The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-05
THE COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT
AND THEIR WORTH 70 ALL;

ne ,OOVNJ0V VONU6SrONO6NI
| AND THEIR WORTH 70 ALL;
This article was started first as
q letter CT thanks to gentlemen
at Pingree, who gave this paper a
splendid account, of q Christmas en-
tertainment given in that town, but
as. we progressed we were egotisti.
cal enough to think. that It was
good enough to give to our. entire
corps of correspondents 10 we with
held the first part and give to the
writer's the following parts Of the
letter.
Good live news from outlying dis
tricts 10 very hard to get. and yet
it is one Of the most essential parts
Of newspaper. And especially
weekly paper that goes out to the
rural districts. Another phase Of
the news from the country districts
is this. The Optimist has q large
circulation outside OF this county. We
send about 800 papers to the east
ern part Of the middle west. Not
infrequently we receive inquiries
about some particular section of
Bingham county, and in the same let
ter will be the statement Judging
from the amount Of news you print
from that section Judge that it
must be thriving community
You probably do not know that %
out Of every 100 prospective set
tiers with their eye on this country.
write to some paper either here or
at Idaho Falls and ask for, a sample
copy Of the paper, stating that they
contemplate locating among us and
would like tc, familiarise themselves
with conditions. Too many cores
pondents look only for news that is
purely personal, and in that they are
fright, for there is mo- greater sub
scription getter than for q man to
see his name in print, but it does
not quite cover the field. Describe tn
improvements made by the neighbc1
hood and in doing it enter into the
detail. We all know that the fol
lowing would not be. worth reading:
bill Smith built q pig pen last
week but a correspondent coult
say that william Smith, one of the
progressive farmers who within the
last year, took up his residence II
this community, coming from a large
ranch he sold east CT Blackfoot. has
seen the fallacy Of keeping stool
without having them we'll housed an
cared for, and has recently complete
one CT the most modern houses TO
pigs ever constructed In this par
, Of Idaho It is a model Of. conven
fence, with watering troughs, fee
boxes and is equipped so that
can be ventilated from the top lend
or side) and yet no chilling draft
of winter can blow upon the animal
confined within"
= About four-fifths ct the foregoin
1 about Bill would be lie probabl
but it leads the prospective carter
= buyer to believe that the people ar
progressive, Bill sees his name i
s the paper, laughs at the boost give
r him, gees out and sees the mowin
! machine standing in the field wher
he last used It. thinks that it don
look we'll for q, man ofhis standin
In the community to have his tool
thrown around like that, pulls it II
to a shed thereby saving the dete
ioration following exposure to tn
III elements, gets to thinking about tn
fact that a coed pig pen might pr
tect his hogs better than the mai
shift he did build, gets busy durin
the winter months, builds an ide
, house for the swine, begins to tai
\ care of his stock, saves some Of Il
spring pigs from dying from exposu
subscribes for good stock journa
gets a few new ideas about how
do work easier and with less tin
than it took the old way, and final
Bills ranch is a model Of conve
fence, cleanliness and Bill shaw
on Saturday and is good model j,
follow and the little innocent exa
geration of country corresponds
~ has done a three fold good. 1t h
. made the outside world believe tn
there are wide awake, progressi
farmers in the community, 1t h
saved one of the farmers money
awakening in him a desire to be
leader as farmer and the care
his tools, stock and general equ
ment follows, and 1t has tended
add one more model farm to the &C
munity, thereby enhancing the val
of ho pronorfv in that diCt riot I'll