The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-10-19
OPTIMISM CAN
RULE STILL IS
ST0TTS' BELIEF
Veteran Newspaper Man
Thinks Boise Valley
Has Cause to View
Bright Future

part OF Idaho today and that this reg
ion faces certain and sure prosper
Gus future were declarations OF James
R. Stotts, loop veteran newspaper man
when he was welcomed at the Kiwanis
club luncheon Thursday.
Your city has many opportunities
and advantages. They always impress
theselves upon outsiders and strang-
ers. ! wonder if they make the same
impression upon the citizens OF this
city. You know. too often distance
lends illogical enchantment to the
view. Too often the focus OF our OBJ
servation is such that we fail to ap-
preciate objects and conditions worth
while around us. I wonder if this is
in any measure true OF you, the citi-
zens of the magic City" There is
a general recognition that from a com
mercial viewpoint you have one OF the
best little cities in the State and this
organization through its pep and pro-
nounced progressive spirit has impress
sed itself not only upon the minds OF
the citizens OF this state, but upon the
minds OF the citizens OF the entire
Pacific Northwest. ! trust that no
one has so focused his sight upon Los
Angeles, Seattle or Portland that he
can see only one of those cities. If
so, get down to Mother Earth" and
study and know your own city and its
advantages. True enough this section
is confronted by some adverse condi-
tions, but do you know OF a section
where they are better, | do not. You
have some distinctive advantages. You
have in your College of Idaho. the prin
cipal educational institution OF South
ern Idaho and an institution constitu-
ting a channel through which approx
imately $1,000 is expended annual
ly in your city. Then you have three
creameries in your city which are pay
ing out to the farmers OF the tribu-
tary country more than $4,000 month
ly or in excess OF 81, 800 daily for their
milk and cream. One of these cream
cries, alone, is buying from the farm
ers of the surrounding country 1000
pounds OF butterfat each day for which
it is paying them Sl,l00 or better
This is a significant fact is it not'
Then you have another notable indus
try your mammoth egg receiving sta
ton. II is expending many thous-
ands of dollars each year among the
farmers of the surrounding country
for "Biddy's' products. These rev.
enues mean much. They reflect the ad
vantages to be derived from diversifi-
ed farming and one of these days when
we get down to real diversified farm
ing and get railroad through Jordon
Valley by Winnemucca connecting up
with San Francisco this section will
develope into the feed basket OF all
the castal country and our entire hor-
lion will be of roseatc hue. Mark
you that | mean by diversified farm
ing well balanced crops. not too much
OF anything, but that all your eggs
will not be crowded into one basket.
A better day is ahead of us. The
prices of farm products are far be-
low what they should be and especial
ly so when compared with what farm
ers are paying lor what they have to
buy, but on an average they are about
l8 per cent bette. than last year.
Moreover, while farm products are be-
low what they should be and of the
fact that land is not moving il is not
going to decline in price much more
il any. Why' Well one OF the reas-
ons which | would assign is that the
of the United States is
rapidly increasing and that compare
lively speaking but little land remains |
to be brought into cultivation. Since
1910 there has been an increase in our
population OF sixteen and onc-half
million people. Draw your own in
ference as to what effect continuance
of this increase is going to have on
agriculture Then, according to Bab-
son we have one million less farmers
than We had year ago. This means
more and more for agriculture.
Another optimistic fact that ! would
stress is that from six to eight carloads
OF hogs are being shipped out each
week from your city and that hog
dealers report there are more hogs in
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