Good Prospects in the Southwest
THE following items are taken from an interesting letter just received from Brother Nordyke, manager of the Pacific Press Branch at Kansas City:— For the week ending May 8 a company of three canvassers in Texas took orders for “The Desire of Ages,” the value of which was $560. That is certainly a good week’s work. As soon as the Keene camp-meeting closes, there will be about twenty canvassers at work in Texas. A small canvassers’ institute has just closed at Afton, I. T., in which four new canvassers have been trained to work with “Great Controversy.” There are about thirty canvassers now at work in the Oklahoma Conference, and about forty in the State of Kansas. The canvassing work, both as to number of workers and book sales, is in an increasing and satisfactory condition in Colorado. During the past few weeks the canvassers in Kansas have been taking so many orders for subscription books that the president of that conference, Elder McReynolds, beginning to feel uneasy as to whether the books could be supplied promptly from the Kansas City office, called at our office to investigate, and was thoroughly satisfied on this point. The outlook for the canvassing work both in the West and in the Southwest is quite encouraging this spring, and we look for a largely increased sale of subscription books this year. A canvasser in Colorado, working for “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,” in one week recently took orders to the value of eighty-four; and he is a beginner. Another canvasser for “Home Hand Book” in the same State took six orders as the result of seven calls.