Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-10-21
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.
big Advantages for Those In search
OF Homes.

big Advantages for Those Ina Search
OF Homes.
In conveying TO the minds Of read
ers the many advantages offered in the
Great Northwest 70 ambitious. encr-
getic, industrious homeseekers. and 10
capitalists and business men OF push,
self reliance and intelligence, writer
finds vast and, one might truthfully
say, still unknown country with which
to deal; n understanding land OF
rugged, towering mountains, rolling
hills, undulating plains, nesting val
leys, wild fields, grassy ranges and
pastures, beautiful meadows, towering
gardens, fruitful orchards, giant for
ests and profitable mines; region
whose scenic beauties are kaleidos.
copic, and whose substantial resources
are as varied rs the wants and ambi-
tions OF men; as multiiarious as the
hand OF man can utilize. OF such n
country il is difficult to convey true
impression--aye, impossible; but the
following pages bear at least the inn
press OF truth, and are devoid OF the
fantastic coloring with which it is SO
easy TO adorn descriptive lines OF the
wide and changeable Northwest land.
The West.
Her strong right arm hAred from its mighty task;
Her face and threat hronred. and with health
Her form a juuo's; laughing see her 20
To do the deed for which the world must ask.
Serving mankind. and serving without mask;
Self honorel In her labor. gaining 90
The guer,ion OF all honor that may how
To powers too great In fiattery's sun TO hAsk
Proudly she points 10 what her efforts give:
To corn and wheat and product OF the mine.
To fruit and feeces and flesh and how OF wine,
And enginery. In strength imperative,
She ~ieiis the land with purpose fair, benign:
Her dead this deed. that all the world may live.
ruK WILDERNESS or yksrsRpAr.
Il was Webster who said. There Is poetry like
the poetry OF events and all tho prophecies lay he
hind the fulfllment" THIS declaration related u
the development OF the east. slow growth was Ia
Daniels day before and electricity hal JOINED
/ hands for conquest la the cause OF civilization
Great States TO he caryel out OF the western
wilderness they had been In the east Our states
| men our business Inen and our railway builder
/ knew the vest the parallel OF eastern push, o.
enterprise % population, Of right climatic anu health
conditions and OF staple products. WHY should the
| line Of settlement stop anywhere between the t~C
oeeansi IL u that the city OF Lynn, Mass, hav
| ing been granted land extending six miles westward
aud sent out exploring party TO view and inform
/ how the land lyeth, whether u may DC NJ Tor an
| other plantation or no." Inviting land was found
\ but skeptieal men from that day 20 this have con
tinued ~ extend their explorations cnntinuousl,
! westward until nov they have reached the Pacific
and they usually found land INT for another planta
ton PARTICULARLY In the northern belt OF states
Notwithstanding the western records OF the scale
beams ard the balances the right side OF the bsis
lesiscrs the people Of the east have not uncarne'
the errors OF their school day text books In regard
the habitsblene.s and possibilities OF tho vast countr
west Of the Mississippi
i yicwing the vast and yielding country As we nov
see IT, thickly trodden By the eager feet OF men.
seems q little strange 10 US 10 look hack barsly nor
than generation and md newspaper printing
ing ,taytling TACT 10 w.t. "a party Of 20 men, viii
ten wagons left ST. Louis for expedition 10 tn
Rocky mountains" The date OF this event was ma
TO- 1850 To-day long trains Wind daily nom tn
cities by the Missouri and Mississippi over the Rock
mountains 10 the suTggs 81 the Pacific by severn
routes Along the trails OF 20 year
ago be-et with many dangers, cities and towns an
farms herds Of cattle anil bands OF sheep ami tAetoi
ea and mines found and the pFisations 81 ycste
dav are but memeroriea OF the prosperity OF todA,
Fifteen years ago the grand galaxy Of states stretch
ing along ths Pacific had each within their spaciou
boundries less population than is now found In the
chief cities.
The wilderness Of yesterday Is the home to-day
q hospitabe and cultured people, with school
churches, postal express, telegraph and telophOn
railway and market facilities, and all the elements
modern life and comfort settlsnient is not dens
and there Is room for many more people and great
| development for nature has been bounttiui 10 ~
Rifta 70 the NoFthwes land, where are found
youngest Of the States