m^^msmrnrn ,1' 'H.'-j 'I'J .r ,?, ~V INTERNATIONAL falls press PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS has ever known but that production 40 per cent of the area of the United has come from these states. They lateral thereto. If they do not understand is far,, far behind, that capital has States, exclusive of Alaska and7 our this fact, it is high time it have produced immense quantities of opportunities for unlimited development, insular possessions. copper, lead and zinc and still have was learned. AND BORDER BUDGET that the advice, "Go west, young A Public Trust1 vast supplies of these metals to be WEALTH WAITS IN man", is still a living message? But it is not generally understood worked. America's supplies of tungsten H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager COLORADO'S LANDS It is true that in the past three that all the people of the United and molybdenum are found almost years more than 30,000,000 acres of States own more than one-half of exclusively in the west, and the entered at the Po»t Office at International Falls, Minn., aa Second-Claaa Matter horifestead and Indian lands have this vast area. In these eleven states same is true of vanadium arid other Vast Areas Open to Homesteads and been entered in the Rocky mountain there are more than 120,000,000 acres Mineral .Resources. Are Unlimited. metals of that group. The Rocky SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 Fp REIGN, $2,50 PER YEAR states, mostly by farmers from the of National forests, the property of —Governor Calls Attention to Need mountain west gave radium to the Mississippi valley, and millions of the federal government, on which of Water to Make Garden of Desert world. The water resources of these Northwestern Advertising Representatives acres of raw land have been placed timber is being grown- and preserved Acres. western states are almost' illimitable. Minnesota Select List under cultivation. •. for the benefits of all the people. They produce a very large percenta 709 Exchange Bank 215 South 6th Street By OLIVER H. SHOUP These forests are not the property of of the country's petroleum output, St. Paul Minneapolis Travel by Auto the states in which they are located and their oil shales are capable of The main current of the swelling Editor's Note.—The following by nor of the people of these states, but be had, and therefore it is hardly true producing, with proper development,, Foreign Advertising Representative stream of tourist travel that flows THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Governor Oliver H. Shoup of Colorado of all the peoplie. In other words, that our manufacturers sold these more petroleum than has been produced into the west each year is made up may give you a new viewpoint of the about 16 per cent of the area of these goods to the value of any hundreds in the entire world up to date vast territory that lies along the towering of people who have not traveled extensively eleven states is National forests belonging PROSPERITY LINKED of millions of dollars yearly in other and more than is contained in all mountains of the west. There in the past. Most of them to the government. TO FOREIGN TRADE lands in order to make a larger profit the known oil fields of the world. are many possibilities touched upon in are people of moderate mean». Visitors upon them than could be had at home. his article altd as chief executive of In these states there is approximately to the national parks and national the state he is in a position to have On the contrary, everyone familiar 192,000,000 acres of government "Sell Abroad or Wither at Home" Stationery is* the eagerly sought forests come from every state knowledge as well as enthusiasm. with the subject knows that before land open to hpmestead entry. Says Redfield, Authority in Exports gift. .Rubin's drug store carries a of the union and every year they include the war our industrial output had become 1 This is more than 25 per cent of And Imports.—Nation Cannot Consume complete line. thousands who are making so large that our own markets Did you know you have a part ownership their total area. Some of this land Its Own Production—Physical tours of the west for the first time. could not continuously absorb it when of 120,000,000 acres of land? is suitable for dry farming, but much and Moral Exchange Needed. Most of them travel by automobile the factories ran full time. Therefore, Did you know that there are 192,000,000 of it can never be farmed profitably and many of them carry their camping O W E S acres of land out in the "golden the alternative was to find a market without irrigation and most of it, so By WILLIAM C. REDFIELD outfits' with them, living all the in other countries or to shut down west" waiting for those who.wish Plants and Seeds far as we know, is valuably only for time in the open air and enjoying to in whole or part for a portion of the homesteads and who need only comply With a reputation. grazing purposes and for the minerals Editor's Note.