The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-02-10
Join the Commercial Club and Boost

the club will hold its annual election
next Monday evening. Only one ticket
is 70 be voted On, and the election IS
merely ratification Of the action Of
the petitioners.
The good work accomplished by the
club during the first year Of It's exist
ence should serve as an incentive 10
further and greater effort TO advance
the interests Of Leayenworth and the
country tributary TO il. The member
ship has worked tremendously and been
strikingly free from dissension. That
more might have been accomplished is
very probable. II lacked the support
and counsel Of lot Of citizens Of the
town who should have joined forces
with it and by their help the good
work Of development and upbuilding
would have shown greater results.
The possibility for effort in the in
terest Of this community was never 50
good as right now. The Upper We
natchee Valley is on the Threshold Of
a great future. This year will mark
the turning OF the tide. There are
possibilities for building city with a
population of five or ten thousand peo-
pie in a comparatively short time if the
people are alive to those possibilities.
We have pointed some of them out.
The steel industry itself may become
responsible for an addition Of twenty
five families within a few months. A
marble, cement and lime industry may
add as many more. The building Of
irrigation canals and power plants may
call for the spending Of millions in this
immediate vicinity inside Of a few
years. These are not idle dreams. We
have marble here OF the finest quality
and almost inexhaustible quantity. The
water to make productive half million
acres Of dry land flows by our door.
Within few miles OF the town there
are power sites where untold thousands
OF horsepower Of that mysterious energy
known as electricity may be developed.
Following in the wake Of such accom-
plishment as may grow out Of the
things here limited at others will iney-
itably follow. Once the ball Of devel-
opment is started rolling in the right
direction no one can tell where it will
stop.
What We need to bring this condi-
ton about is united action. Every
citizen Of the town should join forces
with the Commercial Club and assist
with their counsel and financial support.
Above all things desist from discour-
aging comment on any enterprise that
may be mentioned in your presence,
however impracticable the project may
seem to you. If you hear man say
he intends to establish college here
to teach Hebrew and Sanskrit. Do not
laugh or make disparaging comment
the habit will grow on you; besides you
cannot see into other mems minds,
and do not know their plans. A
scheme may seem utterly impossible
and foolish to you and yet be perfectly
clear and entirely feasible to another.
Just say: All right, my friend, 90
ahead; l wish you Godspeed I" And
as his enterprise takes shape add as
much material help to your moral sup
port as your circumstances will permit.
When the first man talked OF build
ing a railroad, he was told by knocker
that it was perfectly impractcable. A
locomotive and train OF cars, as heavy
as they would necessarily have to be,
once got into motion and going at the
rate OF six miles an hour, would get be-
yond human control and destroy life.
He advised him TO give up such a fool
ish, impracticable dream, and to bend
his energy to the discovery OF some
kind of axle grease for the oxcart that
would never need renewing.
For heavens sake, do not knock but
one thing-the fellows head who goes
about discouraging everything and ev-