Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-03-04
OPTIMISM WITH CONSEREA-
TiON ESSENTIAL REED
THINKS

/ Iully around tne corner 10 size up the
! prospect of filling her bucket. This
refers to the wholesale and jobbing
business. Idaho should have her owl
wholesale and jobbing business on a
more extensive scale than at present
The Occur d'Alene mines contri -
butte tremendously to the prosperity
md upbulding of the city of Spokane
in Washington. Southwestern Idaho
! contributes hundreds Of thousands of
dollars a year to the prosperity of
Portland. in the State of Oregon, and
everybody knows that southeastern
Idaho in one of Salt Lake and Ogden's
best business assets.
steals over us. When are we going
to have a Spokane, a Portland, or a
Salt Lake within the confines of our
own state" Many OF the big int ar
ests Of Idaho have their general offices
in other states, and that helps a lot
When you stop to think of this, il is
big drain on the state every year.
Why not keep as much money and
business at home as we can?
Figures Toll Tale
Again. Idaho has 10000 less people
than the city OF Los Angeles. ami yet
Idaho is attempting to maintain the
same institutions that California does
1doho has $4,000 square miles about
65.o0o.ooo acres. and f5f 900 people In
the entire state. with not over 10 per
cent in cultivation. Consequen' 'ly our
taxes are high and viii be so until we
get more development and more people
The writer favors schools, highways,
= nd rhar u
building. happiness and prosperity Of
Idaho and its people and he is the
pronounced friend OF the man of to-
morrow" which means our boys and
girls At the same time, there is a
practical side to this matter that must
always be kept in sight or we will up
set the boat. The probleb the work
ers and leaders are now facing is to |
arrange some plan to relieve the situa- !
ton for everybody so they can at least
make living and save a little money
while these big matters are under con-
sideration and construction. The o.
S. L. is paying out large sums OF money
every month for new work and the bet |
ternent OF the railroad system, the
Idaho Power Company is spending con-
siderable over million dollars this !
year on new work. The money paid /
for the sugar beets the big money
We have had coming into Idaho tbs
season.
The Idaho Reclamation Association
S working persistently, methodically
md earnestly to create conditions
the millions Of acre-feet OF
water that flow out of this state every
1ear can be applied to the land. there
oy creating new homes and new oppor-
unities. 1t is trying to create an in
crest in the development OF this state.
10 that by an organized effort and
work in the proper channels this result
nay be accomplished within the next
ew years.
CUT UP LAND HOLDINGS
The writer can see an opportunity for
lew people to come into Idaho now by
laving the people who have more irri-
-ated land than they can cultivate sell
art of it. That would simplify the la
or situation very much. because if a
nan who owns eighty acres of land can
My farm forty by the aid of himself
nd family, and has to employ labor at
he present prices, it reduces his profit
cry materially. If he sold part Of his
lace another family could occupy that, !
nd they could do the same thing and J
9th should prosper.
There are not many places in south
rn Idaho where dry farming pays. On
ONE of the benches they get fairly -
ood crops, but generally in the valley I
f the Snake dry farming is failure {
nd it is a crime to encourage a man a
, locate on dry farm with the ex- q
OF raising a good crop every y
ear, for it does not pan out that way. b
his is true unless the farm location a
rs the possibility of coming sometime
ithin the chance of irrigation. $
At the present time there is a good d
aal of dissatisfaction in Idaho among Il
e taxpayers. 1t is the intent to look II
the conditions as they exist. We b
I've just passed through an unuuai II
'riosd of prosperity, extravaganza and 1,
reless waste. In most instances peo- a
e who have received big money and p
we spent it as they went along are al
It entitled to a great deal of sympa- OF
y. The farmer who raises a crop and r,
unable to market it is in bad shape u
d is entitled to help. The Idoho peo- m
> are not tight about expenditures as in
lg as they get value for their money. OF
Creative Period At Hand bl
The general situation in Idaho is far es
I'm being normal or good. Many are
the honest opinion that we have m
ne ahead little too fast on our m
my programs for progress, and that st
have paid too little attention to the he
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