Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1902-01-24
FIVE YEARS HENCE.


The Republican localizcr was quite
amused, though deeply interested In a
Joint debate between two gentlemen
1T the dinner table at the Pend d.
Dreille recently. One OF them repre-
scented an eastern manufacturing con-
cern of saw mill machinery and his OPP
ponent was identified with an eastern
firm OF Spectators in western timber
lands. The timber man insisted that
standpoint would have resident pop
ulation OF 5000 or more within the
next five years, while the man who
sells machinery placed the limit at
1900. They wound up their argu-
inent by agreeing to disagree and
wait for time to settle the dispute.
The encouraging feature OF this dis
pute, to Sandpointcrs at least, is the
estimate Of our towns population,
@hich, viewed from either standpoint,
would rank Standpoint as city OF no
mean proportions. 1t is d0ubly en-
couraging because both estimates
were furnised by disinterestcd parties,
who base their calculations upon COM
PARSONS drawn between conditions as
they exist here and other localities
equally as favored which they are per-
:eetly familiar with.
While we do not desire to throw'tnO
many bOquets at our home tOwn-not
dceming it at all necesSary-every-
thing goes to justify and strengthen
the belief that Standpoint is destined
to become good sized city within the
coming five years. We do not care to
20 on record as saying that Standpoint
can boast of 5000 inhabitants at the
beginning of 1907, for the simple rea-
son that inside CT u months we might
hedge, and wish to place the limit at
double those figures.
Considering our favorable location,
considering the natural resources ma
ture has bestowed upon US, there prac-
tically can be no limit placed upon the
growth OF our town, provided, OF
course, the people who comprise 1t
cvince the proper spirit Of push and
enterprise, and leave no stone un-
turned to fully and freely develop, or
help to do SO, the resources of this
most favored locality. Push and en-
icrprise have erected llourishing
towns and cites and built up prospe-
rous communities amid hills Of sand
and sage brush. but it is equally
true that towns which were blessed
with an abundance OF natural resour.
ces have faded and passed away, be-
cause enterprise, push and public
spiritedness were foreign to its inhab
itantS.
Standpoint has doubled In popula
ton during the last Il months, and II
hat be taken as u eriterion--and WE
know Of none better-we Shall have
at least doubled our present popula
tion by 1903. Admitting that IT il
possible, likewise probable, that Sand
doint will have attained population
of from 5000 to 5000 BY 1907, in orde
10 reach either Of those rounds In tn,
numerical ladder 1t is absolutely ne
cessary for one and all to put thei
shoulders to the car OF progress anc
heip shove it along. There must bt
no tagging, but just keep ON pushin
an' shown all the while. The pres
cnt outlook is exceptionally hrigh
and encouraging, but the future look
brighter. To the cxertions of our cit
ilcns and representative business
men will be due whatever higher posi-
ton Standpoint may occupy than u
his time, as IA center OF population
either one or five years hence.
i.at us then bc up and doing;
Get u move on-do not walt.
Fool that guy who said three thousands
We can do II. sure as fate.