Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-03-18
THE COMMERCIAL
CLUB

mercial Club a Committee was ap
pointed to clean up the past obliga
tions of the Club, especially as the!
pertain to the employment of Mr.
Bernard Eastman as Secretary up tC
the period of reorganization in Feb
ruary.
In the judgment of the Committee
the following questions are pertinent:
/. Shall we pay for value receiv-
ed?
2. Has fayette County had value
received from the services of Mr..
Eastman while Secretary of the Pay
ette County Commercial Club?
3. What has he done for Payette
County that in all probability, would
not have been done without his ef-
forts?
In answer to the last query, we
ask
1. Who secured the Business
Mems illustrated Lecture at the
Emma, which was considered worth
while by all who saw and heard it,
2. Who secured the Cattle Grow
ers' State Convention for Payette
County?
8. Who secured the State Horti-
cultural Convention, said to be the
best ever held in the State?
4. Who secured the State Sunday
School Convention which will bring
from 400 to 500 people to Payette
in June?
5. Who is most responsible for
the formation of Highway District
No. and who worked hardest to
carry the bond election for s150,000?
6. Who is responsible for leaving
the City of Payette out of District
No. 2 on the ground that bond is
the same as mortgage and the
city could not have gone ahead with
public improvements requiring bond
ing, as no bonding company would
want a second mortgage? This leaves
Payette free to Pave whenever she
is ready for it.
7. Who was greatly instrumental
in securing S1O3,000 of Federal mon
ey for road building in District No.
/ in Payette County, which is the
only county in this part of the State
that secured any Federal aid?
8. Whe secured the free right of
way in order to change several very
bad corners on the State Highway
where auto accidents have frequently
as for example to two
corners on the Erwin ranch?
8. Who secured the National
Evergreen Highway through the en-
tire County?
10. Who is working hard right
now to secure the State Sanitarium
for Payette County, and who is leav-
ing nothing undone to secure the
large California Canning Factory for
Payette County, and has them both
assured for us, which will
furnish us with an unlimited market
for all kinds of produce and increase
our population and taxable property
The answer to all these questions
is Bernard Eastman.
Several of the above mentioned ac-
complishments each standing alone,
is worth all that they all together
have cost. For example the National
Highway Board estimates that at
least 5000 autos of eastern people
will travel this road this year thru
Payette, Fruitland and New Ply
mouth. Each car will average four
people making a total of 10000 non
residents passing through our Coun-
ty this summer. They will spend here,
oil, gas, and auto repairs
as we'll as for food and other sup
plies, approximately $4,000 within
the County, not taking into consid-
Grafton the thousands who are seek
ing new homes some of whom may
locate here. This National Highway
is more valuable us than a new
would be. This item alone !
may easily be reckoned to be worth, |
ultimately, a hundred times what it
has cost us.
The conclusion of the Committee
is that the service of Mr.. Eastman
will eventually, if not now be recog-
nized as worth many times its cost
to Payette County. He nagnanimous-
ly agrees to donate the time and
energy he has spent, without salary.
Let us pay him his actual expenses.
Be ready to contribute your share
when called upon by the Committee
to do so.
M. F.. Albert W. B. Sims
j. A. Lauer Frank ySeeley