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Show 1 WE NEED A HOTEL. v Nampa, Idaho, a lown uf but scarce H ,000 Inhabitants, located In an undc- H vclopcd farming community, has a H I .r,0,000 hotel Logan, a city or 7,000, H ' In tho center of a well developed farm- H ing community of LVi.OOO people, has no H lio-Ucrv worthy tliu iiamo. Nampa's H lino hotel was built several years ago H when tho town had far less promise H tlianltjhas to-day. When John Dewey H put his money Into It ho didn't expect H to reap a twenty per cent dividend thu H llrst ear and ho would have been H I sadly disappointed If he had expected H that, for In truth the big hotel did not H i pay until within tho past eighteen M I months. It Is seldom now that Tho H ' t Dewey's eighty rooms aro not occupied H ' and the management Is figuring on H building an addition to the structure, M or else will cut up Into rooms an lm- M manse assembly and danco hall that' H occupies one portion of the building. M These rooms will soon bo tilled, also, M for that is a wondrous country and you m . can feel tho growth in tho air. M ' American plan rates at The Dewey H J are from $2 00 to $.1 SO, not high when M any service Is given Commercial trav- M cllcis swear by The Dewey and forsake H i llolse's best just to bo In touch with M the rest and comfort, roominess and H I quiet beauty of tho Nampa hotel. H These same commercials make Logan, H but from tho talk the writer has heard H in a three cars' close contact with H them he Is not led to bellovo that they H would forsake any placo but Cache H Junction to remain hero lliN with all H due respect to the excellent ctTorts of H those whoaro making tho most of their H structural facilities H Logan needs a llrst class hotel not H a $J50,000 structure perhaps, nor the H half of It hardly- but it is the opinion H of commercial men who have glen the H matter consld- lalo thought that a H $100,000 hotel would more than pay its H way In Logan. For a considerable time H - the expression has been that no town H In this western section oilers bettor M opportunity for a good hotel. Logan M capitalists have at different times dls- M cussed the advisability of Investing M I their money In such a proposition, but 1 unfortunately for tho city have ever M decided that It U better to loan money M at eight or ten per cent than to Invest H In an enterprise of this character or H auyothtr for that matter This spirit H Is responsible for tho fact that In 1 twenty j ears Logan has grown at the H rate of about 100 a jear, tho natural M Increase In the birth rate, H Logan ought to come out of It. the B old burg ought to wako up. While H thora is :om! very giatlfylng Improve- H : moot In many was, wo are still grop- H 1 Ing about in darkness. Kven at this H tlmo wo are not holding our own any. H where along tho line, that Is, by any H ' cITort being put forth. We are what H ' wo are because wo can't help It. Tc M day other towns of greater progress are olfcring tLogan propositions, In- duccments to relocate; we even stand a chance of losing what we have. vt Tho writer Isn't pessimistic ho is tho opposite, optimistic to the limit. Cicho Valley cannot be kept down. A pretty fair knowledge of both cast and west gives us absolute confidence In tho valley's future a good growth will yet be forced on us, but wo ought to anticipate that growth so that we may tako It at the tide and roll on ward upon the billows of progress. We need a hotel; the city can support a good one; will wo wait ten years for some "forclgnor" to como In here, discover dis-cover our need and build us a hotel, or will wo build It pursejves, and In less than four years attract many foreigners foreign-ers who might make other splendid discoveries that the local man can never see? Let's wako upl |