Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-04-10
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competitive market and he will got
good Price for his product.
Get a meat packing house here"
continued Mr.. Mills, you go into ohr
stores and you see piles of Armour and
Swift bacon and hams and the reports
show that we are shipping out each
year 1900 carloads of livestock that
is taken East and manufactured.
Canneries and Factories.
"See that we are prepared to handle
the fruit crop for the coming season.
We are on the eve of harvesting the
greatest fruit crop the country has
seen and we AL know that there are
large quantities of fruit unfit for mar
ket purposes that should be canned,
preserved and made into jellies. Are
we prepared to handle this or win we
allow It to decay and then send large
sums of money to the East and I'LL our
counters with a foreign manufacture
product?
1--WE need horse collar factory and
there is no reason why we are not sup.
plying the entire Inland Empire with
horse collars made here. You may
smile when I say make horse collars
here but 1 know what I am talking
about.
IT buy my horse collars from s..
Louis firm and this firm buys its leath-
err from the same tannery 1 patronize
in California. 1t costs $40 to ship the
leather from Sacramento to St. Louis
and $3.50 to ship the collars from s..
Louis to Lewiston, while the freight
from Sacramento to Lewiston is but
$3.50 and we are burning up thousands
of tons of straw each year. Nebraska
has four horse collar factories and
there is not a tannery in the state.
Portland has factory and not only
is It necessary to ship in the leather,
but the straw used in filing is shio-
ped from the Inland Empire as straw
in the Willamette valley does not pos
sess sufficient fibre for the packing u
horse collars
Why Trade Is Lost.
Mr. AIIardyce, who is the manager OF
one of the largest mining companies
in the Clearwater country. told why
the city was not getting the trade that
should come here.
IT am not a Lewiston man." said
Mr.. AIlardyce, "but l am representa- ig
an Eastern mining company thar
spends large sums of money each year
for supplies that should be purchased
here.
my company is composed of East
ern capitalists, who expect to get the
most possible out of each dollar ex-
pended. We buy our supplies twice
each year and I have come into Lewis
ton and tried to get prices that would
enable me to do business with your
merchants, but have not been able to
/ do so.
your wholesale houses VIII not sell
1 our concern because we are not mer-
| chants and l can go into Portland and
buy my goods, pay local freight on the
same to this point and then save 81
per cent on the purchase.
THAT is why money is going into
other points for merchandise and a:
soon as your dealers can get thell
prices right there win be marked IN
crease in trade"
Street Paving.
The street paving question was dis
cussed by M. A. Means G. w. Tanna
hill DR. Salisbury, William Bollinge
and others. The committee will as
certain the costs of various kinds Q
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character of each.
The meeting expressed itself as IA
vorable to paving d street with SID
streets as soon as the matter can b
in readiness and the pavement com
: mittee was authorized to appoint sub
committees to confer with Main stre'
property owners with view of hay
ing the entire business district pave
at the same time.
To Executive Committee Lewiston
Charleston $4,000 Club-w. H, New
ton, President, Fred II. Wood, Sci
rotary:
Gentlemen: Your committe {
$4,000 population" beg for authori
to inaugurate letter writing conte
N in the public schools of Lewiston,
be conducted on lines somewhat sim
y lar to the contest recently so succts
fully ronducted in the Charleston pul
lie schoole The contest will be op
to the pupils of the High school, gran
mar and intermediate department
The letters will relate to Lewiston
Charleston and the surrounding count
and prizes will be given as follows:
High school best, $40; second SIS
third So. Grammar, best $3.50, secon
So; third. $3.50. intermediate, best
second $3.50. third 81.
The letters must be mailed to poin
at a distance of at least 100 miles fro
Lewiston. factor in judging of t
merits of the letters will be the "boos
err" spirit displayed. We also recon
n,api that later a similar contest