The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1905-09-16
SUPREMACY OF THE PACIFIC
ITS UEDEvELOPED RESOURCES
Cities and Manufacturing hnhastRiea--A
Rive % PopuIatiom and Hndmstry--
Cheap Raw Materials and Trnined I'm
tmiiigenee.

To explain the phenomenal growth
Of the whole PacicH Coast during the
last decade, the changed conditions,
which have followed the Spanish
American war and have marked the
Russo Japanese one, are usually cit-
cd rs sufficient grounds. Bat this
ii BY no means the case. Certainly,
those two events have had a strong
stimulating effect upon the Pacific
Coast, though, 1t has temporarily re-
suited in decrease of trade with the
countries forming the war zone. This,
however. is only ephemeral effect,
for during 1905 the deficiency was
more than made mp BY immense or
ders, notably from Japan. And Il.
Is a foregone conclusion that go far a.
this contTy'B material interests are
concerned the principal result Of the
gigantic struggle between Russia and
Japan will be enormously enhanced
/ trading facilities with far Asia.
But these t~o political events, mo-
mentous as they unqusstionably
are, do not altogether explain q
change as sweeping as occurred in the
same region after the discovery Of
gold half century ago.
Look at some Of these changes.
Ten years ago the population Of
SanFrancisco was about 500, 600; to-
day il lie very near the 500, 600 mark.
The population Of Portland, seat Of
the Lewis and Clark Exposition, held
to commemorate the initial explora-
tion voyage to the whole ''oregOn
Country" century ago, has grown
from so, 600 decade ago 10 las,
1000.
| Whoever has eyes to see and ears
to hear can not Al this day make an
extensive tour Of the three Pacific
States without having IL brought
home to him with elemental force
that the soil is prepared, the codi-
tioas are ripe, the opportunities ara
awaiting the harvester, and that thia
wonderful region stands at the very
threshold Of an industrial develop
ment which. in sevreal respects. will
shame the older and supremely self
satisfied East.
What are the ESSENTIAL requisites
for successful manufacturing They
are three; enterprise and trained in
ielligepcs Of population; cheap raw
stutfs, foel and motive power; varied
aud low priced means of tFansPorta,
tion.
All these essentials are nov assem-
bled; the industrial equipment Of tn
Pacific Coast is iaVless.
There are all along the PaciEic
Coast besuitful, pushing, resistles
centeFs Of civilization growing up be
fore our very eyes, equipped will
everything, material and spiritual,
which the Twentieth century car
boast Of. The air is humming will
bee-like activity; the pulse peat i
! strong and quick. Another genera
B ton SAP thirty short years. and th'
q Pacific Coast will be lined from nortl
e TO south With a score of mighty. veal
. thy, imperial cities; some Of then
= will have reached the million limit
/ others will be on their way to IT,
Only total ignorance or willtu
blindness can fail 10 read the signs
e As the eighteenth and the first half 0
4 the nineteenth centuries saw the rap
a id growth OF the Atlantic border, an,
4 as the second half Of the nineteenth
: century witnessed the evolution {
: life and greatness Of the Middle West
q so the twentieth century will have n
a one OF lite chief theaters Of cation th
Pacicti Coast. The feats 81 the fore
i fathers wilt be eclipsed here. tn
h supremacy Of the Pacific Coast viii
become an established fact. Ia
a Volt Won Schierbraud in PaciR
h Monthly for September.