Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-14
IDAHO MAN ON The OUTLOOK
Finds General Conditions All in
Favor of Continued Prosperity.
OMAHA ovERLooKs OPPORTUNITY
Colonel J. NJ. InEersoII of PocatellO
Tells of Chances for Gate City
Merchants to DO More
business.


Pocatello, Ida, owner OF large interests
at crawford, Neb., and large holder of
iuaho CITY property, arrived in Omaha
yesterday, from business visit to Craw-
tord, and Is registered at the Henshaw
IN northwest Nebraska conditions are
very good They were a little frightened
about crops for while but they are get
ting rain now and everything has a more
hopeful look. 1 believe that this year is
to be most prosperous year for the peo-
pie in the cities of the east; especially
those which have trade relation with the
west.
In the west we have not suffered from
weather conditions Of the last winter and
spring as have the sections of the mid
west. and our crops will be bumper ones.
This is especially true of fruit of all sorts.
Our grain crops, from all indications, will
DO as large as we ever had and in a coun-
try, where we raise sixty bushels Of wheat
to the acre, this means something.
People Ready to Buy.
Our people will be ready to buy the
best of everything next fall and winter.
And they will buy, as western people al
ways do, the best and pay the best prices.
Our banks have the mony; our crops will
be in strong demand in every market in
the world, and we will get the long cash
price from every purchaser. In this in
stance it is tho west that is making the
of the east.
Il lived in Omaha almost a half century
ago. / was stationed at old Fort Omaha
and remember this city, when it was a
shanty town. 1t looked strange to me to
see the City National sky-scraper loom
ing against the skyline, when came In
here tonight. My traditions are all Omaha
traditions and my sympathies are all with
the development of Omaha and of Ne
braska 1 was a subscriber of the Omaha
Bee thirty eight years ago and remember
the founder of the newspaper very well.
Mr.. Edward Rosewater was one of the
strongest editorial writer's that ever lived.
He was one OF the editors like Watterson
and Medill; the like of whom are all gone
and whom we will probably never see
again.
Omaha's Opportunity.
TT is for these reasons, maybe, that
am interested to know why Omaha does
not make a stronger effort to get all of
our western business. Every pound of
freight that comes to Idaho or to Salt Lake
City, for that matter, comes through
Omaha over the Union Pacific. And l
understand that comparatively very little of
it originates here Every pound of produce
that comes from our soil must come
through Omaha to go to the consuming
markets of the country. 1 understand that
yerv little of it is distributed from here.
And yet in that business there is a vast
sum of money. Hundreds of thousands of
dollars will be t6e annual reward of the
men or the city full of men who reach out
and grasp for this trade today and now.
Your banks here ought to be getting after
our reserve deposits. Your wholesale fruit
and commission merchants ought to be
reaching out forouour produce and your
merchants ought 10 be grasping for our
trade.
PocntelIO's Business.
Take Pocatello for example. There is
city, the second largest in the state. 1t
has a population of over 10000, and is the
distributing point for three times as many
more people Every one of these people is
a producer. Men, women, and the larger
children, all work out in the west. How
much of that demand does Omaha supply?
The country has grown up so wonderfully
and with such remarkable rapidity that it
has run away from you here. You do not
understand what has occurred out there,
with our government irrigation enterprises;
with the $13O,OOO,OO0 that the Pittsburg
Kuhns have spent in our reclamatic pro-
jects and all that has gone to make a new
state full of people out there.
II would be glad to see Omaha grasp for
this business. 1 would be glad to see much
of this money come back to Omaha and
Nebraska, where some of II, which has
been invested out there, came from in the
first place. We have many former Nebras-
kans living there and all Of them are doing
well.
Omaha Men Doing Well.
Burt B. Corliss, formerly connected with
the Waterloo creamery of Omaha-his
brother runs it yet-is there in charge OF
one Of our creamerles. He has regained his
health, is looking big, fat and sassy, and is
making money and doing well.
Harry Peterson, we'll known here in
Omaha came out there as a drummer for
one of the Omaha business houses. He, too,
is doing we'll. Peterson has made $4,000 out
there in the last five or six years Up at
Ashton the whole, town is made up Of
former Nebraskans, and the same is al
most true of st. Anthony. Indeed, at that
place Guy Bowerman, the president of the
First National bank of St. Anthony, is a
stockholder in the City National here, and
some of our Idaho money went into the
building of Omaha's only skyscraper.
"It will pay Omaha to cultivate Idaho
Idaho is Union Pacific territory and Union
Pacific territory is Omaha's territory. The
Union Pacific railway owns every pound
of rails in that country. 1t means much
to Omaha TO help develop this Idaho terri
tory. 1t will give back all the money you
put into the state; give it back an hundred
fold"
Colonel Ingersoll will be in Omaha all
day today and leaves for Kansas City to-
night He expects to return to Idaho in a
| few days.