April 5, 1911 - Lowndes County, Georgia

Mr. Smith told of personally buying 50 acres of land last fall at $100/acre, all available for cultivation, no buildings. He rents it to adjoining owners for $10 cash per acre. This shows faith of residents in value of their lands. Very heavy showers came on while we were at Kinderlon. Putting up the tops and sides we escaped a wetting. As we were preparing to do this and Mr. Lamb and I were getting the covers out from under the seat, the following car bumped into us; fortunately its momentum was checked so that only the glass in a lamp was smashed.

April 15, 1911 - Muskogee, Oklahoma

I believe in a country of boomers like this in being ultra conservative. Improvements generally are small or none at all and there is a lack of settled prosperous farmers which Mr. Clapp (loan agent) admits and thinks improvement will not come 'til the allotters are weeded out.

May 24, 1915 - Garfield County, Oklahoma

The creek country appears to be a promising loan field. At present, the farmers are not of the best class and the latter will not come until schools and roads have been provided. The conditions of life at present are like what we read of in Illinois or Indiana 60 to 75 years ago but development will come with leaps and bounds.

November 17, 1912 - Sierra County, New Mexico

November 17, 1912 - Sierra County, New Mexico Cross Rio Grande and soon leave river for 75 miles avoiding box canyon. The Elephant Butte Dam will back the water to San Marcial. Query: What will prevent the deposit of silt from filling up the basin? Long interval of space: occasional bunches of cattle and wells for watering them. Engle Station, two stores and a few other scattered buildings on bare plain. After a long stretch of this plain, run into a wild jumble of washed and gashed miniature canyons, like the badlands. At Rincon, returned to the Rio Grande.

October 25, 1915 - Saline Country, Illinois

Near Francis saw part of the "Rector bottoms", said to be very fine. Poorer looking land and conditions are soon apparent on running out of Saline into Hamilton County. The Crebs brothers are good steady, reliable young fellows.