Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-04-26
IDAHO PRESENTS
A GREAT FIELD

ticle from the pen of d. e. Burley,
general passenger agent for the Shor
Line, published in the current num-
Der of the Idaho Club Woman--See
Idaho First" magazine. It follows:
Idaho possesses practically every
thing that any eastern state does to
attract the attention of the manu-
facturer, including mineral deposits o
many kinds; agricultural production
second to none; timber i'm vast guam
titles; and conditions decidedly fav-
orable for the raising of cattle,
sheep and hogs; but over and above
all other claims the state may make
for supremacy as a prospective man.
ufacturing commonwealth, it en-
braces one immeasurably rich re-
source, and that is an unlimited wat
er power supply. The utilization of
this resource is at present but in it's
infancy.
while water has wrought mir
acle in making of Idaho the great
est irrigation state in the union, its
value as factor for putting into mo-
ton the myriad Of manufactures has
been but slightly realized. therefor,
Idaho has bright future almost un-
equaled and capital awakening to-
this fact, Is beginning to harness
the power sources of the great Snake
river and its tributaries, and with
each advance made, innumerable av-
enues are opened to the manufactur-
er, SO that Idaho may frankly and
fairly invite the location of almost
within reason in the manu-
featuring line.
1T is regretable that up to with
in recent years it has been necessary
to export to outside manufacturing
points, the immense production OIL
raw materials developed in Idaho, an
while it may now be truly said that
a slight beginning has been made inl
keeping the added manufacturers I
profits at home, the state is still
letting sip away, each year, millions
of wealth that rightfully belongs tOI
Idaho to share with the manufactur-
er who has the foresight to realize|
the great riches of the state and to|
take advantage of them.
while one may, within the lin
its of this brief article, only gener-ll
alize on the variety of Inducements
offered the Investigating manufactur
er to encourage location in Idaho, it'll
may not be out of place in passing to
that this safe possesses i'm
mense gypsum deposits for the manu-
iacture of stucco and plaster pro-
ducts; great phosphate beds conven-
iently located for rail transportation
clay and sand areas of the very best
quality for the making of brick. tile
and related products; cement and
lime deposits, in addition to agricul-
tural, horticultural, timbering, dairy |
ing, cattle and Sheep raising indus
cries, which open an unlimited field
for canning and evaporating plants,
flour mills, starch factories, broom
factories, cereal food plants, picking
plants, woolen mills, foundries, chees
and butter-making plants, meat pack
ing and canning plants. Add to these
many smaller industries, and you
have we'll run the gamut of manu-
factures, and Idaho is undeniably de-
stined to rank among the headline
manufacturing states when all re-
sources have been fully developed.
Imagine a state with an annual
wool production Of approximately 23,-
DOO, 900 pounds, exporting every pound
Of wool and importing every manu-
factured article derived therefrom.
Imagine a state with vast sand,
lime and clay deposits importing
brick and kindred products.
Imagine state with an annual
Dat production of 15,000,000 bushels,
and similarly heavy production of
wheat and other grains, and not
solitary cereal manufacturing plant.
Imagine a state with millions of
wealth in fruits, and only six COM
nercial canning and fruit preserving
plants.
Imagine a state with an annual
production of 2SO,O00,OOO bushels of
potatoes and not q single potato
starch factory established.
These are only few of the many
,eculiarities met with in considering
merely the potentialities of Idaho.
After one has weighed these facts,
back Of them all, the mighty
snake river bisecting the state from
is eastern to its western boundary,
With it's many rich tributaries, and