Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-06-23
LEWISTON AND SURROUNDINGS

iston, and clearly observed its progress
a. we'll as the impediments thereto, we
may be credited with having some
knowledge Of the place and its sur
roundings. We too have been some
what familiar with the natural loca.
ton and surroundings Of other points
in this eastern country about which so
much has been written that is com.
mandatory, and we do not say but de-
servedly 80. We have recently been
through several sections. Of the coun-
try. which we before had travelled
when they we're almost destitute of in.
'habitants and without any Of the en-
bellishnents and improvements which
An industrious people soon give to a
country, and which we then could fore
see must become important fields of &C
tive life and industry. Nature having
made them such, and have seen the
rapid strides which newly settled en-.
igrants, many Of them poor, have made
towards thrifty homes and abodes of
plenty and wealth, by means of the
fertility of the soil and the geniality Of
the climate and other natural advant
ages, and have found our former
prophecy rapidly being fulfilled in re-
lation to these localities. We studied
these new theaters Of life and the ef-
forts which had been made to bring
them into notice, and the wonderful
salutary effect Of these efforts, and then
oontrasted them with the supineness
that had existed in relation to our i'm
mediate section about Lewiston, and
why1 because men knowing Lewiston
and ito surroundings thought they
needed no efforts to make their beau
tics and advantages known to the pub
!lic abroad. OF course Lewiston has
never had any foreign capital to con-
struct railroad to its borders, while
the construction Of the Northern Pa.
.i6o has caused hundreds and thous-
ands to hasten and make settlement on
al available places along in the imme.
date vicinity of its line. BY these
means our section has had compare
lively slow growth, and some of us to-
day predict in doleful strains that Lew
,iston and its environs will DO left out
in the GOLD. Bat our real prosperity
and rapid growth may yet slumber for
a while, yet her future, and not far off
future, either, will demonstrate to the
world that Lewiston and her surround
ings have the best climate, the best
soil and the best natural advantages to
build up thriving and prosperous
people of all the localities between the
cascades and tho Bitter Root noun
tains. The entire belt Of land North
of the 46th parallel and South of the
4e.h, and bet ween the 18th and | 18th
mertdians of longitude, contains the
cream of all the country between the
Cascades and the Bitter Root noun
tains for building up homes of wealth,
.healbh and happiness, and with its ra,
'dius of 80 miles North, West and
South, and 60 miles East, Lewiston
has the cream Of the cream of all, and
tho future prosperous destiny of this
secciou is as firmly fixed as are the fix.
Cd stars of the heavens, and our day of
waiting will not be long. Let money
and untiring zeal and energy BE- dis
played in developing all there is in ma
turs, outside Of this a similar ovation
Of money and energy will soon reach
us and soon demonatrate that we can
outstrip them all, because nature has
90 moulded, fashioned and provided for
our locality that money and art will
surely come to our assistance. All that
10 new wanting is for our resident pop.
ulation to have faith in themselves of
tho section they inhabit, and to make
that faith known abr DAD, and invite
capital and labor to come here, and
treat both we'll when they arrive Lot
no dog in tho manger" policy be found
among US Be satisfied that we can
hold our own with all honorable CON-
petition from any source, or if not that
~s will cheerfully acqueissce in becom
ing vanquished. Should a person de.
sire to locate in business among us, and
70 purchase piece Of land suitable,
80 that no becomes not Immediately
frightened at the exorbitant price
4 Manifest a zeal and progressive spirit
Il. All nublic imnroyements for n dol.