Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-03-06
This Week
The Wonderful South
Startling Quick Growth
Buy the Land of No Regret
The '1f' Candidates
By Arthur Brisbane

This is written at Palm Beach, hap
by land, where those with nothing to
do are doing it energetically. The blue
sea is beautifully calm, the breeze that
sweeps across it is mild. The water
is warm. Human beings are bobbing
up and down in 1t.
The big hotels are packed.
Think what it will be few years
hence at Palm Beach, Miami, st. Au-
gustine, Jacksonville, all the marvel
GUS resorts of Florida, Georgia, and
the Carolinas when the flying machine
annihilates distance
Buy land in the south, well chosen,
and you won't regret 1t.
Those that live north know little
about the south and the rapidity Of
its growth, surprising all growth else
where.
Thirty-seven million people live in
the south. The value of their property
is estimated at sixty-five billion dol.
lars That sum, sixty-five times one
thousand million dollars, is a good
deal But it represents only frac-
ton of the real wealth of the south.
Florida alone is worth several times
what is called ''the true value of prop
erty in southern states"
The thirty millions of acres now I'M
employed in Florida would yield I'M
der ordinary cultivation an annual
profit of one hundred dollars an acre
that's a low estimate.
That alone would be three billion
dollars year, 5 percent on sixty bill
lions of dollars. Under intensive cul-
tivation, with irrigation and proper
fertilizing, the thirty million unused
acres of land in Florida would easily
produce a net profit of $500 an acre
enough TO pay off all public debt OF
the United States with ease in less
than four years.
That Is real wealth, and all that is
required to develop it is more good
population and capital.
Millions of good agriculturists that
would eagerly come here from Italy
and elsewhere should be Welcomed
with open arms and helped to get
start instead of being stopped at Ellis
island and turned back with strange
stupidity.
The growth of the south within the
last few years is the marvel of indus
trial and financial history. Southern
bank resources, exceeding eight thou
sand millions, are 35 percent greater
than In 1910 Capital Invested in
manufacturing has increased from
three billions to over nine billions in
eight years.
Mr.. Denby's resignation clears VI
the political situation. President Coo
lidge is as fortunate in conditions
that face the Democratic party as hi
is in the fact that the public thus far
holds him free of all responsibility in
the oil scandal
What is supposed to be the elimin-
alton of Mr.. McAdoO actually leaves
the Democrats without any recognized
conspicuous leading candidate, with
the convention only a few months
away.
Nearly every Democrat mentioned
is an "if' candidate.
They say Senator Copeland might
get it IF 1t should prove impossible
to nominate Al Smith.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, undoubt-
eddy the most forceful and available
candidate, might get it IF he had not
made so many enemies.
1t is said that William Jennings
Bryan might be drafted, because of
his known capacity to get votes, If
he had not been secretary OF state.
Nominated or not, Mr.. Bryan Will
have "a good deal to say about the
man that is nominated and also about
several that will not be nominated.