The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-26
COME, LET'S |RR|GATE.
The Board OF Trade Invites tho Next
Congress to Meet in
Helena.
Butte and Other Places May Also
Be Found In the
Race.
Farmers Asked to Send Samples Of Sugar
Bects to Find this value of the
Product.

A special meeting Of the Board of Trade
last night decided to extend nm invitation
TO the immigration congress to meet in
Helena next year. In the absence OF Preai-
dent Parohen and Vice President Muth,
the deliberations Of ths board were presided
over by Judge II. H. Howey. Col. A. @.
Botkin, one OF the Montana delegates to
the Salt Lake congress-, was called
on to explain how matters stood
in regard to the next place
of meeting. He said of the Montana
delegation, the only commercial body rep
resented was the Bozsman board of trade.
which sent fou delegates. The entire rep
ressntatisn from this state was twelve, but
they were allowed the full vote accorded
the state, thirty. There were present be-
tween i've and six hundred delegates, rep
rsssnting twelve states and territories. It
was . notable body. and disclosed q degree
of interest in irrigation which greatly i'm
pressed him with the idea that the future
of the west depends on the progress of this
great subject. On the third day of the
meeting, w. A. Clark, chairman of the
Montana delegation, approached Col, Bot
kin and asked il he should invite the CON
gress to meet in Montana next year. Col.
Botkin supposed Mr.. Clark meant Butte
and hesitatsd. Seeing his hesitation Mr..
CLARK said IL mean at Helena, Of COURSE"
1t WAS agreed to do 80, but in extending tho
invitation Mr.. Clark made 1t for Montana,
without mentioning any Particular CITY.
The colonel now noticed with some embav-
rassment that Butte thought she was in 1t
there. He did not think Mr.. CLARK was in
sympathy with any such movement, recog-
nlzing Rutte's inability to care for a crowd.
But he Jaw that this new turn of affairs
might cause Mr.. CLARK considerable embal-
rassmsnt. The invitation to como to Mon
tana had met with favor and. was
referred to the executive committee. That
committee met in the hotel AT Salt Lake
afterwards, and the expressions of a major
itv of them favored Montana. Gov.
Thomas, OF Utah, chairman Of the execu-
could for this state. Col. Botkin thought
it would be we'll to put before the executive
committee a formal invitation to come to
Helena, showing the city'a Willingness to
have the congress and her ability to enter
tain them. @
Barnard Brown said he and Gov. Toole
had had n conversation with Mr.. Clark,
who unqualifedly favored Helena. Gov.
Thomas, of Utah, also favored this place,
and the Boise delegation was for Helena as
second choice. Mr.. Brown thought the
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mittss through Mr.. Clark. He moved that
the p esldent and secretary of the Board of
Trade formulate an invitation to the
executive COMMITTEES to hold the
convention in Helena next year;
and tho presidents Of other eommercial
bodies join in the invitation. There was
some discussion as to whether or not it
would not put Mr.. CLARK in a very embar-
RAISING position to have him convey an in
~vitation to meet in Helena, when Butte, his
homo, wanted tho convention too. 1t was
the opinion of sone that it would relieve
Mr.. Clark of any embarrassment if the
invitation won't direct to the executive
committee. Others thought this might be
construed into an act Of ~discourtesy toward
the chairman of the Montana delegation.
1t was finally decided to extend the invita-
ton direct, and also through Mr.. Clark.
E.. d. Weed was called on to toll what he
thought Of the work of the convention
which he had attended as a delegate. He
said the business men of this city did not
convention. OF all the gatherings to be
held here next year this would be the best
for the city. The delegates were all leading
and representative men, the kind this city
wanted to attract here. Helena ought to have
$4,000 people. and the reason it hadn't was
the indifference of the business men to the
Importance of such gatherings. They
should appreciate the importance of hav-
ing delegates from California representing
800, 00O.O of wealth, come here. The bus
mess men Of Helena ought to wake up.
come to Montana, or if it did, it might go
to Butte. Denver and Cheyenne would
possibly be in the race. Boise City was al
ready in it. II the business mon of Helena
thought the convention would be thrust
pom them, they we're vastly mistaken.
Col. Botkin also spoke of the vast wealth
represented among the delegates to the
Salt Lake congress. He had heard.vsry
feeble echoes here Of what was creating
great interest in other parts of the country.
The growth of the northwest depended on
irrigation. The limit of agricultural posi-
bility had been reached unless some prac-
tical plan was devised for the reclamation
of the arid lands. Any proposition look
ing to that end WAS apt to meet with
difficulties before congress. The extreme
east looked with jealousy on the growth of
the west. The middle vests interests were
largely in the production of cereals, n
that section would look with disfavor on
any project for on increase in the produc-
ton Of grain. If they went before con-
gress with any plan for the reclamation Of
the arid lands, n fifteen or twenty states
moved in a solid phalan1, he believed they
would be successful. The rush into Okla
homa showed that this country had como
near to the limit Of capacity to furnish
homes, and that the only hope lay in irri-
gatlon. no repeated, tnat montana nad
not shown the interest in the subject that
existed in other places. For that reason he
would like the next irrigation congress held
hero, and 1t would wake the people up and
help carry out some scheme for the redemp-
tion of the arid land.
II. q. Wallace offered a preamble and
resolutions setting forth that during the
season the farmers of the state had planted
the seed of the sugar beet, and that some
steps were necessary to ascertain the value
of the product; and directed the secretary
to advertise for the farmers to send sam
pies of not less than fifty pounds each, to
be in the nands of the Board of Trade not
later than October 20; and that after that
the board take steps to ascertain the value
and return to the grower the result. It was
adopted.
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