The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-04-01

commenced as soon aS spring opens up.
We now have free mail delivery and a
daily newspaper, as well as tli-weekly:
Another new bank, the Bannock, named
for the county, has commenced business
! since ! wrote you. The reservation has
been opened, and while gold, silver and
copper mines have not been found on top
ofthe ground, yet it is known that there
are some fine mines, but it will require
capital to open them up. We have one
of the finest electric light plants in the
United States. The electricity is brought
from American Falls to this place, dis
tance of p miles, and there is plenty of
power for all the purposes that may re-
quire it. Last year there was boom and
real estate went way up in the sky.
Wonders in the reservation that did not
materialize were looked for, but the froth
has gone down and this city is now on
the verge of substantial and permanent
boom.
l do not know OF a place in the whole
country that offers better chances for the
investment of capital. Property can be
bought and houses built for rent, that
will yield an investment of 20 per cent.
There never has been time since we ar
rived that honses were drug on the
market, and what is called "shack"
here, houses of three or four rooms, made
simply of boards, always commands
from Sl2 to SIS per month. From five to
seven years rental will give back all the
money invested.
Government land can be had within
few miles of the city for $40 an acre and
the Idaho canal will run through this
property in year or so and when it
does, the same land cannot be bought for
less than from thirty to fifty dollars an
acre. Ioa may ask the question, if this
is the case, why do not the people here
invest? They do. And there is no COM
munity in the world who back their faith
in their surroundings to greater extent
than do the people of the West. But you
must realize the extent of the proposition,
the vastness of the land that there is in
the West. Few of the Eastern people
have any conception of the large amount
of land that this part of their own coun-
try contains.
There is no man who will work and the
West does not extend an invitation to any
one who does not work, who cannot do
we'll. No matter what his trade or occu-
patton may be, there is occupation for
him in this country. j he be a farmer,
the rich soil is here which will produce
in abundance all he may desire and far
beyond his capacity in the East. Where
irrigation is used, and you cannot farm
without it, the farmer is never dependent
on rain. He does not, as they do some
times in the East, have prayers offered
for the refreshing rain to make his crop
krow, all he has to do in this land of sun
shine is to turn the water on and the
ground will give her increase, many
hundred fold. If the man is carpenter,
the trades unions have made his price
$3.50 for every day he will work. Car
penters were a scarce article here last
summer and are likely to be- this. If
blacksmith or stone mason, there is
work and IN plenty. While there is
room for all honest men and women in
the West, there is not a spot where
drone is desired.
The vastness of the West and the differ
ent occupations that are offered in this
country, make it a proposition that the
men and especially the young men of the
crowded East would do we'll TO investi-
gate. Where there are hundreds of men
for one position with you, there are places
waiting for them somewhere in this
country.
1t does seem strange to me that when
the railroads are Offering such low fares
and when travelling never was so safe and
comfortable as at the present time, that
more of the men of the East do not come
out and investigate for themselves. IL
coming to Pocatello, you can get into
car at Chicago, and remain in it until
you arrive at this place. You can re-
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chair car, without costing you one cent,
or you can take tourist sleeper at Chi
cago, and they are as comfortable as their
more elegant neigobors, the Pullman,
and sleep in your birth every night you
are on your journey, and it will only
cost you 81.
We extend cordial invitation to all
our friends to come TO Pocatello. 10 visit
Boise, the capitol of the State, where the
roses bloom and beauty is on every side.
To go little farther, where the fruit
grows in such pIofusion. To view the
land awaiting mans turning into for
tunes. To inspect the mines. TO see the
opportunities tor raising cattle and hors-
es, in fact to view the wonderful possi-
bilities that nature with her bounteous
hand has spread .or his inspection and
choice. Any information of a special ma
ture that is in my power to give l shall
be pleased to give to anyone asking for il.
We are all working. Every one, and
making good wages. All OF us are en-
joying better health than we did in the
East with the exception of my wife, who
suffers with rheumatism.
Mr. editor, we will be pleased to show
you the land in this part of the West if
you get tired of printing after you have
made your fortune-for we know from
experience that there are many fortunes
in the newspaper business in the Eastt p