The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-02-25
Westward the Star Of Empire Takes
Its Way"

1Der0 VIII PROBABLY De more ViRltOri
10 the West during the coming summer
than any previous season has ever
brought here. Among the million OF
more people from all parts Of ths world
| who will visit the Worlds Fai-, will be
Thousands " ho will make tour Of the
continent before returning home. The
| probability offhe prevalence OF cholera
in Europe will stop other thousands OF
| Americans from following the too prey
aent fashion of taking a trip abroad
to spend their Summer outing and their
dollars on the other side of the Allan
tic. The percentage of eastern people
who are familiar with the scenery and
institutions of the Old World and who
have no conception OF what exists in
that, much the larger portion of their
own country beyond the states border.
ing on the Missouri river, is very large.
The fashionable tourists have never yet
in any appreciable mum bers been turned
in tt.is direction. 1t is possible that the
coming summer may turn enough of the
classes " ho are known as society peo-
pie toward the West to make it ''the
proper thing'i TO s.dou the, to them, un-
known Great West and the Pacific
states. The fact that Jay Gould and his
family made stay in Idaho during two
successive summers in quest of health
and pleasure. will be remembered by
many who will feel that the example
set by so practical man is precedent
worth following, and that others may
find attractions here worth visit. The
influence of the travel turned west-
tire nation. The millions of dollars
kept at home instead of being spent
abroad will count for something, but
will be among the least in Importance
of the advantages which will be gained.
Tire people of the East in their vague
conce ptions of the boundless resources,
Possibilities and capabilities of the much
yaster portion of the Union which lies
west of the Mississippi, can only realize
it by travelling over the country and
learning by the object lessons set for
them. There are many men in every
New England state, who have money in
savings banks, mortgages on western
farms and stocks in western enterprises,
who still think of the Great West with
only the most vague notions of its ex-
tent and resources. Even the so-called
statesmen of the East, the politicians,
do not realize the rapidity with which
the star of empire is moving westward.
This we are sorry to believe they will
only learn when revolution, peaceful
or otherwise, compels them to recog-
that this government does not belong to
Wall street and the plutocrats, although
they may. for the time being, control.
legislation in theif interests. A better
knowledge of this country and its in
creasing population and importance,
may influence politicians to have
greater degree of respect for its de-
mands.
Among the visitors coming west for
the first time will be many practical
business men and capitalists, who will
see the possibility of developing great
and profitable enterprises. Such object
lessons as they will see, where irriga-
tion has transformed barren wastes into
agricultural lands, will not
be lost on them, and many of them will
comprehend the possibilities yet in
store for country as yet only suffici-
emily developed to demonstrate its pos
sibilites. To see, to learn and to COM
prehend these things may result in put
ing capital into great enterprises all
over the West. There are opportuni
ties enough for such investments, where
capital would be assured of large re-
turns, to employ all the idle money in
America Let capitalists realize that
Boise valley was once an uDattractive
sage-brush waste, and let them now see
its productive farms and fruitful orch
ards, let them see what has been done
at Mountain Home, Nampa AID on the
Bruneau and Payette, and what is be-
ing undertaken on the great Snake
river, and then let them consider how
many more such opportunities Idaho
offers, to say nothing of the same oppor-
tunities existing all over territory in
The arid belt, larger in area than all the
states sast ofsthe Mississippi, and one
can partially realize the Importance OF