The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-02-13

a number of millions more from this
in one year. You must know
if you stop to consider the question
that only small part of the total mil
lions in values of this county are rep
resented in actual cash in circulation.
Do YOU stop to consider that of all of
sold by the merchants only the profits
really represent the actual money in
circulation on which you have to work
in conjunction with the rest of the cit
liens each day of the year? Do you
stop to realize that the banks of Twin
Falls and of this county have to re-
fuse your requests for loans when the
money shortage hits them from the
cutting off of eastern capital in hard
times. Do you realize that the work
ing banking capital of the banks
which carry you if you have to be car
ried is the aforesaid profits made by
you on your farms products and on
the merchandise sold by the mer-
chants? Do you figure that every cent
of your profit on your farm products
sent out of the county is directly TAX
ing money from circulation from the
community, causing you to pay high
er rate of interest for the money you
may have to borrow, and in turn max
ing your profits less by just that
much? There is not farmer or me-
chanic but what knows when the mon
ey in circulation is curtailed that there
is a corresponding falling off of the
demand for workmen and the demand
for farm products. In fact every line
of the home interests are made to feel
the lack of money. Here Mr.. Farmer
is one place where your interests are
on the side of the home merchants
! You know full well, that ten thou
sand dollars a month of the profits on
| your products with which you support
your family cannot be sent out of the
county circulation without you your
self paying dearly for the act, together
with your home merchant and the
home laborer. It is the history of the
mail order business that small towns
| have gone into decline and decay
where the bulk of it's citizens have sent
the money out of that town. The
banker sought better fields, the enter
prising merchants were forced out OF
| the business and the thriving town
changed to a cross corners trading
point for actual necessities. The land
values dependent upon that active
| town and upon the market for farm
products for it's fixed value, died with
the town. So that in the long run the
three classes so inseperably bound to-
gether by mutual interests paid dearly
for the seeking of the present good
at the expense of the future.
So much for the monetary side Of
/ the question. To get at the next we
must indulge in some history familiar
to the most of you. Twin Falls
sprang up in the night, as it might bt
said, truly magic city. Why? Tht
Twin Falls tract began to show thu
thrifty fields after only a short perioC
of time after the water was promised
Why? Was the sage brush land valu
able in it's barren state? What mad
it advance in value by unprecedented
leaps and bounds? Just think it over
Older communities have had yaluabl
land in the non-arid regions. Their
are other irrigated tracts in the west
What made Twin Falls tract forge t
the front? Let us tell you if you hav
not thought to out. 1t was the mutua
cooperation of the merchant, tn
rancher and the laborer. The ranch
!. ers came, some with money, som
without, and took up land. The me1
chant came with his goods and the la
! borer came with his tools. Fac
sought his own good in his own way
but in a short time the three wer
working hand in hand, because eac
; could help himself by helping tn