Show correspondence P salt lake city nov 28 dear editor rs A L after a f fe enn C months negligence 1 I was glad tr tc got get a copy of the progress re yiew view am still a Mil at al heart and the more I 1 see of theil countries the brighter millard 1 grows in in my estimation the writer had the pleasure of visit ing california with the express purpose of investigating home h conditions while it is ideal to see flowers in bloom in feb yet y v there is a misty murky atmos phere p here that makes me feel lone some soine not alone in the cities f where there is so much smoke bu but t i in n the country i it b i is s foggy and y chilly when it raining then if you wanted an all orange grove r you must be prepared to pay I 1 from 1500 to 2000 dollars an all aar to get in the orange belt or the frost would take the fruit true tru you could get cheap iland but on oil inquiry you would find it to lay ill a sandstorm sand storm district or where 11 wd r A we tiie river river would overflow in the au then again 0 ones nes i experience 0 summer in hi idaho makes us know that it is apt all suns sunshine liffie and a flowers but people 11 have etive to labor contino in order to make ends meet and any one who thinks that gods country 5 is just over the hill will get left millard lias has every opportunity for foi a young man the west side luts has always alway been called tit the lazy mans country and from out side appearance it is verily true but the saying had reference to the e easy way a nitin man could make a living and its true a man with a small alfalfa farm need not lot worry about liis his bread and butter but the time has como come when people will want more and if lie lias has as fine a house as his neighbor 11 ba lie he will have to rustle little more rustle wont hurt millard I 1 speak of the western part for the eastern has always been a little more ambitious towards home comforts and it wont hurt az them to clean up yards and plant grass gras s and flowers if they expect to look as well as their neighbors 01 its an all old saying but true there is no excellence excelled le without labor and I 1 find that the city people have to work for th eliat it excellence and its every day the same now the farmer has no excuse while lie labors liard hard to get his crops started then while it is growing what a garden of eden lie he could mako make and ft a home biome in ill the country V wo would uld thus be more desirable millard showed up quite well at the last state fair and to ome oine out with a number of prizes vas fine it might surprise some 0 know that most of the s of products canie came from that down trodden 0 oasis asis I 1 speak hat wa way y from the alie f fact act that we ased to live there and as it a esponde nt got slapped very hard by kanosh and held up to ridicule cule because as they put it sonie some of the once nourishing flourishing farms barnis had gone to stilt salt grass grasp and alkali true a few es did I 1 will have to add for blie benefit hen hit of those who yet have a bad opinion of oasis that the v ery cry farmer alluded to received for his seed this fall over oooo dollars and nearly every farmer t armer in that district received it a lump of gold to put down ii in his stocking Z and from what we ve have seen here in a few months I 1 makes us feel that a farmin the country is more profitable than a business in the city |