The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-07-23
CROP PROSPECTS FOR THE INLAND
EMPIRE WERE NEVER BRIGHTER

Ter pOrClOn OF our readers are and
have been extremely busy this sea-
son with their farm and other work
have not had the time to take a trip
over the country to view conditions
in other localities, we will try to
give you sketch of the country as
we have seen it in the past two
weeks. First, upon Sunday morn
ing July 4th, the editor and family
accompanied by Miss Margaret
Terry in the editors car, DR.. J. E.
Hoyt and wife in their car and G.
G. Oldfield and wife and little son,
Max, in their car departed at the
hour of four in the morning for
Spokane. Washington. We started
up the grade from Kendrick with
the view of making a record run to
the metropolis of the Inland Empire.
The morning was the kind that auto
drivers like and the dust of the old
Potlatch was made to fly from the
wheels. In due time the party
arrived in Moscow where the resi-
dents of the county seat were still
sleeping away the Sunday morning
hours. From Moscow we started
for Palouse and short way out of
Moscow we landed into a strip of
country where the rain man had
just finished sprinkling the roads
and he did good job of it, judging
from the manner in which the cars
took to the different sides of the
road at their own pleasure. Short
ly we stopped at fine farm
house to inquire the way. All at
once we heard familiar voice and
next we were shaking hands with
our old friend, Martin Schei, who
was much surprised and pleased to
see some one from Goods country,
Martin has fine crop and reports
that he is doing fine. Then on our
way we went from town to town
until at last we found ourselves in
Spokane where the party separated,
each going to parts of the city where
they had relatives and friends they
expected to visit. Now comes
week in the city with your own con-
veyance to allow you to come and
go at your own will. The entire
week was spent by the editor and
his brother-in-law and others driv-
ing over the outlying districts of
the wonderful country surrounding
the city on the hill. We took pains
to look at the farming country, as
that is what we are most interested
in, and we found after driving in
all directions from the city that
crops looked we'll and that crops of
most all kinds were growing, some
small in size while others were
something like normal in size. Then
in the evenings came the city side
of life, down town to see the movies
and other amusements, parks and
all their rustic and hum. One
thinks that there is nothing like it,
but soon one tires and the coin of
the realm becomes to run short,
then the visitor will begin to think
of home and wonder how people
can keep up the pace. We can
imagine how they do it. 1t is not
the same bunch every night, and it
is not all together the one that really
deserve those things that are partici-
pating in them. The laboring man
as rule is not having those good
times. Times in a business way in
this great metropolis are dull, men
are out of employment, hundreds
are wondering where the next meal
is coming from. The great city
keeps moving on, just because it has
no place to stop. The laboring man
is paying the fiddler by the sweat of
his brow and the more fortunate
one is having the pleasures. After
week taking in the sights from
both city and country life, we crank
ed up our wagon and started for
the good old Potlatch, by a differ.
ent route to which we went. We
had the pleasure of seeing the beau.
tiful ranch of j. F. Scheele, formally
of Leland. He is building a large
barn of immense size and of modern
equipment. Soon we met an
other old timer of the Potlatch
E. Harms, who we chatted with fol
few seconds. Our intentions were
to visit with these friends, but thu
heavens looked as through they were
going to sprinkle the roads again 81
on we came through the great Pa
louise country known all over thu
world as the garden spot of th'
world. Crops are wonderful, condi
tions are at their best. and tn,
farmer is wearing one of those Ions
smiles that won't come off. Afte
making stops in the little cities O.
Colfax and Moscow, we then turneC