Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1921-04-14

DeSt or everything.
Most of the listeners jeered at the
speaker; some rebuked him severely
for such a careless prediction and
others sat in silence bordering over
the perils which must be encountered
by their loved ones in Drawing, as
they did, the wilderness in order that
this beautiful dream might come
true. The conversation ceased, mad
as the members of their fire died
away, this little group of virulent
pioneers stole away to their all too
scanty hunks to SILVER through the
cold of the western night.
The years have passed. Some Of
these pioneershave seen the fulfill
ment of that weird prophecy Of the
camp fire. Others have passed on to
explore another yet undiscovered
country from whose bourne no tray
eler returns. The prophecy is COM
plete. The immigrants have come,
first in small punches, then in large
ones, then the mighty trains broke
the stiffness of the desert and drove
the wolves and the Indians into the
distance Then the settlers came by
carloads and train loads. They
could see that this country held
possibilities unknown to any other
sections of the continene. They saw
the rich soil, the roaring streams for
irrigation and the generation of cleo,
trical powers, they saw the wonder
full climate adapted to the maximum
production Of all sorts of crops and
conducive to the best of health and
vigor. They came, they saw and
they conquered They worked night
and day. They titled the soil, they
harnessed the streams, they Quilted
the mountains for their precious
they felled the forests for
their valuable timber, until now we
have the fulfillment in the mighty
trains, the business houses, the mills
and factories, the magnificent high
ways, the huge steel bridges the
and the aeroplanes, the
the fields and the magni-
ficent homes crowded with happy,
healthful and successful inhabitants.
This is not a picture but reality.
But, is the vision complete? Must
progress cease, or is the goal still
further advanced? Pioneers with
their prophecies are still in existence.
Some of you would have derided the
prophecy of the camp fire. Will you
augh now at the prophecy Of an
enormousc city, with paved sctreete,
Hitting sctreet cars, a constant roar
If factory whistles, and with sky
,crapers towering high above the
streets below. The realization OF
such a prediction is inevitable. Our
'ruit industry, extensive as it is, is |
still in it's infancy; there are thou
sands of acres on all sides of us still !
o be reclaimed and subdued; our
central location for distribution of
rops, our main line railroad, our
increase in manufactur-
G establishments, the location of the
lew sanitarium at our city, our
bundance of irrigation water, and
,,, +bo,copd, % rrocnarouc Ivorlxarc
nd thrifty hines, all are positive
of still a new era of SUI
er-developement.
The city of Payette represents
lore wealth than any city of its
lie in radius of thousands of miles
low has this been accomplished?
imply by the wisdom of those who
ould see an opportunity and had the
.amina to take advantage of it.
hey saw the future of Payette years
go. No argument or skepticism
build dissuade them. They bought
ty lots and held them. They dou-
ed, trebled and even more in value
nd they, who could foresee this,
,aped the harvest of their determi-
alton. They knew that real estate
llues seldom decline and are con- !
nually the advance. They knew {
at even the worst of panic seldom c
fected the price of land. They I
lew that the richest of our wealthy S
en- have been made by buying and
king the advance on city proper @
IS. a
These rich men were not rich at a
Q beginning. They learned with p
I'd knocks what SO many of us
We since forgotten, namely, that C
ey must "creep before they walk,
d must walk before they run. {
ey all started with the investment o
a few dollars or few cents. They Il
.rned the art of thrift and saving.
ey didn't ride in automobiles. h
ey didn't go to theatres every o.
hit in the week. They didn't wear II
Ks and satins. They didn't eat in
, daintiest of tit bits and they oil
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