Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-04-28
Central West In Bad Condi
tion as to Crops
LOOKS LIKE WHEAT
CROP rs A FAILURE
People You Meet in Travelling Over
a Great Transcontinental Rail-
way System-Liquor Plays
Part in Transactions

The present day traveller who
boards Union Pacific train at Kan
sas City and heads for the great
Northwest, will in the course of his
tno come in contact with men rep
resenting almost every line of busi-
ness. Such was the experience OF
the writer last week in his trip to
Mountain Home.
First a word as ito crop conditions
throughout the Middle West: The
Mississippi river states seem to be in
a normal condition, but as one trav-
els farther west he is confronted by
evidences of an almost total failure
Of wheat and forage crops.
Western Kansas and Nebraska and
eastern Colorado present an appear
anee which is best described as de-
plorable. AS far as the eye can reach
the fields present the appearance of
having suffered not only from lack
of moisture but from late and back
ward spring. This is combination
which it is impossible to overcome,
and it would appear that the country
as a whole will have to do without
the products of this great food pro-
ducing center for year.
Conditions as whole in the state
of Idaho are much better. There
seems to be at least a normal amount
Cf water for irrigation purposes, and
we are led to believe that this sea-
son will prove to be one of the most
prosperous the state has ever en-
joyed.
All the statesmen and representa-
tives the writer met are very opti-
mistic in regard to business condi-
tions over the country as a whole.
The automobile men were especially
cheerful over the prospects, and they
look forward to the banner year in
the automotive industry.
The people you meet in travelling
are always interesting. There was
the Teutonic gentleman who boarded
the train at Denver. He had evil
IDENTIFY partaken freely of the banned
beverage, having a breath similar to
a hot mince pie. He ensconsed him
self comfortably on the observation
platform where he could view the
passing scenery, then promptly
off to sleep and slumbered
to the accompaniment of the sooth-
ing click of the rails.
No trip would be complete without
the presence of the young man who
has a large interest in promising
business and whose presence in Seat
tie is imperative if a large business
deal is to be consummated.
Then there is the representative
Of large wholesale jewelry house.
He it was who informed the writer ,
that the business men of the large
,ities now refuse to do business until :
heir thinking apparatus has been =
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'act that he had had these men call +
It his room in the hotel as early as n
a. m, their first query being,
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'our hip?" In former years these n
anne men would never Timber up" c
Turing business hours. The Scotch +
lsed in these transactions cost the
alesman SIG a quart, by the way. D
There was also the little mother v
Who had been visiting her family in
'exas, and was on her way to her a
Iome in Boise, accompanied by a d
inc months Old son, born during "
er Texas sojourn. The baby's faith
r had not yet viewed his son and a.
cir. Eight to five that daddy was al
n the front rank of welcoming
riends when the train pulled into 5
,oise last Tuesday. v
The writer was more than ever fl
impressed with the fine railway sys- e;
am now operated by the Union Pa
ific. Their service is excellent and W
heir trains as rule make time even
nder adverse weather conditions.
Taken altogether, our trip and H
vo months visit in southeastern OIL