The Opelousas courier., 1888-06-02
Results Of Aiding Local Papers.

hcient foundation for the enor-
nous value of property in those
places. Real estate, it is said, is
worth as much in Birmingham as
it is in New York, and that while
it is reasonable to expect property
in the former city to be at some
future time on a parity with that
in such cities as Pittsburg, it is
visionary to think that it can re-
main equal in value to property
in the great metropolis of the
country.
Without going into estimates as
to how much this or that boom
has been inflated, it is evident
that these favored places have &C
CURED population and capital.
manent prosperity values will, OF
course, collapse. But where there
are resources in minerals or trade,
these cities can never go back to
the insignificant positions they
once occupied as flag stations or
country villages, and their pros
perity will be enduring.
How these booms were started
is an important question, and one
not very difficult to answer.
Printers ink set the ball in motion,
and kept it rolling.
Every live newspaper is willing
to do much more than its full
share in any work for the benefit
of the community on which it is
dependent, but without the active
aid and cooperation of the people
for whom it labors a newspaper
could not succeed in starting a
boom.
The people out West, who have
considerable experience in the
matter, show an intelligent and
creditable liberalty in assisting the
press, the prime factor in building
up a country as we'll as in bring
ing trade to a business house.
Here are a few instances of what
some of the small towns are doing:
The people of Tucson, Arizona,
by a public subscription buy 5000
copies of their local paper every
month for. the purpose of sending
it abroad, and in addition pay
$500 per month for the expense
attendant upon writing up the at
fractions and advantages of the
people. Lamar, Colorado. pays
$4,000 for a pamphlet and $1,000
to the local press. The Monitor;
of Fort Scott, Kansas, rGreives
$1,000 for booming that Gown.
Hutchinson, Kansas, contributes
$4,000 to the expenses of run,
ming morning paper, and Newton
gives the Republican $4,000 tc
boom ahead. -,
Wichita, Kansas, the best boom
ed town the in West, and now q
great and growing city, was built
up by a liberal support of its loca
papers. AS the Silver City Enter
brlse said: Boom" is hardly the
name for such enterprise. 1t i:
simply doing for a town and coun
try in one year what in the natur,
al course of events would require
twenty years. Said the same
paper:
Less than one year ago tn
citizens of San Jose, Cal, tn
! most beautiful little acity in thu
State, commenced to buy thei
local papers blythe thousands t
send East. Later the city vote'
/ a1arge sum of money to be use
/ in advertising, and for weeks pas
the average daily sales of proper
ty in and around San JOS
amounted to s. 100000.
5 Any town with a good Location
I we'll situated, can induce immi
grafton, and general prosperity
sure to follow. We can not es
pect to sit down idle and pro:
per. People will not come t
= New Mexico or Grant county VIII
never heard anything favorable I
the country.
Grand county is destined e1
many years to become the gran
:. sanitarium of the continent, b
= people will continue to go t
= Florida or California unless the
a attention is attracted to the won'
- erful healthfulness of this sectlo
. and it's many advantages over ar
> other portion of North Americ
q We are glad that all the towns
the Territory are awakening
n the importance of advertising the
= various sections and we are CO.
fdent that Silver City will not
j, behind he. neighbors eventual
7 Such facts should convey
Q important lesson to the people
u New Orleans for tae good resul
) that followed the support or Il
; local press in the West may
l. attained here by similar method