Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-15
WESTERN ENTERPRISE.
NEBRASKA. THE TRANS-MtSSIS-
SIPPI ORANARY. FAVOR
ABLY COMPARED.
The Equal OF Birmingham, Niagara
and velsseo-Her Factories Ran with
water Power Transmitted by Rise.
tricity.

. One land company at New Blrming-
nam, Ala, invested 100000. out OF
( the sales Il has paid more than s., 900,
900 in dividends. II has also spent two
million and a half in improvements
and It's remaining assets from the ori-
ginai investment amount % S5,coO, 600
more
There were at the time the invest.
ment was made hundreds Of towns in
/ Alabama more attractive than New
birmingham. II Is pertinent 20 ask
what this place had, more than
other places, which permitted such
colossal profits2 The answer i. rich
iron ore, coal and gypsum lying liter
ally side BY side. Iron could b. made
there cheaper than any where else in
the United States,
Al the mouth Of the Brazos River ia
Texas, a town was laid out less than
two years ago, the land ON which Il
was located cost $500 an acre Ia less
than one year the towns founders sold
81 $50, 600 worth OF town lots and the
population Of Nelasco grew 20 more
than two thousand busy people. There
are hundreds Of towns ia Texas many
years older which haze not one th0ps-
and people. What made the place
grow "a rapidly? Why, al tina, point
they deepenod the harbor aud made a
pass through the sand bar 10 the mouth
Of the river, which allowed deep draft
ships 10 enter. In short, they made a
better port than there was ~ any other
place on the Gulf Coast west
* New ORLEANS. Recognizing the
advantages Tor commerce which
Velasco had thus acquired. in
ycstors from everywhere rushed there
70 secure part IL rs certain future
prosperity.
The fruit farms Immediately adja-
cent % Niagara Pals could have heea
bought two Year, ago fpr SlUO TN acre.
now they are selling o., from 81 oUu 10
100000 per acre
What has brought about The change
~ last the great falls ~ Niagara are
being harness.d Tho imp.tss. he Inns
been f1und possible Enterprise has
.urnsi the ,iream ~ the rocs into fact.
Niagara Fails, heretofore 0aiy Z pleas.
ure ground viii uDw become ro dbubt
the manufacturing center d she ~ 81
cru states.
They hnvc developed 10000 horse
power, and offer u at rust 1n,-h half
less than Il can h. made fnr with .o5d
or coal u ans point in the United
States.
When tho never great and now
rapidly disappearing forests 0f thts
country are entirely usrd III, and che
no where ample coal Hclds ayr wholly
exhausted, the mighty falling weight
of Niagara River water Nill &. making
power just as cbcuply as Il duss to-day.
Each II these three places made
great fortunes for the Brst investors.
because each POI s.ssed great com
mcrcial advantage
There j. another place bow ast a..
Suming the same conditions The rich
agricultural State 81 Nebraska, hns NO
coal mines and Is entirely without
forests ON account 81 this manufac.
turing has been simply ont 81 the qucs.
ton. II has heeu accepted a. ALSO.
lutely unavoidable that its products
would always have 20 20 ont ~ the
State 10 be- manufactured. But sud.
denly great water.powcr, has been de.
vclopcd. Tho wonderful Platte River.
which Mark Twain described. with
almost as much truth rs humor. 10 he
stream one thousand miles long.
one mile wide and one inch deep, has,
at one point, been given great aud a
new use.
~ GothcnburR ESQ miles west ~
Omaha, in the heart Of the pranary 81
the Trans Mississippi. water.povcr
has been developed which engineers
shy can bc increased 10 100. 00O horse.
power. The experiment has been
made The fact has been accom-.
plished.
IN that new town factories arc being
run with water power transmitted ~
electricity. Houses are heated and
lighted by electricity made Is water
power.
The Gothenburg Commercial Club
offers TO give free information upon an.
piication, and the cnterprising capital.
lists who own the canal aud power
plant offer free power and locations
and liberal business treatment 10 other
mills and factories.
u seems certain that what iron orc
was to New Birmingham. deep water
was TO Vclasco and water.power to
niagara Falls, the newly acquired
water-powcr win be 10 Gothenburg.
CHAs. h. WuRrltAM
a Modern Tourney.