Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-08-31
IT IS TIME TO ACT
Montpelier Should Endeavor to do
a Little Boosting.
HELP ENTERPRISES ALONG
Show That We are Willing to Hold
That Which. We Have and to Get
All Good Things We Can.


Opportunity, they say knocks but
once at communlty's door, and we
believe that opportunity today is
knocking at Montpelier's door. The
question il, shall we throw open the
door and welcome the enterprises
that will be Of material and lasting
help to the town or shall we turn a
deaf ear to them.
One of the enterprises will come
anyway, but we should show that
we are interested in Its coming and
do what we can to boostsit along.
The enterprise in question is the
construction of the electric road be-
tween here and ST. Charles, mention
of which was made in our last issue.
G. r. Slusser, who is promoting
this enterprise, returned Monday
morning from Salt Lake, and in
talking with an Examiner represent
atlve, he expressed himself as being
confident that the road would be
completed within a year. While in
} Salt Lake last week he met with
sufficient encouragement from the
Short Line officials and capitalists
with whom he talked, to warrant
the running of the preliminary sur
yey at once, and Mr. Sluss.r said
that surveyors wonld probably be
in tn field next week. 1t is the /. :
tention, as stated in the article last
week, to construct the road in as
near straight line as possible from
here to Paris and from there to St.
Charles. The distance will be about
l6 miles and the road, Mr. Slusser
figures, can be built for $40, 900 a
mile.
The construction of this read,
with freight barge on the lake,
would result in divtrting greal
amount of passenger and freight
traffic to Montpelier that now goes
to Evanston. IL is true, that for
three months in the year barge
could not be operated on the lake,
but in the nine months all the pro-
ducts of the country about Garden
City. Laketown and Meadowville
could be shipped here by lake and
electric line, and the passenger
travel to Montpelier would also be
greatly increased. BY the construc-
tion of the electric road aud the
placing of passenger steamer on
the lake, at some point on the shores
capital would erect hotel, with a
dance pavilion and other attractions
and the lake would soon become the
most popular summer resort in the
west.
All this would mean much to
Montpelier. as people from dis.
tance in going to and coming from
the lake would spend more or less
time here and there is not one bu,
what would leave little money II
the town. 'rnen the increase in
business the electric road would
bring by making Montpelier the
distributing point for large terri
tory from which 1t now derives bu
little benefit, would be of inestim
able value.
Now, as we understand it, Mr.
Slusser is not asking for any finan
clal aid from Montpelier, but |
does seem to us that it Is a question
which the commercial club SHOULD
take up, and if need be use its infiu
ence in any way possible to hell
push this enterprise along.
The other question which we hav
reference to, Is the Star Vale.
road. Montpelier is going to wax
mp one of these days before long an
find the Star Valley traffic going t
Cokeville, instead of coming here
Mr.. yaterlaus of the Alton Inde
pendent, was in Montpelier Monda
on his way home from Evanston
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