Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-05-23
HOW TO BUILD TWIN CITIES
Practical Advice From a Portland Cores.
p0ndent.
PORTLAND, Or, Nav Is, 1000.

EDITOR TEiLER: Taking, as | do,
deep interest in the development of Lew
iston, which as far back as I874-before
Spokane was a village-then seemed to
me destined TO become eventually the
next city of importance to Portland,
permit ME few remarks.
While ! freely admit nature has done
much for Lewiston i'll creating its loca-
ton as the site for commerce between
the sea and the interior of Northern
Idaho, Eastern Oregon and Eastern
Washington, yet l fear that your Lewis
ton people lack the essential for its de-
velopment, namely, cooperation. without
which Spokane will be its successful COM
petitor. A city, unlike modern trust or
syndicate, is not able to combine and
corral the trade of certain districts by
sitting still and saying, Commerce and
manufactures MUST be located here, be-
cause we have natures location and the
best climate" On the contrary a city is
cooperative partnership institution
which can say to strangers in sister States,
Come here and we will guide and direct
you, and show advantages whereby you
can make homes among us, where EN-
ployment and permanent prosperity will
follow your labor and capital invested"
Can Lewiston and Charleston truthfully
say this' We hope they can. Neverthe-
less, your people seem to me to lack three
things: I. Organization and cooperation.
You do not try to inaugurate factories
or to aid in establishing new develop.
ment concerns. 8. You have no indus
trial concerns except fruitgrowing.
In order to show how you may remedy
these, your defects, will you permit me
to give your people little bit of expert
ence in developing cities, equally well
located. During the five years of 1874
to 1879, inclusive, in which l acted as
president of the first State Board of I'm
migration at Portland, Or, composed o
Hon. II. w. Corbett, w. S. Ladd, B
Goldsmith, A. Leinenweber and myself,
we ucceeded-without any transconti
mental railroad connection and by steam
navigation with San Francisco only wher
Oregon had much less population thar
Idaho has today--in increasing the pop
ulation of Oregon &c to 70 per cent
Howl Through the cooperation of Port
| lands citizens ALoNE-then only l 2 ,oo'
persons; course your people must fol
Lowry the dissemination abroad in sis
ter States of that city's natural advant
ages for. railways and river navigation
and commerce, and also at the very loy
price at which Portland's city and subur
ban lands were then obtainable, and b,
encouraging, as we did, small manufac
turing concerns around the city. Wha
followed? Portland's gradual growth
and competing transcontinental railway
and interior railways, and permanen
Improvement of and new steamers bull
upon and for her lower and upper rivers
as your people must do some day on tn
upper Snake and Clearwater. | therefor
venture to believe that three things ar
absolutely essential for the development
and the future prosperity of Lewiston
Charleston and suburbs:
First-A separate, independent cooper
tive board which must be sanctioned b
aw las we were altho' sustained ex graft
by contributions of your citizens, wit
free rooms near the depot. Standing an
advisory committee. of disinterested cit
zens to meet home seekers and inyii
them to their rooms TO spend one or tw
hours daily ex gratia i'll guiding and d
recting them personally where to sett
: in the state, according to their variot
wants, capabilities and means AT Il
same time issuing information and loo
facts relating to Northern Idaho aloi
and the lands tributary to Lewiston a
I over the United States, verified under II
1 boards signature. The latter consid
: essential to do any good.
Second-For your people to start no.
on the cooperative plan, small wool'
> mill or boot and shoe factory, either
\ Lewiston or Charleston, either of whit
/ industries will pay handsomely, and
= more-will advertise your two cities
4 nothing else can do. This deem We
y necessary as a starter to get other fact
ries Is follow by new corners and cree
y Lewiston distributing and manufact'
ing center.
4 This-To offer all suburban lands
3 both sides of the river for sale and adj
q $3.50. Of cucll tnnlerale nriCeS per &C