—William C. Redfield the full the wonderful climate which time. In other words, manufacturers with the simple government rules Supplied to the Great Northwest was Secretary of Commerce under it contains. The reclamation of is one of. nature's richest gifts to the President Wilson and is now the chairman Extra values in Emblems and knew that if they would run steadily toNown a farm of their own? this public agricultural land and the west. Sprays for Funerals. of the board of the National they must find foreign markets for a More important, did you know that development of its mineral resources Manufacturers' Export Association. The tourist and homeseeker movement DULUTH FLORAL CO. portion of the goods they made.Evet.yone millions of these acres are worthless depends upon the attitude of the federal His knowledge of the need of an active Duluth, Minn. to the west is especially gratifying who gives the subject thought now because you and your neighbors government, and that attitude and world-wide export trade is to those of us who are interested knows, also, that during the war in never took the trouble to find out based on investigations carried on for depends largely upon knowledge of years both as one of the leaders in in the development of ,this vast this country, as in all other industrial about them and ask that their arid the possibilities of the west. the Wilson administration and as the area, for we realize that development wastes be turned into producing gardens ones, the capacity of our plants was While these eleven states include O. G. SNYDER head of an organization whose life is capable of feeding untold thousands? here depends to a very large extent greatly increased. This increase nearly 40 per cent of the area of the given to furthering the movement to Registered Optometrist upon the co-operation of the entire varied in different industries, but the place the United States in the lead country, they contain only a little and Optician country, and the people of other sections demands of the Allies and later of Millions of acres of land are waiting as' the world's greatest producing and more than eight per cent of the country's Broken Lenses Duplicated of the United States can not be export nation. our own forces covered substantially in the west for the coming of population. In 1910 they contained At Gledhill's Jewelry Store expected to cooperate freely in the all the wants of man and it is therefore water and that water can be obtained about seven per cent of the Fort Frances development of the west until they true that' some increase in productive through the aid of the United States China once adopted a policy—and population and in 1900 only about five capacity was well nigh universal. government, an aid that would not are better informed about what such under it she crumbled to a spineless per cent. These state's are increasing be withheld if you and your neighbors development means for all the nation. In certain industries the increase bulk that at one time threatened in population more rapidly than the KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS was large more than 1 a few expressed a desire to see it go It should be borne in mind that the death to her as a nation and her country at large, but their greatest ATTENTION! entirely new factories were constructed. flowing through the deserts and transform area of the eight Rocky mountain people as a race. need is still more people. them to to a great aid to America. states is 549,840,000 acres, or approximately Thousands of American citizens today Rich In Minerals All local members, regardless are asking why we do not adopt 29 per cent of the area of the Today's Needs of present standing, Did you know that out in Colorado entire country, while the combined Nearly 50 per cent of the available a similar policy, asking this question The war is over These new and please leave name and and all through the Rocky Mountain even in the halls of legislation and areas of the eight Rocky mountain coal of the country is found in these enlarged plants are here and some at address at this office. section there waits one of the richest states and the three Pacific Coast eleven states. The great bulk of the among the units of our commercial least are idle, while others are working fields of natural resources the world states is 753,420,800 acres, or nearly life. nation's production of- gold and silver but part time. Capital is invested le United States sufficient unto in them. The men who own this itself? Can it draw about its shores H! capital would like to employ labor to a Chinese wall ,that would exclude not the full capacity of these plants in only immigration and the exchange of order that they may earn interest upon relationship but would wipe from the their investment. The men who seas the import and export trade and are out of work today would also like turn inward all the powers and possibilities to be employed in these plants in of her growth? order that they may earn food and Dressed in glittering generalities, clothing for their families. How shall bedecked in false conception of progress, this employment be provided? Can tricked out in brilliant but empty orders be found in the United States phrases of a selfish patriotism in these times sufficient to keep these grounded on false logic, the campaign plants moving? Everyone knows has been carried on since the that they cannot. Can orders be found time,scores of years ago,when our un/ QUALITY BETTER OR PRICES LOWER THAN ELSEWHERE. EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME at any time in the United States-sufficient thinking citizens brought shame to to keep all these plants moving SHERIBROS. true Americans as they boastfullyshouted steadily at their full capacity? before a contemptuous Europe, Everybody knows that this also cannot Hi "America can lick the world." not be done. We could consume Leaving aside the obvious fact that the product of these plants continuously there are many things we cannot produce before they were enlarged. Now in the United States and that FURNITURE AND JEWELRY. WITH A GREATER ASSORTMENT TO SELECT FROM. TWO BIG that they are greatly grown we are our necessary purchases of these much less able to absorb all their abroad can be most conveniently covered STORES LOADED WITH DESIRABLE AND SEASONABLE MERCHANDISE—COME IN products. There has not been time by sending our goods in return, for the national consumption to