The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-12-03
SEES GREAT YEAR
FOR IMMIGRATION
CHARLES E. ARNEY, WESTERN I'M.
MIGRATION AGENT, HAS OPTIM-
ISTIC VIEWS
Thousands Coming to the Northwest
Next Year and Many Will Remain to
Aid in Development

Seattle Times: Declaring that the
the greatest opportunity in her history
to exploit her resources, possibilities
of development and climatic advant-
ages, Charles E. Arney, western i'm
migration and industrial agent Of the
Northern Pacific railroad, who is in Sc
attic from Spokane, has outlined a
plan of cooperation advertising which
he believes will be of immense assist
ance in the building up of the state
Arney predicts that the coming year
will bring thousands of people to the
Pacific coast and will be record
breaker in travel to the northwest. In
order that the opportunities of the
state may be effectively presented to
travellers and interest in Washington
aroused among eastern visitors, Arney
solicits the cooperation of commercial
organizations and individuals in a cam
paign of exploitation which his de-
partment expects to wage.
In speaking of the expected oppor-
tunity and his plan for meeting it,
Arney said at The New Washington:
"The report of Washington's bureau
of statistics and immigration pro-
claims bona fide opportunities for. 3S7
manufacturing plants relating chiefly
to fruit, lumber and dairying. 1t like
wise invites attention to 716 legiti-
mate business openings. 1t claims to
lead all other states in lumber with a
total output annually of 1000, 100000
fleet and with fruit products totaling
l$15 100000 annually. These facts af-
ford adequate action on the part of
newspapers, commercial club endeayor
land immigration departments includ-
ing railways.
1.-The coming year is to go down in
history as record breaker in travel
to the Pacific coast. Travel to the
Panama Pacific exposition will be
augmented materially by the Euro
pean war Many hundreds Of former
globe chasers in foreign countries will
not only content themselves with trav-
ell in our country, but many such will
invest in the west when op
portunities here fall under their OBJ
servation.
There is no immigration work so
eminently satisfactory to those en-
il, f0 ind n
have the inclination and money to in
vest, to look at the country to which
they are trying to induce settlement
If the Northern Pacific can once in
duce an intended settler to go out over
the line and personally study the
country we know he is ours for keeps. |
If seeing is believing we should all |
Join hands in grand organized effort |
to induce as many as possible to come
md see.
Commercial Clubs Active
"There are fifty organized CONNER
,ial clubs along the main line and
branches of the Northern Pacific in
L
100 members EACH If these 5000 COM
nercial club members would write
postal card each week to some east
,rn acquaintance for the next three :.
months, 10000 people who have ac- I,
[uaintances in this state would know
hey were welcome to come this way ,
nd be our guests If each member of
he immediate family of this CONNER
ial club army would write such a
ard of invitation, the number of in
tied would increase to 240,000
eff the Great Northern, the Mil
yaukee and the Oregon-W Washington
arritory commercial club members c
nd their families in Washington
vould join the campaign, we can null I
ply the figures by three, whereby I
early three-quarters of a million :
earty, wholesome, first-hand, personal t
lvitations will go out to many who I
ill visit the coast next summer and Y
, a class of people which Washington
eeds to open the industries enumer-
ted in the report of the state depart
tent and to extend our good begin
ing at more diversified and intensive
lrming. d
"Place your eastern friends rela- G
YES and acquaintances on the mailing j.
st of your local paper. 1t will preach I
sermon for you about your country, l(
lilly, semi-weekly or weekly, for it t.
,vers all phases of every question a
ermane to the existence of the in ii
nding settler. See to it that the N
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