Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-08-02
It's Up to You.
Special Correspondence

Iortiduu, Or., July ~, lSUI.
Several cities, towns and villages in
this state will make material addition
to their population as result OF ener.
getic work done collectively through
the commercial bodies and individually
by the citizens in advising thousands OF
people back East of the low-priced one
way colonist rates which will be put OH
sale September | and continue until
October 81, to Oregon, from all points
in the United States.
These rates are agreed upon by all
the railroads in the United States and
Canada and are controlled by the Trans
Continental Passenger Association, and
Oregonians must bear in mind that the
home maker is being invited on similar
rates to Canada, California. Washing
ton, Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma and
other states, and the state and com.
munity 10 which he will buy ticket is
the one that convinces him in. advance
that their particular spot on this great
earth is the one in which he should
live. We have only one month left
before the sale begins.
Rates to Oregon from Kansas City.
Omaha, st. Paul, Minneapolis, and all
the great Missouri Valley and west of
there, is $25, with reduction of $3.50
"n each ticket east of Uma,illa: from
st. Lonis, $50; Chicago, $33; New York,
$50. and proportionate rate from every
other point, large or small, but this
ticket must be bought to your station,
and not to Portland or some other CITY.
II you expect them to come to you, and
it devolves upon the readers OF this
paper to see that every letter that goes
out of1the postoffice carries with it cor
rect information relative to these rates.
Get all the facts from your local agent.
Get yonr commercial body, or som,
one of your business men to offer
prize to the boys and girls who will
write the greatest number of letters, or
who will get actual results in bringing
another family into the community.
Get together from 10 to % active
citizens, raise little fund for the pub
lication of small leahet giving the I'M
portant facts relative to your COM
munity, along with these rates, and
have the leafiet so light that it would
not add to the cost of postage of let
ter, and have copy of it put in every
letter written.
Several ministers throughout the diff
ferent parts of the state, realizing the
Importance of these rates, are anuounc-
ing the details abont them to their
congregations and are asking that they
write 10 their relatives and friends at
distance and tell them how cheaply
they can come to Oregon.
The work Of advertising these colonst
rates is up to each community and each
individual. If we could add a hundred
thousand to the population of Oregon
in the next year IL wonld add many
millions of dollars of additional wealth
to the state.
The school population of one district
in Tillamook county was doubled in
six months through the correspondence
of the pupils. Corvallis caused the
sale of 100000 worth OF land through
advertising in well-known agricultural
papers in the older states. The Oregon
Development League received over
$1,000 inquiries from people wanting to
know about Oregon farming lands
There is an intense desire to come tn
the Pacific Northwest on the part of
people of the United States, and this is
particularly true of Oregon. Make it
intensely true OF your community, Get
more particulars; post others; put up
attractive notices in the postotiice and
in other public places; get newcomers
to write to their old home papers, and
as an inducement to do this, let them
understand that they can compete for
the eighty prizes, or q total OF $4,000.
offered by the Portland Commercial
Club.
Nothing means so much to Oregon as
the colonist rates, and when you read
this remember that there is only one
month in which to get in advance work.
Don't allow that lazy feeling 10 keep
you from doing your duty. he new
home.maker may buy something you
want fossil. Tom RICHARDSON,
Secretary Oregon Development League.