Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-05-04
Prof. E. E. Elliott Tells Of Needs OF
Bonner County Before Standpoint
Commercial Club
COOPERATION IS A NECESSITY
Urges Good Roads, More Water Routes
and Experimental Farms

state university ana now IdlChSi
of the Kootenai valley, addressed
the Standpoint commercial club at
the Wednesday noon luncheon
upon needs of the county.
He said the country depended
upon two things, its natural re-
sources and the people i'll the
country. What the resources were
could not be determined at this |
time. Three things were visible,
its mineral resources, its timber
and its land. The land would re-
main after the other two resources
were exhausted, growing i'll value
and productiVeness. Caution should
be used in the advertising of the
country, and it should not be
doomed beyond what it has. There
was no one who could do the
country more harm than the man
who had come into it and went
away feeling jobbed. -
To get permanent popula-
ton - declared Mr. Elliott, you
have got to have cheap land.
Settlers will not go where land is
high. A good thing to do would
be for the commercial bodies of the
county to find where land can be
bought cheaply and put on the
market at cheap prices. Some OF
this land is in the hands of specu-
lators who are willing to part with
it upon margin of profit. These
lands should all be ascertained and
placed on the market. Another
good idea is to secure legislation
whereby the stump land may be
redeemed by the state making loans
upon cut-over land with conditions
made for a certain amount of i'm
provement to be made by the set
tier. The state is making farm
loans now. 1t could make loans tc
the farmer on the cut-over land:
also.
Prof. Elliott brought up NUM-
Der of topics during his half hour
talk. The number of stumps be
tween the city of Standpoint and
the Great Northern depot, he
said, is a menace to your secur
ing the attention of the would-he
settler when he comes here over
that line of railroad. Your city
should have an ordinance whereby
any lots with stumps upon then
can be cleared of stumps and the
property holder held for payment.
Mr.. Elliott stated that the state
needed drainage laws. There were
| 100 600 acres in the lower Kootena
| valley which should be drained
but the state had no adequate law
under which to handle the propo
sition. The history of drainage il
the state of Idaho, he said, hat
been nil.
| Prof. Elliott said the county wa
| woefully in need of good road
which were the true tests of
| country advancement. Trunl
lines were needed to connect wit
Bonners Ferry and Standpoint, tn
two centers of the county. !
county could make no better i'll
vestment than III good roads. TIL
| speaker favored bond issue @
the county for the construction c
needed trunk lines.
II More telephone communicate
| throughout the county was also
| need. New legislation had bee
| passed last winter whereby district
in British Columbia received gov
ernment aid i'll the establishment
of rural telephone lines. TIL
water way routes of the count
should also he used to a create
extent and those who started boz
routes should be patronized {
much as possible, for the establish
! msnt of water ways always mear