Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-11-26
"Wake Up, Northwest, Wake Up

wake Up, Northwest, Wake Up.
The above is the caption of an ar
ticle appearing in the December num-
Der of See Idaho First, together with
editorial comment by the publishers ,
of that popular magazine, which is
timely and to the point and should
set the people OF the northwest to
thinking.
Already the accusation is being
made that Seattle is complaining be-
cause the management of the San
Francisco exposition does not urge
intending visitors to tour the Puget
Sound country. Sunset, San Fran
cisco magazine, and naturally on the
defensive for that city, says:
An exposition is designed primar-
lily to advertise the city in which it is
held San Francisco, San Diego and |
the state of California have raised,
by bond issues and subscriptions.
100000 for exposition purposes.
The expenditure OF this sum will
bring to the West the largest mum
| DtI VI NlSltOIS III li1 llTAOl NV
will all go to the two eXpositions, but
Seattle cannot expect the exposition
cities TO urge the visitors to go north.
In fact, the exposition cities will nat
urally endeavor TO hold the visitors
for as long a time as they can be in
duced to stay. The exposition cities
have done their full duty-and more
by creating westbound travel. If
Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Victoria,
Vancouver and Spokane want share
of the traffic il behooves them TO get
exceedingly busy, to do what San
Francisco and San Diego did: raise
money and spend it. Thanks to the
: twenty millions contributed by Cali
fornia they will never have a better
i chance to attract tourist travel at a
/ smaller cost They have the attrac-
I tions There is no more beautiful
|. summering region in all the world
t than the Pacific Northwest. but there
I has never been a consistent. syste-
!. matte and continued effort to exploit
t its splendor Now is the time TO dc
+ il, before the exposition visitors have
/ decided upon their schedules anC
+ bought their tickets.
+ There is considerable condensed
!. wisdom in the sentence: If Seattle
/ Tacoma, Portland. Victoria, Vancou
+ yer and Spokane want a share of til
! traffic it behooves them to get eN
+ candipgly busy. to do what San Fran
!. cisco and San Diego did: raise none
!. and spend it."
T Not only the cities mentioned, bu
+ every town and hamlet in the Nortl
! west should take advantage of tn
7 opportunity and arouse themselves
+ active work in behalf of their parti
T the east that when they come to II
+ exposition. to come THROUGH tn
!. great Northwest territory and 81
7 what it has to offer. San Francis
+ has contributed S2O,O0O,00O to G
+ the people started westward. Now
7 is up to the cities and towns of &
+ Northwest - Washington, Orego
+ Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Ut
I to use the "follow-up' plan a
+ see to il that these people knt
+ about this country. AS Colonel NJ
Fl berry Sellers says. There's millio
tic, in it," and we must be up and dol
on and get our full share of the busine
cal If we were going to add anythi
to the above. we would suggest Il
udy it would be a good time now
ear, every settler in this section to WI
yer to their eastern friends who eXpe
of to attend the Exposition to get tn
With tickets routed through this secti