The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-05-06
Big IMMIGRATION
NOW ANTICIPATED
C. E. ARNEY, N. p. INDUSTRIAL
AGENT, SAYS MANY PEOPLE
COMING NEXT YEAR.
Declares That People Must Prepare to
Receive Prospective Settlers on
Reasonable Basis.

81 returned six weeks ago from my
usual mid-winter immigration trip to
the central west and found immigration
matters generally better than they
were a year previous" said c. e. Ar
ney, western immigration and indus
trial agent of the Northern Pacific, who
was in Moscow yesterday. 'The prin-
cipal drawback to more immigration
to the Pacific northwest now, as a
year ago, lies in the fact that the fell
low who wants to come cannot dis
pose of what he has, although this con-
dition was better this year in Iowa,
Missouri and Nebraska than it was the
year previous. in Kansas and Oklaho-
ma.
Nearby states to the north and east
of Iowa, for instance, where there was
last year, as for many years previous,
constant stream of immigration to
other states, are outclassing up in the
character of work they are doing to
..
which is incumbent upon the people
of the Pacific northwest to do, if we
are to get our share of this tide of
i. e., go and labor person
ally with the prospective immigrant
Think Land Values High.
81 am no exception to the rule, for
all our immigration men, 1aboring
through the middle western and east
ern states are constantly approached |
BY the suggestion that lands in the |
Pacific northwest states are too high.
Ny judgment is that this is true in
spots but that the charge generally,
o the lands of the states of the north
vest is unfair. I am equally certain
hat if we are to meet the charge
quickly and completely we must do so
" contact. This charge indicting the
Ugh land values in the northwest can
lot be answered by highly colored lit
rature, fancy bound booklets or ex-
ensive maps. 1t has got to be made
y preachers of the gospel of the char
cter of our soil, climatic, social, edu-
ational and civic conditions general
Y, all of which are taken into account
y the intended immigrant.
Familiar With Land Value.
II was raised in Iowa and am famil-
II with the soil of the Hawkeye state.
believe that Palouse and Yakima
alley lands, the former served by rain
III and the latter irrigated, are fully
5 capable of demanding prices from
L50 to 5000 per acre as are the lands
Iowa. Palouse and Potlatch valley
nds are selling today at from $50 to Il
100 per acre and Yakima lands at =
inns slightly above these figures y
nroguh diversified farming, a Palouse X
ncher last year, cleared eight thou
nd dollars on hundred acre farm. L
trough diversified farming in 1913,
900 acres under the Sunnyside rec M
plOJcCl Ulduc SIOSS average
eld last year of $61 per acre. c.
Shows Handsome Return.
1--WE can figure literally for expenses
reduce this to a net basis and yet b
We handsome return for the price 81
ked for land in these two great ell
id
Similar deductions can be drawn as II
the cleared areas of land in the Pu-
Sound country, southwest Wash CT
ston, Walla Walla, all over northern sh
Tho and other sections of the Pacific
states.
If the people of these states are
ng to cope with commercial club
| real estate board endeavor to set
up the states of Idaho, Washington w
Oregon, on a percentage equal to -
er states and on basis commensur- W.
with the capabilities of our land 'i'
pay a fair return on the invest pa
- - We