The Wheatland World

Here is something from the Lander
State Journal the people of Wheatland
might think about:

We all like to believe that we are a
bunch of live ones. But are we?
A
little comparison with other good towns
will not hurt any and may do some
good. Take for instance, Eugene,
Oregon. A few weeks ago a Lander
business man wrote to the secretary of
the commercial club at Eugene asking
about the country. He has had something
from that secretary in almost
every mail since.

The amount of
good boosting literature they put out
is wonderful. In a personal letter to
the inquirer, John Hartog, the secretary,
said that he had 1,000 just such
inquirers and that he proposed to keep
right after them until they located
somewhere. He stated that their town
had grown from a village to a city of
10,000 people in four or five years and
that a fund of $12,000 had been raised
to double it again. A wealthy citizen
there had just given thirty-two acres
of land adjoining the city for a park.

Which one of our citizens has ever
given a foot of land for such purposes?
When have we ever had a line of reading
matter to send out? Can we expect
outsiders to come here and give us a
thousand dollars an acre for land that
cost $1.25, if we never even invite them,
while other communities are busy all
the time? Just take a pencil and
figure out the answer.--Lander State
Journal.