The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-01-07
Northwest May Soon Look
for Permanent Prosperity
BY j. w. Kahle. President Crescent Manu-
featuring Company. Seattle.

BY j. W. Kahle. President Crescent Manu-
featuring Company. Seattle.
IT WOULD be difficult to conceive
or suggest conditions more favor
. able to an immediate and perm
anent prosperity than those now ex-
listing in the Pacific Northwestern
States.
To our wonderfully diversified
natural resources we now have
added, it is believed, a stable
financial system that will elm
mate the fear of recurrent money
s~tringencies as well as the al
ternating periods of initiation and
reckless speculation. 1t is hoped that
the new system will prove to be an
effective ba~lance-wheel, resulting in
a more evenly distributed prosperity,
and the consequent development of
the richest of our resources, agricul-
ture, stock-raising, dairying, horticul-
ture and allied industries.
Attention has been too long CEN
tered on the development of our
cities, to mining, numbering and kin
bred quick profit-making industries
to the neglect of more conservative.
but in the end the more essential and
safer line of business, namely, the
production from the soil of the actual
necessities of life.
The greatness of the Pacific North
west is to be founded upon these pri-
mary resources, to which manufac-
turing, commerce, mining and lum-
bering are to be contributory but
subordinate factors.
The Individual Opportunity.
The opportunity seems open to
every farmer, ranch man, stock
grower and orchardist, to make his
individual business q paying one By
increasing the quantity and quality
of his crop, by intelligent, careful
grading of his output, and the mar
keting of every pound possible OF
by-product, as we'll as principal crop,
the volume of food products imported
by the Northwestern States car be
vastly decreased and the money paid
therefor will 60 to increasing the
products of III W producers.
The success Of each individual unit
in our agricultural communities Is
essential to the prosperity of the
Northwest as a whole, so that pros
perity becomes a matter of individual
effort to turn to immediate profit the
opportunities afforded by existing
conditions.
In the movement to build up the
farming business, as a business, the
farmer should not lose sight Of the
importance Of the local merchant as
a factor in the farmers success. In.
stead of cooperation among the pro-
ducers for the purpose of eliminating
the local merchant, the cooperation
ought to be between the merchant
and farmer in a concerted effort tt
rehabilitate the local trading center
which in turn creates and promote!
the local social center.
Cooperation.
Cooperation with the local mer
chant in the assembling and shipmen'
to larger markets of much produce
now going to waste would afford {
source of added income to nearl!
every farmer. The study Of improved
methods, of selecting, grading ant
packing, can as well or better be car
ried on through cooperation will
local merchants as with association
managed by organizations in tn
larger cities.
Local cooperative effort would b
coupled with the larger marketini
organizations, but the more import
ant feature is the working togethe
of local factors whose interests ar
identical with the one idea Of build
ing up the business and prosperit
of the local center, and of the farmer
With a well-arranged and intelligent
ly-directed development Of the natur
al wealth of our Northwest, pros
perity cannot miss us in 1915.