing such pro-
ksfty in the crops it can not be
tylEhat business generally shows an
ssSa.ovement over what 1t has been
STthe past. In all the cities along
ZIG 4 dCIHC Soiit'ltiiht hSoio "
lat times are hard, laborers out OF
employment and business is stagnat-
ed. You ask one man the cause and
lie will tell you that it is the fault of
the policies of the democratic party;
another will say that OverprOduction
accounts for the condition, while 9th
e,s maintain that the war in Europe
istO blame for the unsatisfactory con-
ditions. think there is little eX-
cuse for charging the want of bust
ness activity to the foreign war for.
in my Judgment, the United States in
a business way has derived some
profit from the war. 1t has. at least.
increased our market for what we pro-
duce and have to sell over what it
otherwise would have been. 1t is per-
. haps not necessary to spend time
seeking the cause of the unsatisfac-
tory business conditions OF the west.
but we can not refrain from mention
ing a fact. which is apparent to every
traveller going from the middle west
to the coast.
There is no question but what both
farmer and merchant in this locality
are favored over the business man and
farmer of either the east or the west.
As long as we are able to produce
good crops in the central portion OF
the country and can dispose OF them
at good prices, as well as the other
products of the farm, there is no dan
GER of being robbed of our prosperity
and while the war in Europe lasts
there is little question but what we
will be able TO receive a fair price at
least for the products of the farm.
One discovers in the western coun.
try a large number of laboring men
out of employment. In going about
the streets of city like Los Angeles
attention is called to the fact that SO
many people are on the street at all
hours OF the day and night, and, nat.
urally, the impression grows on you
that business must be active in order
10 account for SO many people being
upon the streets, but upon inquiry
YOU are told that large number OF
these people are out of employment
and are earning no salaries whatever
and if this is true it only proves very
unsatisfactory condition.
We were told that many people who
had rushed to the rapidly developing
cities of the west few years ago fof
investments have been disappointed
in the various venture. in which they
have engaged and their profits have
dwindled to the point where they are