Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-05

The junket committee Is working on
two days trip for early next spring
and it is going to be the biggest ana
best ever undertaken In this state.
Something new is being offered the
members in the way of a two page
bulletin. This gives an itemized state
ment of what the club is doing. tells OF
new work planned and OF coming con-
ventions Boise will entertain. II you
are not on the mailing list or have
friend that you think would like to 1
have one notify the secretary.
The automobile men are talking very /
seriously Of having an automoblie
show. There is no reason why we
| should not have such show and .
right now is the time to organize an
automobile club to see that the roads
are properly marked and to furnish the :
proper pamphlets for distribution to /
automobile tourists. Boise has been |
asleep in this line. Let's wake up.
| We are to entertain the state con- |
| vention of county commissioners in
December and the entertainment com
mittee is planning warm welcome to
these men of our state.
The house committee is making
II some changes in the billiard room and
dining room and new rules will be in
| force at an early date. The rooms will
| be re-decorated. Come up to the noon
| day luncheons and help us make
| things pleasant for the strangers who
| come to our city.
The industrial department of the
Union Pacific has asked for more
booklets and 500 were sent last week
I The office force has sent out within the
last month over 5000 of these booklets
besides hundreds of personal letters.
At every turn the successful bust
+, ness men whether he operates large
or small concern is saying business is
. good. Ask the boys at the freight
house if this isn't true. From the small
towns surrounding Boise the same eN-
preston is heard and when the gov
, eminent placed Idaho second in the
, western division for amount of in
creased business we believe it is about
time for the pessmists to give up and
! die.
| The sales day committee is working
faithfully and the mayor and city
, council are lending q willing hand to
make it reality. The committee may
{ decide to run an automobile excursion
= to one of the nearby towns in order
g that large number of our business
v men may see what our neighbors are
q doing to bring about good feeling
4 among the farmers and incidentally in
( crease business and If such a plan is
$ carried out we urge you to go.
Does organization pay? Well, Ask
i the other cities that tried to land the
$ Cattle and Horse Growers convention
t just recently held at Pocatello. When
it came to the selection of the next
. meeting place Boise was selected for
0 next year and the year after and from
now on this convention will be held in
Boise every legislative year or at least
I as long as we welcome it. The Com
mercial club sent special representa-
tives there, kilograms were sent by "A
large number of our business men, and
long before the convention convened
the Commercial club sent out personal
letters setting forth why Boise should
be selected as their next meeting
place. Are these conventions just a
benefit to the members of the Boise
II Commercial club? Mr.. Non members
are these conventions hurting your
II business? You are invited to join and
Il help make this organization stronger.
II The traffic department is doing some
effective work and in next weeks issue
we will cite some work they are doing
| that is a benefit to the whole south
west.
II In a good many cases too many .!
our citizens are looking on the darG
side without investigating conditions
as they really are. The secretary re-
Gently spent two days interviewing
scores of business men of all classes
also farmers and has yet to find one
who did not admit that business is
good. The following is from II. J. Nc
Cir which gives us a better idea OF
conditions as they really exist;
~ recently made a trip through tho
northern part of Idaho. eastern Wash
ington and Oregon, stopping at a num-
Der of towns and driving through tho
country, largely for a comparison OF
conditions there and in the Boise val
ley. Times are prosperous in northern
Idaho and Washington, chiefly due to
the high prices paid for wheat and tc
the output from the mines, but when il
comes to a comparison of the re-
sources, it is difficult to arrive at q
fair conclusion because of the differ
ent kind of resources and there is
really no competition between north.
ern and southern Idaho. In the north
they are not in the formation stage OF
development as we are. Their farms
are practically all under cultivation
and the nature of their farming oper-
= ations require a very much larger
= amount of land for a family to live or
than here in the south. Here with our
irrigated land, we can produce sc
much more to the acre and more diver