The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-01-02
THE OLD AND THE NEW YEAR.

The New West Trade comments on
the passing 81 the milestone from a
purely business point of view. as fol-
lows
The year 1912 is drawing to close
and the new year of 1913 will soon be
here for us to bid II welcome. We
welcome the new year, not because the
old one has been unkind to us, but be-
cause 1t marks a period in business
life from which reckonings are made
Of past success or failure. and plans
and forecasts are made for the future
Our past experiences should have add
ed to our storehouse of knowledge. es-
pecially along the line of our chosen
business or profession, which should
enable us to steer clear OF obstacles
that have proved hndrance 10 the
successful elimination of the plans and
forecasts we made one year ago.
The conditions for prosperous and
successful year of business are more
propitious at this time than they were
one years ago. We have passed through
national campaign, remarkable in
this that business conditions were
such that there was no fear of any
panic, nor even the curtailment Of any
great business enterprise. Mills and
factories were employed on orders
booked far ahead of the election and
well into the new year that is soon to
arrive. The railways are making ex-
tensive additions to their equipment.
and while no great extensions in mile
age are being made into new territory
the double tracking of old lines, the
erection of additional terminal facili-
ties, and the traffic agreements where
by transcontinental freight may be
moved with greater facility and less
expense to the common carrier has
given an added impetus in commercial
transactions.
The prospect of opening the Panama {
canal to traffic in 1913, nearly two
years in advance of the proposed COM
pletion of this wonderful asset in the
worlds commerce. has given added
impulse to preparations for it's use
and to railroad competition Herewith.
The steamship lines, too, have be-
gun preparations for caring for the in
crease in business that will come with
the opening of the canal. The immi-
grafton problem will undoubtedly be /
revolutionized as immi-
grants from Europe will be landed d. q
rect on the Pacific coast whenever their
destination Is this coast or contiguous
territory and 1t is not probable that r
this will lessen to any great extent the
to the Atlantic ports but II
IN increase in the settlement Of the
Pacific coast states will only augment i
he influx of Europeans to the Ameri-
an continent.
These new additions to our present n
population must have food and cloth
ng and the necessities and comforts is
# life and these must be provided by
he farms, the factories, the mills and
he merchants of this country They q
will engage in the labor and activities n
t American life and exchange the "
roducts Of that labor and activity for
he necessities and comforts that they
esire and thus add to the volume of M
usiness In
Another element that has grown 'e
teadily for the past quarter of CEN
Try is the standard of living. With
lie increase of wealth has come an in
ease IN desires. The inventive gem
is OF man has provided new necessi-
es and new comforts that IS years
20 were unknown and these enter, in TIL
great measure, into the high cost of va
fing, or as The Trade has cditorially 10
upon it.; the cost Of high we
ing. ~
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The tendency of legislative bodies to
act blue sky laws, honest adver, isinp Z
WIS, good roads laws and various 10
her laws the object of which is to mn,
RIB get rich quick schemes, and adj do,
nee the interests of legitimate bust. poi
SIS Is good omen and The Trade all
II Join with al! business interests in PEI
welcome to the new year 1913.
we are hardly treasured by claims and