Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-01-08
SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1910

spread publicity than ever before.
The contention over waterpower
sites in Washington, Montana,
Oregon and Idaho haa given the
whole country food for thought.
knowledge of Alaska has always
been vague away from the Pacific
Coast, but the present difference of
opinion as to the best way to con
serve the natural resources of that
vast storehouse is making it known
in every home. This farm of mag
azine and newspaper publicity for
Alaska and the Northwest. This
will continue through the winter
invIew of the congressional investi-
cation soon to start. So that in
the end good is sure to come out of
regrettable episode.
Cooperating with other western
cities, Seattle and Tacoma have
joined in the movement to pursuade
Theodore Roosevelt to return from
his African hunting trip by the
way of the Pacific Coast. Several
large newspapers have banded to-
gether to send messenger to Khar-
tuem in February to lay the matter
before the former president. If he
accepts, large preparations will be
made to give him such an grafton
no homecoming traveller has over
received.
AS part of the movement to at
tract tourist travel to the North
west, one of the finest hotels in
America is to be built at Solduc
Hot Springs in the Olympic Noun
tains, at the cost of $4,000,
1t will be the first hotel in
which all of the cooking and heat
ing, as we'll as the lighting, will be
done by electricity. The Swiss
chalet style of architecture, appro-
pirate because of the strong simil-
ariiy between the Olympics and
the Alps, will be used. All of the
timber will be hauled in, as the
surrounding forest is to DE preserv.
ed. The Olympic Leader is auth
ority for the statement that 10000
feet of lumber have already been
taken in as far as Lake Crescent so
that work can begin as soon as the
spring season arrives.
What Commercial Bodies are
doing Washington" is the title Of
an interesting summary by H. O.
Stechhan, in the January issue Of
Pacific Northwest Commerce. Ac-
to the figures gathered from all
corners of the state, there are 125
commercial organizations with 8
total of 1902 mem bers on their
rolls, engaged in carrying on the
booster work for Washington. These
clubs spent nearly half a million
dollars in 1909 for advertising pur
poses and settled some $4,000 new.
Corners in the state. If there il
any doubt as to the efficiency o.
commercial organization, the foil
owing extracts from the review
should dispel it.
Figures gathered by Pacific
Northwest Commerce prove conclu
sively that the commercial organ
izstions of Washington are doing
invaluable work in settling up the
state and developing its resources
Difficult as it is to summarize the
net results accomplished, general
statistics have been assem- led on
which fairly accurate conclusion
can be based. While not without
Its handicaps, the investigation
has proved worth while, in the
opening of mine of information,
which heretofore has been prospect
ed only IN haphazard way.
"At the outset it is interesting to
note that by far the greater part of
the clubs reporting are active. In
this connection, it has been observ-
ed, that activity and finances go
hand in hand. Therever a club