Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-10
BOOSTING FOR THE WEST
The Western Banker Sees Great Good
in Newest Effort.
LAND PRODUCTS SHOW A WINNER
Surplus Money Can De AiOst Profit
ably Invested in Land and the
west offers the very Beet
Qpp9FtuHity.


In the current issue Of the Western
Banker, out this week, appears the follow
ing editorial on the topic, Moving Emigra-
ton Westward;
During the last few years thousands Of
farmers in the middle west and thousands
OF dollars have gone into Canada. Okla
homa and Texas. This has been the result
Of the well organized effort from Canada
and the southwest and lack of competition
on the part of the west and northwest. 1t
is not only Of advantage 70 the states in
the newer vest but also to the states in
the Missouri river valley that the resources
OF the western half Of the continent should
be developed and its valleys peopled
The history Of pioneer movement has
been since the settlement of our country
that people have moved due westward
across the continent. For example, the
people Of Virginia settled Kentucky; the
Kentuckians settled Missouri; the Mis-
souuans are settling Arkansas, New Mex
leo and Arizona. Colorado has drawn most
largely from Nebraska, kansas, Iowa and
Illinois. The great railroad trunk lines
likewise run almost due west. The natural
drift Of population is along lines OF least
resistance and from the Missouri river val
ley it should be TO the intermountain and
Pacific coast states. With a lack OF or
ganized opposition, this stream has been
diverted very largely to Canada. Oklahoma
and Texas.
inveHttnE Surplus I'm New Sections.
To-day the Missouri river valley Is fur
nishing more people and more money to
the new sections than from any other ter
ri nF o..
plus earnings are large and a great many
farmers who homesteaded or bought their
land at low price are able to sell out
at big profit and they very naturally
figure on doing the same thing over again
in a new country. These people are going
to invest their money In land somewhere.
The only question, from the standpoint Of
the Western Bankers interest is, where
viii they SO and what land will lthey buy?
You can make up your mind that some of
the people win move somewhere and a
large Number will keep right on putting
their money into land.
For the first time there is an organized
movement to direct this tide Of immigra-
ton westward. The movement has been
started By the publishers pt The Omaha Bee
and The Twentieth Century Farmer, which
qualifications have been deYotng q very
large amount of 81 ace and a very consid-
erable effort in this direction. They have
likewise aroused the activity Of the inter-
ested railroads-the Hill system, the Harrl-
man system the Northwestern ana the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Western Land Products Exhibit.
In order to promote their work and as
means to this end, this publisher has
organized the Western Land Products ex
hihit, which will be held in Omaha in
January, 1911 There will be exhibits from
every western state. The object OF this
exposition is to bring a practical demon
stration OF what the west can do direct
to the people of the Missouri river valley.
1t will be an actual and authentic demon
stration OF what can be grown, Of the cost
OF production, Of the financial returns and
OF the conditions under which crops are
produced, 50 that interested parties can OBJ
tain practical and accurate information.
This exposition is also the means OF
arousing interest and activity in the inter
mountain and Pacific slope states in the
general movement and promises to be most
effective.
Here is food for thought for the bank
ers in the Missouri river valley and in the
intermountain and Pacific coast states
The movement is distinctly to the interest
Of every western banker, and he should
take advantage Of this general movement
by doing what he can to divert the stream
Of immigration and the flow OF money.
which has been going to Canada and to
the south, and turn it to Its proper chan
nel--the Newer West"