Year: 1865

SONNA


ners through this country, en- route for the
Cnur d'Alene mines This will, of course,
give new impetus to trade, and the place
that is to become the main supply point for
these mines will be established by the supe-
rior liberality and foresight of the business
men of the places that may become rival
points. All experience has shown that the
place that first becomes established as de-
pot will remain so, provided the business
men of the locality will look to future as
well as to present profits, and not try to
" "gobble up" all the money that traders and
travellers may have, in the czaction OF enor-
NOUS profits on the first rush, simply be-
cause necessity or convenience may compel
them to buy at such place. The style Of
running up prices on every new mining ex-
citement that occurs, on the presumption that
miners will be compelled to buy at partic-
ular place simply because it is little nearer
or has other advantages over other points,
is the surest way to kill the trade of town;
for other points, not possessing these ad-
yantages, must do something to make them
selves even in the scale of competition, and
will invariably chose the alternative of low
er prices, and in nine cases out of ten, we
may say invariably, the low priced town gets
all the trade, and, in the long run, all the
profits too. The man who goes into store
or shop and purchases an article and after
wards ascertains that by going shsrt dis
tance farther he could have obtained one
equally as good for much less sum is not
likely to return there to purchase again; nor
will he patronize an establishment again,
when he can possibly avoid it, where czhor-
bitant charges are made on account OF his
necessities, or because the articles desired
can not just then be obtained elsewhere in
his vicinity SO it is with the miner in
passing through oountrY he may be COM
PEELED once to buy,,at high prices; but on bis
return another year he comes with the re-
membrance ofthat ext6rtiou before him and
will 90 elsewhere to purchase TO the car
rier or packer, to whom the difference of a
cent or half cent per pound on the articles
purchased makes a balance in his favor Of
hundreds Of dollars in profits on his cargo
The difference of two or three days travel is

insignificant in comparison, and the euIer-
geney must be very great Or he very regard
less of his own interests when he will not
avail himself Of the opportunity to make SO
much more money by going little farther
This much by way of prelude to speaking of
the chances of Walla Walla for securing the
Ceur d'Alene trade. o..44 ~ 'a9-


That it has superior advantages for se7
Curing all the trade and travel coming from
below and going by the Snake river ferries
all acquainted with the country will concede
at once. A glance at the maps will show
that it lies on the only direct thoroughfare
that has been opened to that country; and
being an old Established town and situated
in the center of fertile valley, which pro
duces in abundance all the staples of life, it
can not have any of the difficulties to con-
tend with that rival points which may
spring up will have to en5dunter before they
can become established But we have al
ready "living examples" of the fact near us
that enterprise will build towns upon sand
banks, when left free to do SO, and proof
too, that packers will take the chances at
turning out their trains to subsist for day
or two on sage brush, and even brave the
breath of the "iDfant smooms" that sweep
over the surrounding deserts, when 'e better
inducements in trade are offered them at
such places. Let the past teach its lesson.
Already we hear new "point' spoken of
-Palouse Landing: as unlikely spot as
Umatilla was two years ago; and already
steamboats, are advertised to land Ceur d.
Alene-bound passengers there place
where, as yet, no one but the ferrymen re-
side, where nothing in the line of miners
outfits can be obtained, ant, where not even
horse can be purchased (Which travellers
can begin their overland 9 hey. But un-
inviting as the place is, ar barren as the
soil is a town might be made to gr01o there.
But its growth will depend upon whether or
not the Walla Walla-ans are nedgndnimous
enough to irrigate it. Their every interest
demands that in this one respect they should
not be SO unselfsh With the acknowledged
advantages the place already has it is just
as easy to multiply them as to allow them to
diminish, and as sure as it now is of receiv-
ing full share of the first trade and travel
to those mines just that surely can that
trade and travel be retained if proper pol
icy is pursued by the business men of the
town. Let the merchants and mechanics
of the town arrange their scales of prices so
as to compete with the points on the river


stick to those prices and advertise them, in
some form, to the public and we will guar
rantee that Walla Walla will get the trade
and that no more rival towns will be built
up. ---o r-,rs..e


A LARGE TRoUT.-Dr. Steinberger had more
than ''fshermans luck" while out trouting one
day this week He captured one hundred and
one, with hook and line, the largest trout meas
f~, ~, - IL,