Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-06-18
BOOSTING FOR SOUTHERN IDAHO

DOOO llNG run oOO y EhN iDA7O
Paul, Idaho, June Last night the
directors Of the Snake River Valley
Community Club held their first meet
ing at Paul, and after the election of
officers for the ensuing year proceeded
to prepare plans for the big boosting
campaign which is undertaken for the
purpose Of advertising the Snake
River Valley. The proposal made to
the officers by Mr.. C. j. Blanchard, of
the Department of Interior at Wash
ngton that the motion pictures of the
valley be made by his department
which will sell the same to the club at
cost was adopted. Several hundred
copies of the films will be made from
the original which will show scenes of
the valley on both sides of the river
from above Ashton on the northeast
and to below Bull on the Southwest
the pictures are to include the leading
business thorofares and residential
sections of all the cities and towns in
the valley and their public buildings
and schools. Beautiful scenic films
Will also be made of the Snake river
and its gigantic dams, Zone of them
being the highest in the world). i'm
mense storage reservoirs, enhancing
falls and towering palisades.
Only fraction of the cultivable area !
of the valley is now under cultivation
and millions of acre feet are running
to waste every day. The valley is big
enough and rich enough in natural re-
sources to accommodate several million
people. Italy with an area about the
same as Idaho's and with no better soil
and less natural resources, supports
about forty-one million people. In the
past no efforts have been made to adj
vertise the wonderful opportunities
waiting settlers and industries in the
valley 1t is for this purpose that the
'iuD odopted a plan so broad and ex-
ensiVe IN its scope that its message
vii be carried into every state city
nd hamlet of the United States. If is
he opinion of the members of the club {
nat when people are made acquainted
'lth the superior and unexcelled or
ortunities in the Snake River Valley L
nat there will be a greater flow of S
sttlers into southern Idaho than into o
ny other state of the United States. s
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the Department of nerior. through u
he department over which Mr.. C T
lanchard is head, will show a numbar II
motion pictures films in nearly all n
the states in the United States and II
Ill provide men to deliver lectures L
pom the valley at these showings of Il
ctures. Further, the department will "
'ovide the club with capable lecturers F
no VIII lecture upon the valley when A
'er the club desires such lectures al
ring the showings of these pictures st
'verale other public bureaus bao
gnified their willingness to also pr
axe public showings of these pictures to
rom present indications it appears
at the clubs pictures, will be shown
It only all over America but in nearly
cry country in the world.
PROVISION was made during the meet
to establish an office in the CITY OF
'icago, and. if conditions demand II !
ices will be established elswhere IN da,
country. The Chicago office viii Co
the principal eastern office ONT Of pla
lich the campaign will be conducted Z
e very highest type of men are 70 no Pri
ployed by the club 1t is the idea Co
the Officers to get in personal touch Lal
IN people who are likely or are avail and
e Tor settlers in the valley ana IL c
way be able. in measure 70 in
'ose its new citizens. Under the old Am
eme of advertising the only pur. EN-.
e in mind was to bring in the III
pie hut under the new management Sci,
the Snake River Club it is planned Bes
discourage unsuitable persons from eacl
ling in to Idaho, and to secure the peri
y best type of settlers ress
he following towns are represented wor
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