American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-07-13
DAN TELLS AGRICULTURAL LOAN
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all these sheets u on one line and
get them all cleaned up in one
batch.
How you fellows get busy and ans
wer this letter SO that / will know
whether I'm going to get this money
before snow flies or not. One Dutch
man said to me If somebody hadn't
borrowed me de money. I'd be in a
hell of a feex," You remind me Of
the time we had smallpox in the
lumber camp. The fellows that had it
all died before the doctor got there
and that's what's going to happen
to us farmers. We're going broke
waiting for you fellows to take turns
Arawing your salary and expenses
and making trips around the coun-
try inspecting. I got a hen setting
in the mail box and it looks like we
would both be grandmothers before
we could get any mail from your
corporation. If you n Johnson
amt got time to write, have one of
them 50 varieties of blondes you got
around your office write it. If John
son does write tell him for me to put
his signature on the same side as the
date and My Dear Sir on the other
so he'll have more room for the de-
TAILS. AS far as / can see I'd stand a
better chance of removing wet goods
from a bonded warehouse under the
Volstead Act than ] do to get any
money from the Wal Finance Cor
poration through your outfit. land
another thing, ! find you fellows
only want to put enough money on
my outfit to get me a new spark plug
and / suppose if my brother and his
wife and my neighbors would put in
what stuff they have so I could get
enough more to buy a whip stock
and then hook up old Dobin and
Maud to haul the car, because III
couldn't get enough to buy gas and
oil.
/ don't want to say anything to
hurt your feelings or Mr.. Johnson's
either, but it seems to me that you
could take some of the money you
are getting on commissions from
writing hail insurance, and instead
of spending it to equip your office
with elegant furniture, etc, let us
farmers write our hail insurance at
home, where the agent will take a
note for the premium without a
chattel mortgage covering every
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the mex three years.
Your asking for signature of land
lords is sure a beaut. It's a fine
thing where a renter don't have any
thing, but in this country where al
man OWNS five thousand dollars
worth of equipment or more, and
from a half to asecion or more, and
then rents his neighbor's quarter
and a few hundred acres Of State
land, and offers you security on his
2-3 interest in the crop IN the rent
ed land, you want the landlord to
sign, and a receipt for cash rent
from the State, and maybe the land-
lori is in New York or Honolulu,
and being a farmer don't write many
letters and don't know what the
proposition is as maybe he amt been F:
here for five years, you might as
well wind up the cat and put out the
clock and close the office and call +:
it a day as the crop viii be harvest /:
ed before you will get an answer /:
from the landlord.
/ suggest that the committee that /:
passes on these loans allow more (:
o for the size of the loan and !:
less for the .. X. of it, especially
later il has been guaranteed 20 per /:
cent by the local bank and 10 ner :
by us farmers and 10 per cent :
by the brethren at Salt Lake who :
reserve the privilege of having their :
man there put the final thumb :
screws on adj these here loans. You :
fellows don't seem TO realize tn 10 :
merchants has got to have real :
money for grub and things. While :
the hens is laying pretty good, eggs :
amt worth much. We notice your :
forgot to put the hens in :
the mortgage, and they are about :
the only thing around the ranch :
produces anything that you can :
sell for cash. :
Yours truly, :
r. ~ SOS