Show WHY NOT BUILD IT Ir What figures we have hac regarding the total amount of ot freight shipped into Int Into the Basin during tho the year yar 1914 Indicate the remarkable fact tact that we wo have hav sufficient tonnage right NOW to Justify the building of ot an electric line from some Basin point to the D D. R. R G. G at Price Colton or up the Strawberry You did not believe that fiat eh eb Perhaps you ou dont believe It now you have hav read the above But one otle of ot the peculiar features of ot growth lu In a new coti conn cotin- cotin like Ilke this Basin Is that thai the citizens seem unable to realize how rapidly their wealth and population grows The man who has been held down o ohIS on hl hIS farm struggling hard against the newness of ot things and fighting against Isolation and the expensive features of growth that this Implies is prone t to measure generalities by the standard In his mind In the earl early stages of ot the operations operation It s B difficult to realize reali that we are growing at the rate rale of ot fifty per cent per pe per annum In population and about the same In taxation valuations Yet such I Ithe Is the truth With these wonderful facts b before fore your our e eyes cs do yuo censure The Thc Record for caling your our attention to the fact that we are slightly asleep Do you believe bellevo we are doing all we can do Or all that we should do e a question Is What can I do to help In the work of increasing the th population building roads and ultimately getting a railroad or 01 some kind nd Yes that's the question It Is not What will some other fellow do so muc much muchas as It Is What shall shaIl I 1 do do This paper has said time and time again In the last few tew months that w we can double the natural growth by a united effort to bring In new citizens But there is another way in which we can help accomplish the same thing viz Study the needs of our towns and districts and get together on th the supplying of those demands Perhaps the leading subject before th the house as It were Is the I possibility ty of an lino line If t wll pa pay then why not It It- ItIs Is up to us to show men with money that it will pay If you ou think that wo must wail wall until the government builds the road then the just continue continuo thinking it but twenty years hence will see seo you still sUll If you resolve to help do t NOW something will be done dolie |