The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-15
COMMERCIAL
CLUB ELECTS
Plans Are Outlined.

! Plans Are Outlined.
| Mr.. Morrow said in part as follows
When fellow gets into an office
of this kind. it is much different from
his regular routine Of work. He is
now working for the public, when he
has been used to working for himself,
following out his own ideas in busi-
ness way and listening only to his
own view of the matter. IN one sense,
but / feel it is the duty of anyone
accepting such an office, as I am now
honored with, to express his views
of what he thinks is the best policy
to pursue. He must also put aside
his individual ideas to some extent
in favor Of the public, although / do
not think that a man should have no
ideas, or be afraid to follow out any
/ he does have. l am enthused with the
idea that we can do great things in
this city and valley, and while our
report has shown this club and direc-
/ tors have done great work and have
met with some criticism, which was
expected and desired, We feel that
there is much yet to be done. think
that the possibilities Of this valley and
city among it's business men and in
| this valley among it's farmers, is
something we shrould be proud Of and
is going to bring results. The amount
of money subscribed for the publicity
campaign this year is not nearly as
much as last year There is no good
reason why this should be the case.
We feel that the people are satisfied
with the work done by the club and
| nv &c h0 hn1 cd or
ings last year and this called for a
great deal of work.
North Yakima an Example.
| think that the best and only way
for Walla Walla to get the results
desired is to follow after the plan
of North Yakima. We have a live
club, although figures don't show it,
as last year we had 40 members,
while now we have only 157, and
should be able to follow out this pol
icy. Another thing is that we should
get the people to invest here instead
Of elsewhere. The club should bring
before the people what the advantages
are here and why they should invest
here. There is no reason why they
should not, for we have the country
and every favorable condition. North
Yakima banks have q deposit of ST.
| 100000 more than all the banks in
Walla Walla, and the only way we
can come up to this is to get the peo-
pie to invest here, and keep their
| money here. There are several ways
of doing this, but to my mind the
breaking up of these larger farms in
to acreage tracts is the secret of the
| problem"
E. c. Burlingame. the second speak
er, brought out more distinctly the
plan of following in North Yakima s
footsteps. Mr. Burlingame said In
part as follows: when l first saw
Walla Walla, I said to myself that
this is no place for me. 1t is a good
town, rich farming country, but the
people are selfish, contented and are
satisfied with their reputation Of be-
ing a substantial wheat raising COM
munity. Now ! have changed my
views and am proud to see the change
that has taken place and the lively
and active Commercial club we now
have.
''Walla Walla has resources un-
limited To my mind we ought TO
be able to bring in 10000 families in
the next ten years into this valley,
and l will make it my special duty to
bring 1000 OF them. The first 500
families are the hardest to get, but
with them settled here the results of
their advertising will attract the rest
| in short order.
I'm advertising my Gardena tracts,
first planted it to alfalfa and then
wrote to every hay dealer 1 could find
in the state asking for quotations on
my hay. | sent so or 20 letters out
and the most peculiar thing was
found in each one Almost every
dealer said that I'VE did not know
Walla Walla raised anything but
wheat" Last year we shipped out 500
carloads, at practically $3.50 per car
This brings in money to the COM
munity.
What WalIa WalIa Could Do.
Ten years ago North Yakima was
nothing but alfalfa, excepting hokus-
p kus orchard of many varieties, but
the farmers cut the land up and plant
ed a few varieties of apples by mis-
take, which happened to be the very
thing desired by the buyers. and as
a result the news spread among the
buyers that North Yakima had what
they wanted and they go there to buy
drawing hundreds of small farmers
there.
"A friend of mine told me short
time ago that in the last five years