Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-03-28
IDAHO REPORTS
IN BIC DEMAND
Foreign Governments, Banks
Colleges Want to Know
of Resources

FernHpS no uOCunetll ever issued Dy
the state of idaho has been in more de-
mand than the report Of Colonel Allen
Miller the state commissioner of i'm
migration, labor and statistics, says
the Boise Statesman.
The office has been maintained for
years, but the appropriations have not
been such as to make 1t one Of the
strong departments of the state.
Neither has there been an effort on
the part of the legislature to make it
real, vital force for the colonization
Of the state or the discrimination of
useful information that would inter-
est outsiders in the wonders of Idaho.
Effert Now Apparent.
AS the years have passed, however,
and the state has grown, the real value
of the office has been more manifest
and larger appropriations have been
made as we'll as more interest taken
in making tlle oftiae effective. That
it is now really effective cannot be
doubted.
AS showing how the eyes of the out
side world are turned to Idaho, the
land of the tall pines, the magnificent
waterfalls, the fertile irrigation fields
and the countless treasures of gold
and other metals, a study of the mail
ing list of the state commissioner
would be most instructive.
This is not a mere complimentary
list, made up to reap personal prefer
ence or notoriety, or to get rid of so
many copies of the annual report, but
Is list of applicants who have writ
ten, some of them sending stamps or
other funds to pay for the information
they want about the Gem State of the
Mountains.
An Inquiry from Italy.
The minister of agriculture of the
kingdom of Italy is one of the interest
ed ones. He wants one of the reports,
for thousands of Italians come to
America every year, and he would be
willing to advise them where their
chances are the best The imperial
German consulate at Portland asks for
some of the books which tell of the
marvels of the wonderful new state.
Directeur de la Revue, in Bucharest
istischen amt, of Berlin, supplicate for
the booklets in the name of their re-
spective governments. The editor of
Intellectual. one of the foremost news
papers of Client, Belgium, looks for
this publication as a text book for his
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erica.
Banks, Colleges and Schools.
Samuel Gompers of Washington is
on the waiting list, most of the rail-
roads of the country. especially those
that have anything like western con-
over their counters.
The director of the Boston Children's
Aid Society, an organization that cares
for the homeless waits of the great
but cold city on the bleak Atlantic
asks for booklet. Perchance his lit
tie charges may find homes in the warm
hearted west. where generosity is more
than culture.
Banks by the score, colleges, semin-
aries. high schools, almost every line
of business, is represented, from almost
every state in the Union. Manila, too
sends its request for information OF
the irrigation fields. And one request
comes from the homely name of home
ly names, in a country where name:
seldom rise to the beautiful or thu
sublime-Yellville. Arkansas,
judge Mcllvaine Writes.
On Judge IN Pennsylvania Judge
John A. McIlvaine, of the Twenty
seventh judicial district. writes con-
corning the report He says that somt
of his people are looking for invest
ments. and that the irrigation lands
seem to offer good, stable security.
He wishes information as to the re-
sources of the state. such information
as comes in the report of the stat'
commissioner saying that as guardi'
ans and estate trustees In his distric
are empowered to invest the funds
of their wards in good securities. 1t !!
the province of the court to approve
such investments. He infers that 4
Idaho makes the right kind Of showint
irrigation bonds are just as his cour
would like to approve.
with the growth of the state. which
for a long number of years will meaI
that each new conner. each new indus
try. will open up still other resources
as yet undreamed of and undiscovered
the need of such an office to serve as I
herald, a harbinger of good news to tn,
outside world, will grow with eacl
year.
Peep Into the Future.
Until there are million. or TIVE
million, or three million people in thu
state, until the mines turn out a stream
of gold and silver almost like TREY nov
turn out Of lead, and the irrigated
fields glut the markets with the fines