The teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1876-1878, 1876-11-04


ara ready to speak loudly in It's favor,
aud admit that it is capable Of support.
Ing dense population, that it needs
only settlement, development. and cult
walton to make it one of the most desir.
able abpdes Of enlightened society. 70
be found 10 all Uncle Sans domain.
Its soil is excellent. It's climate is re.
markedly healthy aud delightful. It
responds to the labor Of the husband.
man in far greater ratio Of product
than any Of tho states cas-. Of the Rocky
Mountains. The tests made by the few
who have been here during the few
years past have fally confirmed what
We have claimed for this country. ;.
Bnt knowledge Of these facts is cir.
cuinscribed within the narrow limits
We inhabit. The people Of other states
and territories have but little or no
knowledge Of US and our natural advau.
'ages and resources, and they are not
liable to ever know unless we adopt
some means to inform them. That many
people in the older states east would
come to US, had they knowledge Of
our resources, no IMAM can doubt, who
Knows the dissatisfaction they express
with the condition Of things where they
now live. They say their lands are
lessening IN value every year. In
many instances they can produce not
more than one-half their former annual
crop, their taxes are high and each and
every year they 6od themselves in ar
rears and they long for a change.
They conceive from what little they
do. know, that somewhere on the Pacific
slope is a better country. But pre-.
cisely where they know not. Califor-
MIA has disseminated some intelligence
among the people of the East in regard
to her resources. Oregon has made
some effort in that direction. A little
has been written and published abroad !
about the Sound portion Of Washington |
Territory. But to y great extent the
people east are totally ignorant Of the
resources Of North Idaho and Eastern
Washington. A little is being now
learned Of the latter through letters
sent east BY parties residing in aud
about Walla Walla, to their &rmer
neighbors and friends, aud through the
Walla Walla newspapers which are sent
abroad. The effect Of these letters and
their publications is being perceptibly
felt in the Walla Walla valley and its
immediate surroundings by an encoura.
ging Immigration from many Of the
older states, who are fast filing up that
section with thrifty and enterprising
population.
North idaho which is by no man ner
Of means, inferior either in soil or eli.
mate to the best portions Of Eastern
as yet has no Influx Of
population save few who originally
to settle 10 Eastern Washing.
Ton, CHANGED to stray beyond the line ,
INTO our section, and finding it so good
nave pitched their tents With US. No !.
systematic or special effort has ever been
made to induce immigrants to our Dor. .
lers. We presume that not twenty dol. .
airs has ever been expended directly
owards sending abroad intelligence re. .
'pectiDg our resources a. an agricultural
country. Would it not be good ia.
;estment to expend few dollars for
his purposey Will il not be like seed
own in good ground that will b. sure
Q spring up and bear ftuit3 Perhaps
omc will say that the harvest will be !
90 far removed from the seed timc,