Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-02-26
Clearwater County Has Vast
Undeveloped Resources

500 per acre. In the 80s, when our
father predicted 500 land in the
Palouse country people said he was
talking through his hat" Was he?
What About OrofinOs
Orofino is the county seat Of Clear
water county. Today it is the bust
ness metropolis of the county. But
has Orofino future? Has Orofino
resources upon which to build thriv-
ing city, say of 5000 inhabitants?
Here are some of the industries
that Orofino will have, and this state
ment is based on known facts. Clear
water county will soon become a
great livestock section. We have /
vast areas of cheap summer range and |
our fertile valleys with mammoth |
crops of corn will afford the necessary
cheap winter feed. Therefore it is
certain we can establish and build up
here large meat packing plant. |
And We will not need go out of the
county for market The timber in
dustry will take care of that and
more.
Our Cement Factory.
We have one of the greatest cement
deposits in the world. The near
future will see developed within the
city limits of Orofno a plant giving
steady employment to 200 men, a
thing of itself of vast Importance,
and this industry can never be taken
from Orotino. Nature put it here.
The plans of the Orofino plant call
for an output Of 5000 barrels daily.
Figure the railroad tonnage. The
company will go ahead when business
settles down and the country once
more becomes normal. That the
development of this industry was de-
layed, and work stopped, owing to the
knocking of the Orofino Tribune and
the general business depression and
tight money market, does not mean
that the Orofino cement factory will
not be built and Orofno have the
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have the raw material, and the de-
mand for cement will soon make the
development of our valuable cement
deposit necessity. 1t will be
pushed to early completion.
Other Resources.
These are some of the big things
Orofino and Clearwater county may
depend on for business, but we have
others. We can develope a large
poultry business. We can build up a
canning factory, fruit drier, a
creamery, and score of other in
dustries, each small, but in the aggre-
gate of considerable Importance. We
: should growand ship out large tonnage
of early vegetables; we should skip
; out thousands of dollars worth Of wal
nuts; we should grow and ship thous-
, ands of dollars worth of tomatoes,
, melons and Lambert cherries. We
should grow and export large quanti-
ties of superior apples. We should
r develope a large vinegar factory, such
: as Moscow now has, and every acre Of
: our choice river valley land should be
f devoted to the production of valuable
n products for canneries, creameries, OF
: meat packing plants.
r Our bench lands, too steep to farm
: should be planted to fruit trees, t,
a berries, and to crops profitable TO
: canneries.
This will not all come in day o
/ a year. 1t will come in five, ten, o
d twenty years. Not all at once, bu
y one after another, as the countr
developes, as population increases, a
+ markets open up and demand justifies
will these things come, and one da
Clearwater county will be one of tn
greatest and best and busiest cou1
;. ties in the state. People will the
= wake up and wonder why they lacke
i faith and the foresight to see that an
n county possessing great natural re
. sources is destined to enjoy the fruit
- of the developed resource later i
q life. And it may not be so long i
= coming, at that.