River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-22
WHY Not Organize.

There is no one thing which would
add luore to the material interests of
our village than little energy on the
part of our people used in the right
direction. We have advantages
enough here to induce population
sufficient to make River Falls thriv-
ing little town, with reputation and
a permancy which it does not now en-
joy. "What is everybody's business
is nobody's business" We ought to
have a committee appointed to look
after our interests and see to it that
our advantages, if we have any. are
shown in their proper light. 1t is
what other towns have done; notably,
Red Wing, La Crosse ana Winona.
They were at standstill. A Board of
of Trade was appointed, vested with
large powers, and the results are mar
velous. Four years ago a Board of
Trade was elected at Winona when it
seemed as if the current of the many
years of prosperous times had turned
in its course, and had left them
stranded on the beach. This is part
of last years report of the Board.
The year 1883 has been characterized by a de-
gree of prosperity and progress in the material
interests of this city that are believed to be
without precedent in its history. The increase
in the number of our manufacturing industries
the success that has attended the operations of
those previously in existence as evidenced in
the enlargement of the capital invested therein
and their growth in production; the great ae-
tivity and enhancement of values in real estate
the multiplication of dwelling houses and build
ings of every description; the completion of the
pumping works and extention of the water sup
ply; the construction ond operation of the street
railway line the near introduction Of system
Of electric ghting ana The einlatgenent q oqr
ping freight give us in a few words q summary
of the progress of a single year that is pleasant
and encouraging to look back upon.
This cheering outlook, is not a
streak of amazing good luck; but the
logical result Of organized effort.
This is what they say about it;
1t is also agreeable and ought to be encour.
aging, to remember that in all this wonderful
deyelopement, this organization of the business
men and the active work it has done have been
a prime moving power. No man who allows his
thoughts to run back four years and half, to
the period when the Board of Trade was for the
third time brought into existence, can fail to
recognize the remarkable contrast in material
activity between ghat period pad the present,
nor to concede that this Board has amply Yindi-
Gated its right to live, flourish and so forward in
its work of building up oily that shall become
the pride of its people and blessing to the
sfNoIT Northwest" The day of skepticism has
passed away. The time for the doubtful and the
hesitating to pass by on the other side wagging
their heads, has gone BY. No man who has
erotIs regard FOR the general welfare can now
Withhold his earnest and practical support from
an Organization that has accomplished SO much
In SO brief space, ana that il capable, with
that support of accomplishing results In the fu-
ture that must far exceed the achievements OF
the past
We can remain as we are, or we
may go on to better things, whichs