Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-03-06
Urges United Effort
To Build Up Country

The major portion of the eve
ming at the Tuesday meeting Of the
Kootenai Valley Commercial club
was taken up with a very interest
ing address by A. V. Hemming of
Spokane, an active member of the
Inland Empire Development league.
Mr.. Hemming brought the good news
that according to all information Sc
cured by the Spokane organization
and by the railroads, this section
was about due for another large
influx of settlers. He stated that
for the last few years there had
been a Montana craze but that Mon
tana was about filled up and now
the land hungry one-of which there
are many-must come further west.
The outstanding feature of his adj
dress was urging the need of sys-
tematic, cooperative efforts in get
ting the right class of settlers onto
our cut-over lands. This should be
accomplished, he said, by placing a
reasonable price on the raw land and
then carrying on an active publicity
campaign. In this regard he en-
phatically urged the great necessity
corning the land in which the COM
munity was attempting to interest
settlers. After the settler had been
secured then let there be united and
undiminishing effort to help him
make a success of his venture. He
strongly urged cooperative effort in
selling the land and securing the
settler.
Speaking from what he said had
been their own experience in the
Spokane organization, Mr.. Hemming
advised the local club to center and
confine their efforts to the zone big
idea" He said it was useless for
a club to attempt to accomplish too
much and too many things as there
by failure almost invariably resulted;
rather ought the club to center every
effort on accomplishing the one
thing of greatest Importance at the
present time, and the speaker be-
lieved that to be the development
of the agricultural resources of the
section through securing more set
tiers. 1t was an address that every
man in Bonners Ferry should have
, heard.
o. S. Davis of the mining COM
mittee read a report to the effect
that the Boundary county exhibit at
the recent Northwest Mining con-
gress at Spokane had attracted much
attention and H. w. Kirchoff, the
local representative at the congress,
stated he believed the exhibit would
result in Investigations being made
by prominent mining men into the
mineral resources of the county.
Henry Driscoll in brief remarks
4 urged the real need of cleaning up
3 the untidy appearance of the town
and called the attention of the club
a to several matters that needed i'm
e provement in this regard. The La
= dies Civic club will undoubtedly re-
ceive the active assistance of the
d commercial club when they take up
g this work later in the spring.
e The manufacturing committee re-
d ported that J. S. Clark had written,
r briefly stating that he was confident
k he might enlist eastern capital in
e establishing a paper mill hereabouts.
: The committee also stated the es-
y tablishment of a cannery in the val
e ley might be possible and profitable
s and the committee was instructed to
e take up the matter with the farm
It ers' union and cooperate with them
1t if the undertaking was deemed adj
visable
e f. A. Shultis of the agricultural
a committee had taken up correspond
r, ence with a number of seed houses
e in regard to the possibility of Sc
? curing contracts for growing SEED
> peas here. They stated they haC
Y secured all needed contracts for the
l. present year, but might take up the
/ matter with local growers later.
A few other matters were discuss
ed but no progress reported.