Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-04-09
AGENTS ARNEY AND JORDAN OF
NORTHERN PACIFIC TALK AT
WEEKLY LUNCHEON,
old. OFFICERS REELECTED
President Anderson and Secretary Van
Deventer Decline Honor but Friends
Insist on Second Term.

The Commercial club luncheon yes
terday brought out large attendance,
over 30 being present. The annual cleo.
tion of officers was scheduled for this
meeting but on account Of there being
a number of guests present whom the
club desired to hear, only the president
and secretary were selected and this
was done with alacrity, it being the
unanimous opinion of the members that
President Anderson and Secretary Van
Deventer have SO we'll performed the
respective duties of their office that
they were entitled to another term,
notwithstanding the pleas of these
gentlemen that there were others who
could better serve. The remaining Of.
ficers will be elected at the meeting
next week.
At the conclusion of the election, that
royal good fellow, c. f. Arney, was
called upon to make few remarks.
Mr. Arney has host of Grangeville
friends and nowhere in Idaho is there
warmer feeling for this fine Idahoan
whom the N. p. Co. has taken from us
and placed at the head of its western
immigration department. Among other
things Mr.. Arney said:
Advises Diversified Farming.
81 believe the Camas prairie coun-
try could be aided materially in an
immigration way, if the real conditions
could be placed before the people of the
east and middle west, because your
land values here are not out of pro-
portion to their earning capacity
Land is not "high'' unless the value
placed on it exceeds reasonable in
terest which it will earn. $500 an
acre land is just as cheap as 800 an
acre land, if each, at the same cost,
will yield the same percent of revenue,
providing transportations and market
conditions are equal. ye
"T believe that the Camas prairie
country is a fertile field for the promo
tion and adoption of more diversified
farming, and l say this in the face of
the fact that you are about as far ad-
vanced in the hog and cattle industry
as any section in my territory-Idaho,
Washington and Oregon.
"What you need to attract additional
Immigration is to put the plain, clean
cut, unadulterated facts before the peo-
pie who are restless, as is the case with
the men in the general west where I did
immigration work last month, l. e.:
Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa.
Wants Papers Circulated.
.'There are very many ways of reach.
ing these people. The best way is by
personal contact. Probably the next
best plan is the sending of copies Of
your weekly papers to the friends and
acquaintance of those who have re.
Gently moved into your country from
the east and middle western states,
and again these people might be reached
through correspondence, carried on by
the men, women and school children of
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communities in the agricultural areas
of Idaho county.
owe regard personal contact as the
best plan now acquiring settlers, and to
this end we are doing all we can. More
than a dozen men of our immigration
department are working between Den
Yer and New York, and Duluth and
New Orleans with prospective immi-
grants, in an endeavor to attract them
to the territory along the line of the
Northern Pacific, including Idaho.
"What we need most is cooperation
of the same kind Of work on the part
of commercial bodies to deal with the
community distinctly where we must
deal generally. In the selection OF men
to 90 east and speak for your COM
munity great care must be preserved,
for overdrawn statements and false re-
presentation will react with damaging
results.
"Generally speaking, the nearby and
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