The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-11
WILL BENEFIT us.
The meeting Of the National Wool

WILL DEM UpA1 W.
The meeting Of the National Wool
growers Association at Pocatello
next month means a great deal for
Idaho and especially to Pocatello and
nearby towns. Any convention OF
such magnitude coming to a locality
has its immediate burdens and its
after effects, and Pocatello is shout
dering the burdens and making
preparations to receive the benefits.
The immediate b0rdens of such a
meeting are the furnishing Of places
Of meeting for the main body and
for many large committee meetings,
taking care Of the delegates as they
arrive and getting them comfortably
housed and in a general way acting
the part of host.
All this requires money and much
work, and good local organization
is necessary to do it. The benefits
to be derived are mainly for meals
and rooms, and such incidental ex-
penses as delegates may make dur
ing their stay, but the after effects
Of such conventions come during a
period of months and years, and
come to the country at large.
Men attending the meetings may
be impressed with the beauties OF the
town, it's natural advantages, its To-
cation for future growth and bust
ness, its climate, it's people and their
ways, it's educational advantages or
lack of them, it's good or bad water
supply, the cheapness of it's real
estate or the high prices asked for
real estate that cause him to go out
investigating to see what conditions
of the surrounding country warrant
such prices and such prospects. He
talks it over with others in the hotels
and on the trains, and when he gets
home he tells interested friends a
great deal about the place and It's
surroundings. The questions they
ask set him to looking up the litera-
ture handed him while there, and
that is passed from one to another
and the place gets a lot of free ad-
vertising.
Some of these people are interested
and afterwards visit the place to con-
slider investing or locating, and
whether they do or not, they leave
some tourist money" in town while
there, and they in turn go their way
giving the place some free advertising
and whether it Is good or bad for the
place depends very much on the
character of the people in the place
and especially the hotel men and
other business men they meet.
Besides this, these big conventions
furnish the opportunity for people to
visit localities on the reduced rates
made tor the occasion, even though
they are not interested in the bust
ness of the convention, and such
people put in all their time sight see
ing or Investigating the particular
things they want to know about.
In the case of the Woolgrowers
convention at Pocatello, many men
will come because they want to see
American Falls or Blackfoot or the
big canal systems that are rapidly
connecting them, or Sunnyland or Ell
gin Bench of Powell Flats or Twin
Falls or Gooding- on-the- Main Line,
and they run out from the Gate City
to look and spend some money, and
some of them make investments that
are good for them and for the COM
munity. Those who do not invest,
leave some money wherever they go,
and they do some advertising for the
locality on their way home and after
they get home.
Utah received tremendous influx
of settlers and money in consequence
of the meeting of the Irrigation Con-
gress at Ogden, and Idaho is receiv-
ing much benefit from the meeting at
Boise two years ago.
Pocatello is doing much for east
ern Idaho in securing the big gath
ering of sheepmen, and deserves
something more than the thanks Of
the surrounding towns.
To ENJ,ARGE THE ACADEMY.