The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-01-09

Hood Rlvee, Oregon, December ",
1902. = Editor Glacier Ii, instead
Of incorporating the Lewis and
Clark Fair company, the citizens
Of Portland had incorporated the Port
land and Aslatie Transportation com.
pany, or the Portland and Asiatic Bank
ing company, or trading company or
some railway company to extend into
the interior OF Oregon, and had sub
scribed $500 10000 to its stock and then
senta business man East for .addi-
tional subscriptions, then they might
have raised almost any sum OF money
up to ten million dollars. Then they
would have started an enterprise that
would remain with them, end develop
into something larger and better year
after year.
If they were to go before the legisla-
ture and cause to be passed an act APP
propriating $500, 900, not for a fair, but
for public highways, to get access to our
undeveloped lands, then we might ex-
pect many more Of the thousands who
come here to remain with us and help
develop the country.
Or, II they were to put $l00, 900 into
saw mill in Portland, another 100000
into some other industry, and the re-
naming 100000 into building parks
and cleaning their streets, they would
do much better than putting it into
clumsy fair buildings to be used for
brief three months. The fair Will not
develop Asiatic business for us. That is
done by commercial houses sending
agents there with samples Of what we
have to SELL The Chinese will not come
here to see the fair. We must take our
goods there and quote them low prices
to induce them to buy.
Ii it is immigration we want, let us
remember that the most desirable peo-
pie for US are those who want good prop
erty; and good property in town or
city should always be on graded streets
with sewers and water mains.
Good property in the country can be
no where else than on good roads. The
construction Of fair building will grade
no streets nor roads, and will lay nei-
ther sewer pipe nor water mains.
After the whole thing has come and
passed away we will find that we have
misdirected our energy, wasted our
money, and that the good citizen has
bought ticket and travelled homeward;
and that only few Of the desirable and
many of the helpless and distressed
have remained with us. We will have
paid too much for.our whistle.
We want nice people, and we want
business people to join us as citizens and
neighbors. A business man will more
readily take a hold with us if he sees
we are willing to take hold ourselves.
II it is the scheme of the state to catch
the Fastener by glittering show for
trap, we will find sooner or later that
our trap is too expensive.
1t is not necessary to have fair to
show our lumber and shingles, for that
is on exhibition in hundreds and thous-
ands OF lumber yards all over the East.
1t is not necessary to advertise our
fruit. for that we can send East and ex-
hibit in contrast with their fruit. We
are the only people who have salmon,
and that is known all over the East.
Amy other articles we can easily send
there for them to look at Ii it is eli
mate or SCENERY that We want to exhi-
bit, then let us open our roads and
streets, and lay our sewers and water
mains and make living here easy and at
tractive.
If it is manufacturing we want them to
engage in, then let us put our money
in with them. If we have money
to invest in fair, then we surely have
it to invest in factories +. z. FRIDAY.