The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-04-20
TINE GOOD OLD STATE

Jensen OF Wyndmere is descrip-
tive Of his western trip from
which he returned last week:
Zone does not see much seen.
cry along the Yellowstone river
and there is not much farm land,
Near Billings. Montana, there are
large cattle and sheep ranches.
Butte is a mining town of 10000
people, a rough place at night.
around Spokane there are large
wheat fields and orchards. took
IN the big apple show while there
and saw the greatest exhibit had
ever seen. After one leaves Spok-
ane there are miles and miles of
desert. The next stop was Il.
North Yakima. where | visited
with O. $. Hanson four days. Here
l saw fine fruit valley. They al
so raise hops, and alfalfa and
carry on dairying. hut never the
less. they have hard time max
ing ends meet. We next crossed
the Cascade mountains for Seattle
where | spent two days. Seattle is
very clean city with many parks.
1t rained every day as it was their
rainy season.
'The next stop of any import
ance was Portland a rough city,
and walled in on two sides by
mountains. From there l left for
the Big Four, stopping first at Sa-
cramento. The Grand valley one
hears SO much about, to me 1t
did not look SD prosperous as
had expected. While there were
many good fruit farmers, the ma
jority of them had no better
homes than are to be found in
North Dakota. The people have ia
contend with rains in the winter
and floods from the mountains
and in the summer time it is nee
essary to irrigate. The Exposition
was good and contained many
wonders. The main flagpole was
$50 feet long and contained 5000
feet. Another log I saw contained
10000 feet. From the fair
went to Pasadena, the finest cit,
in the west, we'll one might say
in the world. Here one never coult
get tired of visiting. 1t has fin,
parks and the country surround
ing with it's orange and lemon
groves is just as inviting as Pasa.
dena, all of which is wonder C
anyone who has never been west
I! Los Angeles is city Of abou
100000 and has many idle men
The fair at San Diego was rather
tame. This city boasts of the
biggest hotels in the world.
visited Old Mexico where I saw the
marks of war. The houses III
small towns were riddIed with
bullet holes.
My trip east from California
was not of much note. For 10000
miles one sees nothing but a
worthless country. New Mexico
has some good farm land east OF
city of Las Vegas, but the altitude
is 5000 feet above sea level, SO
the season is very short. Through
western Kansas it is mostly sand,
but when they can irrigate they
raise good alfalfa and stock. Ok
lahOma has her trouble with hot
winds and Iowa lost her corn crop
''The west as a whole has a
fine climate and southern Cali :
fOrnia can't be beat during the
winter months but how about the
blistering summer months. The
west is no place for laborine
man or small businessman. Fruit
raising is overdone and more is
raised than can be sold at a pro-
fit. In this territory they do not
eat much of their own fruit and
serve about the same as we do at
! home.
II now have been i'm forty states
east, south and west and can still
say l am glad live in North Da-
k"ta, because one can. at least,
raise enough to eat. No matter
where one goes, there are draw.
backs, and we can truthflly say
our state has few as any. Some
have fine climate. but one cam
not depand entirely on climate for
a livelihood"