The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-04-29
ROBT. II. MOORE
VISITS RICHFIELD
Publicity Man Sees Sights Of City,
Speaks 0ptimisticaIiy of
Richfield's
Future.

Robert II. Murray, an old newspap-
er man of New York, and the public
ity man for all the J. G. White and
Company projects. was a Richfeld
visitor this week. lie came out TO
see Richfeld first, then went over
to the Dam. and will visit the Die
trich Segregation before leaving for
the great Oxbow power project on
the Snake river northwest of Boise.
Mr.. Murray gave the Recorder an in
terview, which most accurately and
capably sums up the outsiders view
of this section. The interview is here
given.
BEFORE leaving the East l had
become familiar, in a degree, with
the Idaho Irrigation Company's pro-
iect, but when I got on the ground
and began to visualize the things OF
which l had been told and of which
had read. l found that the condi-
tions had been understated, rather
than overstated.
In conversation with men in Chi
cago who have paid close attention
to irrigation and reclamation pro-
jects in all parts of the West, as well
as with talks with Idaho men whom
] met on the train, they all were en-
phatic in declaring that they regarded
the Idaho Irrigation company's enter
prise as the best and most conserva-
lively managed of any. They agreed
that the question of its success was in
no way open to doubt. A reflection
of this expert and unbiased judgment
for the men to whom ! refer are
not connected with the company in
any way=may be found in the steady
demand for and sale of the company's
securities. A representative of one
bond house told me that the Idaho
Irrigation Company's securities were
listed by them at the top OF their Of
ferings of gilt-edged securities, and
that this had been done only after
they had conducted the most search
ing investigation possible of the COM
pany's segregations, its plans, water
supply, it's methods of fnanceerings
and of the legal protection supplied
to investors in the bonds"
What do you think of Richfield
and its prospects?" Mr.. Murray was
asked.
Richfield is here to stay anH to
grow" was the reply. THAT is evil
dent. There are certain concrete in
dications of permancy and prosperity
that cannot be gainsayed. When one
sees a $4,000 hotel which in size,
beauty equipment and cost cannot be
duplicated in one in ten cities of
10000 inhabitants in the east and
middle west; a bank such as the
First State with its massive vaults,
beautiful marble and hardwood fit
tings and deposits of 100000;
steel water main being laid; hugh
10000 gallon water tank dominat-
ing the Landscapes; an incorporated
village government; stores and dwell
Iings going up in every direction, as
fast as they can get lumber and ma
terial on the ground, and a perman-
ent population of nearly one thous-
and intelligent, hustling, earnest,
high-class citizens-when one sees
all these things, | say, even a con-
frmed pessimist would be forced to
that Richfield is here to
stay and grow.
with the inevitable development
Of prosperous farming community
at it's back, on irrigated land, which,
FOR richness and productiveness, is
not exceeded in Idaho, it will be only
4 matter of months, not Of years, be-
fore Richfield wins it's way to the
forefront of the states important
owns. The growth of the town
strikes one with additional impress
;iveness when one realizes that its
beginnings date back only to last
November. There are towns back in
he East a hundred years old, which
n size, enterprise, capital invested,
business establishments and aids to
living, are inferior to
by fifty per cent.
II have been especially impressed
" the absence Of the wild irrespon-
ible boom" element here. mean
" that that the real estate values
re fixed ilpon a sane. conservative
asis. The lots are worth their price,
nore than their price, in fact. either
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