grow are there no cogent domestic reasons up to the ^national industrial production A veritable avalanche of real bargains is prepared for you this week. Bargains that are absolutely unmatchable which make a foreign market for our and until our home consumption products a matter of necessity? by any other store. In mentioning these prices, we don not mince matters—Prices ARE SIMPLY CUT shall equal our home production, Three Great Staples markets must either be found abroad WIDE OPEN. Furniture and Jewelry are supreme gifts. SHER'S IS THE PLACE TO GET IT. 7 At least three great commodities or the plants must operate part t:me spring to our thought when this question or run at reduced production. This is raised. These are cotton, 11 ALL LIBERTY BONDS ACCEPTED AT FACE VALUE—AS CASH is as inexorable as fate as certain as wheat and copper. We have liever $ gravitation. consumed, nor can we consume, anything It is easy to see the process in its like the quantities of these ••I details. A great plant in a city of which we produce. Shall we produce A FEW SUGGESTIONS— A FEW SUGGESTIONS— the central west, employing some less, therefore, or shall we sell the thousands of men, is idle. Far in a surplus we always have in the only From the Furniture Store distant land a skilled industrial officer From the Jewelry Store available markets, which are the foreign negotiates a large order for the markets? The question answers product of that plant with a foreign itself. It is, we at once see, vital to DAVENPORTS DIAMOND RINGS government. Forthwith the plant the prosperity of our agricultural and ROCKiERS DIAMOND BAR PINS springs to life. Thousands of men mining interests that we have a large STANDS SMOKING -GENUINE PEARL NECKLACES find productive toil. Their families and steady foreign market for these FLOOR LAMPS FINE SHEFFIELD CASSEROLES are able to purchase needed supplies commodities. The home of every LIBRARY AND DINING TABLES FINE SHEFFIELD PIE PLATES and clothing, and business revives. In farmer arid miner is directly affected BED ROOM SUITES TOILET ARTICLES still another land a great municipality by the conditions in our export trade. DISHES CIGARETTE HOLDERS requires a large lot of American apparatus. This foreign commerce has neither Necessary arrangements being been large nor steady in 'recent made for the financing of the & months and the result appears in order, it is placed in another city in every cotton plantation and wherever I Buy That Phonograph Ladies' Wrist Watch the central west. At once the same wheat is grown. None are so foolish process appears. Men go back to as to say that an export market is Now—All are Guaranteed work and their families are once more not essential and the labor concerned Special able to buy. In a different continent in the production of cotton, copper Extra Special a large eastern manufacturer finds and wheat. business sufficient to keep his works But these three are in some degree moVing full tim§ when o'thers are all typical of, others. We sell abroad Gold case, twenty-year guarantee, fj Starting today we will give away, but idle. On the other hand, a large such commodities as lumber, oil and absolutely free with each phonograph, a very beautiful gift—for only concern finds that it has productive steel, and each in different forms or one hundred records valued at $85.00. jj capacity beyond its selling power. states of manufacture. Why are they jj Prices From fj This country cannot consume the entire sold abroad? Is it not because there $15.00 product and circumstances are is no sufficient market for them at $125'$175 such that foreign markets are not home? Is it not, therefore, also true found. Forthwith dullness settles on that the steady employment of labor, jj Take advantage of this offer while the plant. Men are discharged their And remember 100 double records jf the regular return .upon capital both they last. fi wages ceases. At last, in order to supply require that a foreign market shall be jj free. Don't miss this wonderful op- j§ the limited market which does jj portunity, phonographs are gifts that found for the products which they 1 ,We ^nvite prices or quality com- I exist, such a concern offers for sale jj are truly appreciated. A small deposit 3 jointly make, and that it is certain the machinery which has been producing that capital cannot continuously earn j§ will hold till Christmas. parison. J§ and labor be continuously employed on its floors rather than undertake iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiQittiiiiiii^ 1 ^iMuiuuiiiuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiuutiiiniiiHiiiifinniiiiunniuininiiiiniiinniniiMnnuininniMnHnni^ the expense of manufacturing unless such markets are found for a limited quantity of new machinery. any surplus over the consuming capacity Hundreds of Other Things to Choose From too Numerous to Mention in This Ad.—Do not Fail To See Our Stocks. Here is seen the process of of our own country? Pre-War Markets actually reducing the productive capacity of the country for lack of markets. Leaving these major items, which some might say were selected ones, we. find that before the war there had If the basic proposition is plain, a been a steady growth in our export long step is taken toward the solution sales of partly or fully finished manufactures of co-ordinate problems. Do the until these had become the American people yet understand that TWO BIG STORES Furniture Jewelry largest element in our outward foreign their proseprity is inextricably linked business. Why was this so? with the export trade? If they do The foreign markets are not usually understand this factv they will be those in which excessive prices can guided accordingly in all matters col­ ,V W el