Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-03-03
SAW LOTS OF COUNTRY;
LIKES PULLMAN BEST
~ Parr and c. j. Redeem Return
from Extensive Trip Through
Canada and Middle West

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wost but according to the two gem
.,onan they found nothing that
,ronld compare with the Palouse
oountry. The trip took them through
northern British Columbia, Alberta,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Minnesota,
iowa Illinois, Indiana, Missouri
KANSAS. Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
southern Idaho, Oregon and back to
tho good old state of Washington.
In discussing the trip Mr.. Parr
said;
eve left Pullman January s and
found almost the same temperature
in weather ali the way to southern
Missouri. However, after we went
through Canada and some of the
northern states the weather reached
very low temperature. In south
arn Alberta they have had three al
most complete crop failures and the
farmers as a rule are in very bad
circumstances. The town of Medi-
zine Hat has decreased in population
from 1900 to $50. In Saskatchewan
they have had fair crops but it is a
disagreeable place to live, the win
ters being so cold and the mOsqui-
toes make it very interesting for the
inhabitants during the summer. A
nj cly of n ba1 n
told me that last July he dug a well
and got down eight feet and struck
frost. He said that his wheat was
over two feet tall at that time. They
lay their water pipes 3 feet deep
and some seasons the frost does not
get out below till it starts freezing
again from above. Manitoba has
been a good farming country but
the weeds are reducing the crop
yield to great extent
II was amused in Winnipeg to see
the grocery delivery wagons in town
They work one horse to each wagon
and they have a stove in each wagon
to keep the articles from freezing.
I'm the corn belt Of the Mississippi
valley during the war corn got up in
price as high as $240 a bushel and
land values raised to $500 or 5000
an acre. When we were there corn
was selling at 80 cents a bushel and
land values had decreased about so
per cent with very few sales but lots
of foreclosures. | could notice very
little improvement in the towns of
the Mississippi in the 81 years since
I had been there and the same is
true of the country districts. I saw
towns there with 1000 and upwards
inhabitants which had no sewer or
water systems.
Houses in the middle states seem
of be built for homes and not to rent
as they will not rent for enough to
pay interest on the investment. Our
taxes are high in Washington but
when we consider the rapid advance
ment that we are making over the
towns of the middle west it helps
us to shoulder willingly our burden
OF taxation. In Missouri they sure
take life easy and nothing seems to
worry them. They don't have the
money to spend that we do but they
are sure a sociable and accommodate
ing lot of people and set in their
ways.
I met a school teacher there, an
Old schoolmate of mine, who told me
mat we could raise nice looking
gram, fruit and vegetables in Wash
lhgton but that the fruit does not
nave the flavor that Missouri fruit
mas, that the vegetables are not good
and the chickens are not good eat
ing and that even the eggs that the
mems lay are not as good as the eggs
lad by Missouri hens. We argued
over this for while and finally
toia her that the only satisfactory
way that I could settle the dispute
was Tor her to eat Missouri hen eggs
anu would eat Washington hen
esgs and we would both be satisfied
Common labor can be had in
some places as low as $1.0O a day
anu living expenses seem to be as
aiucn as here. Flour is higher than
aefe' Potatoes retail at $1.6O per
oushel' Washington apples at $500
S4'oO per box. Washington shin
sss' Extra Star-A-Star, are retailing
" 1915 to $3.50 thousand and the
70 clear at $495 to $3.50. Wash
aston dimension lumber No. 1 com
Vn al $31 and upwards, cement
~fo net, lime 1925 a barrel, plas-
' sl6'25 ton, lath No. l white
"e @.S5. brick $40 a thousand.
eOe the above prices at Lamar, Mo.
The douth this winter has great
a.. .euuced the prospects of a good
Twp OF fall wheat In Kan,oe