Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-12-21
DELEGATES
MAKE REPORT
COMMERCIAL CLUB LEARNS OF
ACTIONS TAKEN AT LEWISTON
MEETING OF BOOSTERS.
DISCUSS WISCONSIN LAND LAW
WIN Buy War Hero Memorial for
New City Hall.

The launching of an extensive pub
hcity campaign to bring settlers TO
North Idaho was the main feature OF
the convention of the North Idaho
Chamber of Commerce held at Lewis
ton December IL and IL, according to
the delegates from the Kootenai Val
ley Commercial club who attended.
The delegates were NJ. p De Wolf,
w. G. Reid and r. E. Alexander.
We had a fine meeting" reported
Mr.. De Wolf at the Monday meeting
of the local club. I'VE were enter
tanned at two bsnquets, shown through
the buildings and grounds of the Lew
iston Normal school and the Childrens
Home. Among the speakers at the
convention was a professor of for
estry who, among other things, told
us how to pile the brush in our for
ests. Personally, | did not agree with
the speaker, as my experience has
been that piling and burning of brush
in forests kills too much seed and is
detrimental to reforestation There
were several good speakers on the
program and we had very nice time"
Mr.. Reid reported that h e train
bearing large number of the dele
gates into Lewiston was late and the
opening session of the convention.
which was to have been on Monday
afternoon, Dec. II, was postponed un-
til Monday evening, when all dele
gates We're present.
"A very encouraging program was
mapped out for the years work" said
Mr.. Reid. The ten northern coun-
ties of the state are united on a pub
licity campaign, which is being put
over principally by the Northern Pa
cific, the Great Northern and the Mil
waukee railroads. These roads have
secured pictures and descriptive mat
ter from each of the ten counties and
arranged a 40-page pamphlet for dis
tribution through the east to attract
settlers to North Idaho. The roads
have offered to furnish any quantity
of these phamphlets to the counties
interested, in addition to the thou
sands which will be distributed
through the immigrat ton departments
of the railroads. | think every one
of the ten North Idaho counties are
taking from one TO two thousand of
these phamphlets.'
After hearing the reports of the
delegates the club voted to take
1000 of the publicity pamphlets. at
the railroads offer of SO, which is
said to be the actual cost 1t is ex-
pected that the pamphlets will be
ready for distribution some time in
February.
Mr.. Alexander also spoke of the
publicity campaign in his report.
Each of the ten northern counties"
said Mr.. Alexander, has been allotted
s,,% %Ia III
to be devoted to descriptive matter
concerning the resources, climatic
conditions and industries contained
within the county and the other two
pages for illustrations"
Mr.. Alexander was one of com
mittee appointed at the Lewiston CON
vention to investigate the Wisconsin
land mortgage loan law and to re-
port at the next meeting of the cham
ber This law has been in force in
Wisconsin for a number of years and
it is claimed has been the means of
clearing several thousand acres of
logged-over land
From my investigations so far"
said Mr.. Alexander, "the law permits
is or more or more freeholders to
organize into a land mortgage asso-
citation. with a capital stock of not
less than $4,000. They can then pur-
chase land, subject to the approval
OF the states department of agricuI-
ture and the state banking commits
sion, and offer the land at whatever
terms they wish to prospective set
tiers. / understand the law has been
very successful in Wisconsin. Care
seems to have been taken to select
qualified farmers for settlers. We
viii thoroughly investigate the meas
ure and if all is true that is claimed
for it, the North Idaho Chamber of
Commerce Will probably seek to have
a similar law enacted in Idaho. That
is at present the object of our in
vestigations.
A communication was read regard
ing fruit evaporator in this section
A man operating an evaporator at
Zenia, ILL.,. is desirous of moving his |
plant to Idaho and has written for
information regarding local prospects
in that line. The secretary was in |
structed to send the required infor-
nation.
The club by motion authorized the
expenditure of 1920 for a bronze me-
mortal to Boundary county's heroes |
~ - Pt1,tN III VIC new CITY Ildll. Inc 1
memorial will be in the form of a |
tablet, bearing the names of the ten !
men from this county who gave their |
lives in the World War. The dimen- !
sions of the tablet will be 14x24 inches. |
A motion that the usual charge of |
80 cents for the Monday dinners be |
increased to 75c and ne-third of this |
be turned into the swimmins poolI
fund was defeated. The opinion |
seemed to prevail that this method of |
raising money for the fund would hit |
the same people over and over again |
and might have a tendency TO curtaiI |
al the club meetings.
The matter of deficiency in the |
funds Of the two-countv council of |
the Boy Scouts owing to non-payment |
of money subscribed last year was
brought before the meeting. It de-
however, that the committee |