Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-02-14
STATE |MM|GRAT|ON MEETING
The Executive Committee Makes Ar
rangements for a Convention
on March 10.
The Policy Will Be to Get Only De.
sirable Glasses Of Settlers,
If Possible.

mittee for this state, appointed at the
immigration convention held at st. Paul
some months ago. The committee orig
inally consisted of Paris Gibson of
st. Paul, G. E. Conrad of Kalispell,
w. P. Jordan of Miles City, S. M. Emery
of Bozeman and James II. Mills of Deer
Lodge. Prof. Emery was unable to serve
on the committee and Walter Cooper of
Bozeman was substituted. James H.
Monteath of Butte and b. II. Tatem of
Helena we're also added to the commit
tee. To these gentlemen was committed
the task of seeing that the state of Mon
tana was organized and placed in line to
| co operate with the central organization
at Great Falls All the members Of the
committee were present at Helena where
the committee met the first of this week
and continued in session for a couple of
days delberatirg on the question of how
to best organize the state and obtain the
most benefits from the tide of imm,gra-
ton which it is expected will be induced
to seek the northwest through the ef-
forts of the association. The committee
organized by the selection Of Paris Glib
son as temporary chairman and r. l..
| Clinton as secretary. l.. F. Bowen was
engaged as corresponding secretary for
80 days. The committee decided that
an immigration convention should be
held in Helena, commencing March 10,
the convention to be composed of dele
gates appointed in various ways. In the
first place the committee named one del
cgate in each county in the state, who
was given authority to name four other
de,C gates from his county who
K ok an interest in the matter
under discussion and who would be
sure to attend. G. NJ. Webster was the
delegate named in this county and to
him will be assigned the duty of naming
four ether delegates in this county. In
addition to these delegates the gov
ernor of the state has been invited to
appoint at least one delegate from each
county in the state, and the mayor of
each of the cities will be asked to name
Il delegate. Finally, all organizations,
such as the chamber OF commerce, or
board of trade N yhe various cities of
the state are invited participate in the
convention by sending one or more dele
gates. In this way it is hoped to secure
Il large and representative attendance of
the leading men in the state Interested
in its welfare at Helena on the 10th OF
next month at the convention, On that
occasion the subject matter relating to
the benefits Of immigration will
be discussed and plans formed for effect
ihG acti'e u oI@"hlHa'lohS III e&Eh OF lue
cOuh (ie7 ~ dsHisC ll7 Sthte orGariHaIlDi,
Which WIZ III iplh aC' VITA "a, '1e cehl'
organ I".''H al 81 aux He tAsC ut':1
COMMITTEES az lhrIf recount ihesIiuI IA
lielena' Ee''Su oA tH9 i,iIo"tnE maine
.V' tu' a7sIot1''op' su"!Sc' ~ me I";,-
'C@liob "a tile Col.''iS cot E1ution' -
wiz 10 cai4eo rs oht"ih 9'atG ,H'L'u&
"u't f'h' is'd'i"n a7So~'"''Uh' lHe Co
lects !u0 scope VI lhe o'Rdn'"1t'oL as He
,lneu oy IH7 "oll'Il't'e7 are apou aS 4''.
lowe Ale !f6t anu primary obltcN O.
I!e a9st'c'a''on IL hot l" ln"uce nof"r
Oh Immigrants il"" o'het STATES anu
lore'sll countries 10 con1e 10 inns stale'
OUT 10 secure such people rs the sla'e
neeuT' anu Suci' people as can proh'Aoiy
10 themselves come mere aha setNe
10 lhe STATE Inc co,hh'ltee reel
mat were Is 20 heeu III Mon
'ana aL 'he present tihe OF more wa wage
eaFhefa' 'lecIahic7 OF laporers' IheFe
are already pien'! OF lhlS class IN the
s'a,e ana When more are heeueu tnry
"Ii come Oh lhelr own acc'ru' !heS
a!so ceem IL un"lso TO encourage em'grs-
non from fore'En shores' Feehng 'hat tins
c'Hs@ Oh peopte a'so are ecafceiy Ahap'c"
10 the coha'tioGs "h'ch are e, necessary 70
WIN success IN Mon'ana' Iheif zoe" '7
that tne ma'h eHorts Of lhe ASSOCIATION
should be turned IN t"o aifsc1ohs'
flFst' 10 use an the machinery of the
central orsahlzauon 10 sdte''lse the
mineral resources 90 or the stat ana IN,
ouce men WIN sulnclent money 10 assist
ID the development OF THESE mineral re-
sources TO turh their a''enl'oh ms way
Inc committee kno" that there are toaay
| thousands pON1 mineral