Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-08-06

conductors either puzzled in the mat
ter issuing transfers. and unless knew just what
ask for he could tell how the conductor
might him to the exposition Starting at the same
point was routed four different ways by different
ductors and in the of three transfers
The object os the confusion, far could make out
was to conne the traffic system the other. All
this confusing to visitors. and the newspapers
calling upon the street interests to their
quarreng in the interest of the public convenience and
the good name of the city.
The best transportation service in and around San
Francisco is furnished by the magnificent ferry boats
which between that city and Oakland and other cities
the bay These boats will carry several peo
pie and provide every convenience for the busy They
leave the piers every half hour and the celebrity with
which the boat leaves gets under way and lands again is
most surprising. The boats doubleenders, and SO
there is no time lost in turning around.
No should make trip to San Francisco without
going to Mount Tamalpas the bay. One ascends
the mountain by the crookedest railroad the world the
longest piece of straight track being little 400 feet
long, The balance of the track winds and twists up the
mountain first way and then another curving this
and that by short that the engine handles
only two If the trains longer the would
portion of the train would be going in direction
and other portion in the directly opposite direction From
the top of the mountain obtains vew of the whole
of San Francisco bay and the cities surrounding it, and
the valleys back for hundred miles, 1t is view
to be forgotten.
Of coruse, have all kinds of country on this
trip and again will describe West Central Mime
sofa "good country" 1t is "excellent coun-
try The whole West coast from San Diego to Seattle
brags about its 'climate.'' and yet struck
refreshing shower from the time left Minnesota till
reached Spokane when returning In southern Cali
fornia the irrigated patches beautiful with the ar-
cia beauty of greenhouse while in the unwatered places
the gares down stretches of burning sand In
San Francisco, the mist and the clouds porend rain which
never comes at this season, and when evening
chill settles down and wakes the fever in your bones.
Two three days while was in the Puget Sound cities
nsueraby hot, and in the interior of Washington,
the dust terrific. Take away from the coast
try its much Wanted claim to delightful climate and
judge it by it's productivity and any advantage which
it may claim to have Minnesota vanishes South
California has not yet recovered from the
of three years ago, and business conditions not
good The beautiful orange groves which are the de-
light of the tourist described by those who know
to be mlonaire's plaything." Southern California
is reputed to live off the tourists and while this not
quite true yet the business of catering the tourists
to be of the principal occupations of that
ton. In other portion of the country are hotels
elegant, the business of entertaining
the public we'll developed. Even the BARRIERS will
charge a tourist Is cents for shave while the home
man pays only Is cents.
The Puget Sound country has been hit because the
lumber industry is dead and other portions been hit
because the fruit market is bad The amount of very
ordinary land by the way. which has been cut up into
lots and sold for frut land is scandalous and
there many places in which great quantities of fruit
roted last year for want of market and will rot this
year.
do not say but that there is good landsFrin the
West but the best has been fared for generation
two and commands price comparable with the same
quality of land here in the Central West The Willamette
Valley in Oregon and the Inland Empire in Eastern ash
ngton both wellsettled substantial countries where
staple crops raised These portions of the West are
not new-n fact were settled about the time Stevens
county settled before person can gothere
and buy ranch and by careful farming be assured al
good reurn-just the he can in any good coun
try.
The West is in chronic state of being overboomed
and it is suffering from that condition right now Still
the Westerner will boost. good illustration is the
stories they will tell about wheat yields Thew claim
that their what yields 40 60 bushels per acre which
is true, but the wheat is winter wheat and was SELLING
for 70 cents bushel on the day two weeks ag,
that wheat quoted at $1.35 bushel here Tn,