Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-03-26
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Mountain Home Republican.

Mountain Home Republican,
Will you, our neighbors, think !
am out of place if l say a few words
about your Chamber of Commerce
of which note was made in last
weeks issue.
We have a state of most remark
able possibilities far beyond what
many of us appreciate. Do you know
that
The valuation of Idaho's 16 prin-
cipal crops gained Al per cent in
1925 over 1924, according to Com
missioner Jacobson or from $751;
1885, 900 to $11O, 100000. These crops
are corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye,
potatoes. hay, sugar beets, clover,
and alfalfa seed, beans, peas, let
tuce, onions, prunes and apples.
Idaho ranked first in acre yield of
winter wheat, oats, beans, clover
seed. Second in rye and barley Third
in spring wheat, tame hay and pota-
toes, of all the states in the union
Idaho's average yield per acre of
winter wheat is 2A times the av-
erage of the country at large. The
average of oats more than one and
third that of the other states. The
average of beans is almost twice that
of the other states The average of
clover seed per acre is more than u
times that of the average of other
states. idaho raises 1876 bushels of
potatoes per acre. The country av-
erages 1898.
You did not know that probably. |
am not going to take time to go
into mining and lumber interests but
must say that we are third in po-
tential water power of all the states.
If you do not know these things
how do you expect people of other
states to find out. Look at the ad-
vertising of Florida and California.
Most of our own people do not know
that we have anything to advertise.
We are pioneers and pioneers are al
ways individualistic and see only
their own personal interests. Your
Chamber of Commerce is or ought to
be the moving force for Mountain
Home. Your interests in the narrow
sense of the term may not be just
the same as ours at Grand View
but in the larger sense of the term,
in the vision that looks forward
generation our interests are all the
same to place Idaho on the map in
accordance with the facts above stat
I'd and that is just what your Cham
Der of Commerce and our own and
Ill the rest through the state are for
o meet the competition for new set
lers, new business interests and the
development of these we have and
aeing facts why should we stand in
he background for any state Do
Tou know why we eat hens eggs
md not ducks eggs. When your
lens come off the nest they set up
heir cackle. In hen language they
ay, 1--WE laid an egg. I've laid an
gg." But duck just goes away {
nd says nothing about it. She does I
ot advertise. When you do not at t
end your Chamber of Commerce you
o not try to advertise and unless 4
ou and all our other towns take to v
his most legitimate form of adver-
ising we will be just "Idaho-oh, a
es, that is a mining state way out d
4 the mountains and you raise some n
ange cattle out there too, don't Il
gu ?" as 1 heard it said once. If we
ave the state of large opportuni- a
es let every Chamber of Commerce =
'om Weiser to Montpelier take it in "
and to let the world know the facts d,
nd I do not know any way to do
lis better than through some civic - -
'ganization, commercial club, cham
er of commerce. Rotary, Kiwanis, A
hatever we call it. This is no
ace "to let George do it." y r
Very truly yours,
J. e. INGHAM.