The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-04-10
FUTURE OF This
VALLEY EXPLAINED
AT the Luncheon of the Club of Com
merce, Idaho Falls, Mr.. Earl Ex-
planned the Advantages and Pro-
phesied as to the Development Of
the Upper Snake River Valley.

Mr.. President and members of the
Club of Commerce:
| have the privilege of addressing
you by special invitation. In this
shall be as brief as possible, but the
subject allotted to me is such that
cannot do it justice only, perhaps, by
taking your already we'll occupied
time.
But perhaps you may listen to me
for a few minutes on the subject:
What we have coming to us, and
what shall we do with it?" 1t is
with much humility that I venture to
thus address, you. might quote an
illustrious statesman and say
Through all time, from the dawn of
history, men have swarmed to new
found homes in distant lands" The
Tyrians, skirting northern Africa,
stopped at Carthage, Carthageians
dotted Spain, and even to the distant
coasts of Britain and Ireland. Greeks
gemmed Italy and Sicily with their
immigrants. Rome carried many
colonies with her conquering eagles.
Saxons, Danes and Normans miS gled
with the original Britains, and in
more modern times, Venice, Genoa,
Portugal, Spain, France and England
all sent forth emigrants to people
foreign shores.
The time has now certainly arrived
when we should see to it that we are
inspired by new inspiration. A few
conscientious men, we'll meaning in
every particular, have silently sat still
and hoped for the best to come to this
very splendidly situated town. They
have silently watch ed the progress of
the same, and some have, to their best
ability, encouraged every movement
which had tendency toward making
for it's good, and I trust that we shall,
in the future, all labor under an in
spiration which will lead us on to a
very greater Idaho Falls and tributary
country.
Our forefathers came across the sea
and first settled our Atlantic shores.
1t took but short time before they
| hniF tnI n hn tipo
sun, making their way inland and to-
ward the middle west. You can all
realize how our eastern hemisphere
became so thickly inhabited. The
entire migration of a hungry world
has for centuries been dumped upon
our eastern coast, finally filling up
what we term the middle west, and it
is really but little more than fifty
years since these home finders paid
any attention toward seeking the
benefits of a home in the land in
which we now live.
But what of the immediate future?
We fully expect to receive the golden
blessings from the very immigration
which will result from the opening
of the Panama canal. 1t is very
conservatively estimated that no less
than 100000 of people will pass
through this waterway within the
first five years of it's opening. These
people will be landed upon our west
ern coast-exactly opposite to what
has occurred in the past, and almost
at our very doors. From there they
will make their way inward, or to the
states of California, Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and Utah.
Are we ready to care for these
many thousands of people who are
surely about to settle among us?
Upon the citizenship of Idaho de-
wolves the task of caring for these
hordes of people who are about to
come to us. Our undeveloped acres
dlO ohplC W lndh0 5OOu uOIlSS lUl
many thousands. The opening of the
canal means to us that we must pre-.
pare ourselves to receive, and make
preparations for the unparalleled ad-
yantages the canal will afford us in
the upbuilding of our community
This canal brings us within easy
reach of the worlds markets, and
our source of new citizenship is be.
yond our comprehension. We are
about to fully realize that our only
markets lie not only to the east, but
that another and more profitable one
lies to the west, and we are now about
to be called upon to feed these hung
ry hordes. Are we prepared to re-
ceive them, and show them the great
est advantages we have to offer fol
a prosperous livelihood, which they
are all seeking?
It is, then our duty to get ready
and make every preparation to re-
ceive these people and populate oul
fertile valley with hundred thou
sand new homes. Most of these new
corners will be made up Of skilled
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