Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-12-14
MORE PEOPLE
C|TY'S NEED
Seattle Man Tells How
Lewiston Can Take
On Wealth

Publicity work and its results was
a subject presented to a meeting Of
the Commercial club last night by
David r. McGinnis of Seattle, who was
formerly located in st. Paul.
| Mr.. McGinnis spoke in part as fol-
| lows:
probably within radius Of two
hundred miles of Lewiston and
Charleston are as many and varied
resources in timber, minerals, fruit
and agriculture as can be found in
any similar area in our republic, and
they are yet practically untouched.
Your future, your career Of develop
ment Is yet in front Of you. Nature
has done everything ror you, her
treasures are scettered with a lavish
hand about you. But resources alone
do not make a country.
1T requires an ambitious, virile and
far-sighted people to make the most
of them by aggressive and active de-
velopment of every resource which
your tributary country possesses. Wed
the two factors-rich resources and an
aggressive Development Of them-and
there is no real limit to what you can
create here at the whiting point OF
the Snake and Clearwater rivers. But
no matter how active may be your
people the very multiplicity OF your
resources calls loudly for q sufficient
population to take advantage of them.
You need people, more people. thou
sands, yes, hundreds OF thousands
more OF them to fill the fruit and
grain farms, to work mines, to start
manufacturing enterprises. You
have country OF surprising climate.
an Eden Of fruit. whore winter
pouches with light hand. Bun
these facts and advantages are not
sufficiently kn.wn throughout the
east, and In that ersat Mississippi
valley, where farmers by the million
have acquired an ample wealth from
fertile soil, but are dissatisfied with
the fierce arctic storms of winter.
These people only need to know and
be convinced of the advantages you
have here to come by the thousands
ana with millions OF dollars to be one
of and part of you, and confer up
on your cities and country growing
prosperity.
''Eow can tLey best be reached?
There is only one way, one effective
way to tap this great Mississippi val
ley reservoir of people and money
and that is by means Of the news
papers they read; the farm paper, the
weekly editions of the great city
dailies, the high class magazines
These form the only possible avenue
because they supply the only way to
reach people in very large numbers.
Since 1896 Canada has attracted to
ner bleak ana arctic plains 900, 600
Mississippi valley settlers Fiior.
one state alonc-Iowa--she took 100
million dollars and she did it by per-
sistent use of the newspapers backed
up by personal solicitation OF her
travelling agents. wh5 called upon ev-
cry inquirer of ner advertisements.
Those settlers belonged to us here
on the coast but we let the tide be
turned for lack of intelligent hustle
and effort to get them for Idaho, Ore
gon and Washington
"Cities are like persons. Some take
of their opportunities and
some get left in the race because they
are not wide awake to their chances
The race Is for population because
that represents wealth and civilization.
Given natural advantages as a foun-
dation cities forge their own careers,
and cities to grew and gain must do
80 by their own ex tions and those
that expect outside 'rapences to build
them up will be iisa npointed. Why
here you can do. you can accomplish
There need | e no real limit
TO what you nsny arpire to become
but your watchword should be more
railroads. You ne,.l the steel rails
up the Snake, up the s..,mon river
valleys to Elgin, over Craig mountain
to the grain fields and forests, ana
II some one else does not build them
go after them yourselves.
"CitieE, like inpii.iduaals. do not
know what they can do until they
make the effort. There is literally
no limit to what you may do here.
Dare! dare! the verv largest UNDER
takings and experience, the Joy Of
high achievement. it can all be yours
here al the meeting points of em oires.
Courage and persistent endeavor are
the needful qualities for you as 4 city.
Why. If you had the lines of COM
l have mentioned II you
had like Canada, gone after immigra-
ton determined to nave 1t II II took
months or years of effort you ralght
as well have had $4,000 people right
here today as the twelve or fifteen
thousand you have nuw.
Publicity. continuous. pers'stent
publicity among the teeming millions
of the eastern states viii bring TO
your cities and to your state an
abounding developments and prosperi-
fy Of which the present II but me
merest hint