The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-12

will show about seventy reels Of
these pictures in every state in the
Union. This advertising will cost us
nothing, but the actual production
cost of the films. The government
will also have lectures delivered on
the Snake river valley with each
showing of the pictures, and this will
be gratis to us. believe the gov
ernment's work in our behalf will be
worth hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to us.
''Our corporation, for example
will work something like this; we
will send a couple of parties COM
posed of eloquent public speakers
and conversationalist into the state
of Iowa where they will show the
pictures, and lecture on the valley,
and aftir the lecture they will get
into pei onal contact with the peo-
pie of community, and describe
to then The opportunities awaiting
them hi. In this way we will be
able, id measure, to secure the very
highest class of new neighbors.
I'VE have hundreds OF thousands
of acres of fine farm land in this
valley which should be developed
and this will require literally thou
sands of people. We have enough
water running to waste in this state
to supply several thousand farms
with an abundance of water.
"A couple of months ago, at the
suggestion of C. ]. Blanchard, the
chief statisian of he reclamation SER
vice, at Washington, D. c., we took
q set of government films into the
state of Utah for counple of weeks
and showed them there, and the re-
suits were most gratifying to us
Twelve families settled in and
around Paul as a result of that adj
vertising, and probably several times
as many settled elsewhere in the
state. You can easily imagine what
a special campaign Of education, car
ried extensively, among all the dis
contented farmers of our middle
west would mean, and | believe |
speak conservatively when | say that
such campaign would bring a reg
ular stream of settlers into the state
for the next ten years at least.
Money is tight, and credit has
been expended to the very limit, re-
lief of some kind is essential. More
people means more money The
twelve families l brought into Paul
bought $145,00000 worth of prop
erty. Multiply the hundred and
forty-five thousand a couple of thou
sand times and see what the result
would be.
1.-The Snake River Valley Com
munity club offers the most feasible
plan I can figure out to advertise
our valley. 1t is corporation, Or
ganized under the laws of the State
of Idaho, and it will operate and
function just like any business Or
ganization. Advertising is a bust
ness. The club must have the solid
cooperation of every town and city
Ill lU0 valley, IL IL Is W CdiIy Ou Ihlo
big campaign. The club represents
the concentrated efforts of all the
towns worth while in the valley, and
that is why it is going to secure big
results. Local advertising is fine
thing, of course, but that only helps
the locality advertised, and secures
only a minimum result at a maxi
mum of cost. BY such means one
town gorws at the expense of an
other That is wrong. We want all
of the towns of the valley to grow
and prosper together-what is good
for one town must be good for all.
The growth of the entire valley
means more business, bigger bust
ness, more and better railroad
facilities, more factories and n
dustries, better roads and better
schools and in fact higher state of
culture"