Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-12-09
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER.
A Mammoth Street Railway Proposh
tion-.ictivity In the Local Apple and
Pecan Trades.

tion-.tctivity In the Local Apple and
Pecan Trades. r
ST. Louis, Nov. 24.--If bill now
pending before the municipal assem-.
bly, is passed st. Louis will have the
cheapest system of railroad fares in
the country. The bill is pushed by
the projectors Of Il new road which is
intended to connect all the other lines
in the city, giving the passenger trans
fer tickets from the one to the other
If the franchise is obtained the road
will be built in time to carry the pco-
pie who flock into the city for the fall
festivities next year A passenger
then who starts from Carondelet, the
extreme southern end of the city, will
boundary, and there transfer to other
lines that will take him to the west
ern limits, getting n trip of over
twenty-five miles for 5 cents. The
scheme is simple enough, but if it is
carried out it will provide the city
with a gigantic plan of passenger
transportation, that is unapproached
in any other of our large cities.
1t has been found by several years
experience that the attempt to edu-
cate the Chinese here through instruc-
ton in Sunday schools is unsatisfac-
tory. Neither the churches nor the
pupils are content with the results.
Another plan for the benefit of the
Chinese is to be put into operation this
winter by benevolent people of means
who take an interest in making good
of this class of immigrants
Several night schools are to be estab-
lished, at least three, in the part of the
city in which most of them live, some
where in the down town blocks of
and Walnut streets. The in
will not be entirely free; it
has been decided that it will be wiser
to make the Chinese student under
stand that he must pay for his books,
anyway. The salaries of the teachers,
all of whom are to be men and women
and who have formerly taught the
Chinese in Sunday schools, will be
of missionary societies will con-
tribute.
Money is more plentiful, and com
mands lower rates of interest in St
Louis and Philadelphia than in any
other cities of the United States. Much
of the idle capital here has been put
into trust companies lately, but from
the organization of two rather original
enterprises the other day it seems that
there are enough moneyed men to
make experiments with their capital
if their appears to be legitimate pros
pect of fair profit in the schemes pro-
posed. One of these new companies
has bought an island in the Mississippi
river, about forty miles from st. Louis,
and has planted it with 500 pecan
trees. The men at the head of the
company are confident that they will
make q lot of money as soon as the
trees begin to bear. They claim
that they have on their island about
the same climate that there Is in those
parts of Texas where the best pecan
nuts grow.
The other company was organized to
buy apple orchards in Illinois and Mis-
souri, and plant more trees than their
present owners are able to manage.
The owners OF the orchards have in
most cases gone into the companies,
and when they were unwilling to dc
this the companies have bought their
farms outright. This scheme was sug-
gested to the St Louis investors by
the condition of the apple crop of the
United States for the past three years,
during which time the east has had tic
look to Illinois and Missouri for the
bulk of its apples. The operations of
this company will make St Louis the
largest apple market in the country in
few years. 1t is very near that now
New York being the only city which
handles more of the fruit.