The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-03-14
BACK FROM CALIFORNIA.

AleAduu0T 1Ouulc anu "iIO AOSuA
ed. last week from a visit of few
weeks in Southern California, both
feeling rested and improved. Mr..
Younie said Yes, when we get run
down physically we can go down to
California and have very good
time until we get run down financi-
lily, and then come back to Idaho to
recuperate in that respect"
Mr.. Younie admires the pluck and
push of the Californians, and the
way they use printers ink to adverti--
Sc everything they have to sell or
TO offer in the way of service. He
says the orange aud lemon crops
were damaged much more by the
December freeze than was at first
reported, and that the buds were
frozen so there will be no lemons to
gather year from the time the
freeze came. 1t has left the citrus
fruit growers in bad financial
straits but they are so busy extract
ing money from the pockets of the
tourists they do not seem to mind
their losses much.
Mr.. Younie thinks we are ap-
preaching a good wholesome boom at
Blackfoot and through Idaho gen.
orally, and says that if we boosted
our resources as the Californians do
we should all be wearing diamonds
and silk slippers. He said that he
and two Iowa friends were doing the
sunny south q years ago and found
most beautiful winter resort in
southern Mississippi that seemed to
have been overlooked and needed
developing. 1t was finer than any
place in California for spending the
winter, and they put in $500 apiece
to purchase the site of the future re-
sort for people from the north.
They held the property for 26 years
and by stroke of good luck they
got their $500 back but no returns
in the way of interest or return of
their tax money they had paid out.
! He SAYS land in that community Is
not worth any more now than it was
when Columbus discovered America
and all because the people are asleep
and do not make any use of what
they have nor get anybody else there
to enjoy it. A banker would not.
loan money on real estate in such
places because If he did he would
soon own the whole country and
would have no income. The banks,
he learned, would loan money on
fish in the gulf, or on lumber in the
forests, where good men would con-
tract to go out and catch or cut the
security, yet they would throw up
their hands in horror if man want
ed to borrow money on land.
Down in Texas the bankers would
loan lots of money on cattle on the
range, and when he mentioned this
to New York banker he looked in
| jured and said he would just as
leave take mortgage on school of
fish off the banks of New Foundland.
Blackfoot bankers would treat any
of these propositions as joke ex-
cept farm lands and that would be
considered the best security on earth.
Mr.. Younie said he met Leonard
Jones and wife, formerly of Black
foot, who are now living in Los An
geles. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Jones married Miss Shirley in
Blackfoot in 1906 or 1906, and left
here in the latter year. They went
to Salt Lake City where Mrs. Jones
was i'll for nearly year and for nine
months of the time Mr.. Jones nur-
sed her and did not have any time
tn earn any money. They went to
San Francisco and he worked at his
trade for time and then took con-
contracts. Business was good, and he
secured the services of L. ]. Post,
another Blackfoot man who worked
for him for almost year at 50 a
day. Notwithstanding the high wag-
es Mr.. Post could not or did not
save anything and finally returned to
Coos Bay. Mr.. Jones studied arch
itecture and is now designing large
buildings. When Mr.. YOunie discov-
cred him he was working on plans
for ten story hotel, had an office
in the heart of the city and clients
coming and going as II he were an
important man. Mr.. Younie called
on them at their home and found
Mrs. Jones most charming hostess,
and everything indicated that the
world was dealing generously with
them.