Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-07-08
MOUNTAIN HOME
IS DOING NICELY
Every Line Of Business
in Healthy Condition
indication are That the Community
is on Solid Foundation and all
Lines are Flourishing

: In the first issue of the Republican
? in March, this year, the editor eX.
pressed the opinion that Mountain
Home was coming into its own. II
) was after going over the condition
5 OF the community carefully that that
thought was expressed, and now,
after four months, evidences are mul-
tiplying that seem to bear out Its
truth and accuracy.
1t now seems apparent that Noun
tain Home, the town that is said to
have been going down for several
years, struck bedrock some little time
ago, and Notwithstanding that we
suffered one OF the worst frosts ever
known in this section which resulted
in killing practically all Of the fruit
crop, it is beginning TO rear itself
again on solder, more permanent
foundation than ever could have been
done at any time In the past. All
this community needs is for its own
people to make little more noise
about their town and country, at least
enough to make themselves think il
is alright 1t is alright and We owe
Ii to ourselves, to our neighbors and
to the community al large to con
vince ourselves Of this fact a the
earliest possible moment.
The Republican makes the asser
ton at this time that there is moi
another county in Idaho that has col
ected up on its 1915 tax closer than
! has Gilmore county. And here are
the figures to back that statement.
The total amount due on the second
lnstallment was $54 $50. 10 and of this
$54 039.O7 was paid, leaving a bah
ance of only $5l6.0S.
Another statement that the Repub-
| lican is willing to stand on is that
there is not another bank, in town
anywhere near the size of Mountain
Home, that does the volume of bust
ness in dollars and cents that the
First National of this place does
Not one made as good a showing as
the First National makes In It's state.
ment of June 80, which shows de-
posts of $555 ,6O936. If that state
ment had been made July 5th it
would have shown the deposits to be
$50, 600 or $4,000 higher than that
fiure In one day last week the de
posits ran up to something above
$l80,O00.
These facts must be taken as an
evidence OF the general prosperous
condition of the country. They are
indisputable; there is no way OF get
ting around them.
Another thing the Republican will
give as its belief, without having any |
authentic information to bear out
stat ement, is that every line of busi-
ness represented in Mountain Home
is enjoying just as much prosperity
as are similar lines in any other town
in this section Of the state And it
is a certainty that our business pep-
pie are putting forth less effort to
get business than are those of other
communities
In building Mountain Home is farlng
as we'll as any of our neighboring
towns and bette than most of them.
The only thing wrong with Noun
tain Home is that We have got our
selves into the habit of listening to
the noise that otfer towns are maxi
ing, and we forget to say anything
for our own town and our own cOun-
try; we have got too many people
who spend more time telling about
the hardships they have had to en-
dure than they do in trying 10 better
their condition, and we have too
many people who cannot say a good
word for the town or the country
without clouding it with a tale of woe,
about things that have happened 10
the past.
Let s try making a little noise our ,
selves lust to see how it will sound.
EnR c0MMIeQIONE