The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-05
MADE A GRAND SHOWING
Exceeds Larger States in the
Number of Volunteers.
UNDER THE SECOND CALL
Montana May Not Be Permitted to Fur
nish More Troops = Responded Zoe
Enthusiastically to the First Call.
Soil Problems in the West.
Washington bureau Of the Standard,
No. 1l15. &, Street. n N.

No. 1918, q street, n. W.
washington. June Montana has
made a magnificent showing in the
Spanish war. In the number of troops
already in the field she exceeds many
larger states of the union In proper
ton to her population. Montana stands
next to Wyoming in the number of
troops furnished. Wyoming's seven
companies of rough rider bring her
average above that of Montana. Un-
DER the second call and by the enlist
ments of extra cavalry troops and en-
sineers Montana may yet be brought
to the front place in the. states that
have exceeded their proportion of SOL
diers for the war.
M~ontana's infantry regiment and her
-FOUR troops of cavalry will soon be
widely separated. This is a big, round
world the East and West Indies
are many thousands of miles apart.
Inc present chances are that the rough
riders will be doing business in Cuba
before the infantry boys are landed in
the Philippines. although the latter are
already on the Pacific en- route and the
riders have not yet left camp.
1t Is not yet definitely known how
the second call troops will be distrib-
uted. But there is a very strong prob
ABILITY that the great majority of them
viii be utilized to al existing regi-
ments and companies to the maximum,
instead of adding to the number of
regiments. 1t has been enormously
assumed that under the second call
Montana would be asked for troops In
the proportion that rs is to 125 of those
furnished under the first call. But his
is by no means. certain. The fact is
that I'm furnishing an entire regiment
as her quota the state got away be-
yond her proportion. This Ices not
tax into consideration her -four cav
airy troops with Grigsby's independent
regiment. 1t will easily be seen III
If all the states of the union had fur
nished troops in proportion to Mon
tana's response to the first call the
first call would have brought out about
half a million troops.
This fact may operate against the
state in the second call, although both
senators are working hard to get the
state a chance to make as good a
showing under the second as in re-
Spouse to the first call. 1t will also
tend to diminish the number of Mon
ana companies in Col. Lee Nantes
tentative regiment. There is yet no
certainty that the Mantle cavalry will
be called out. This is not due to any
lack of desire on the part of the sena-
tor or any failure on the part of the
mountain states to urnish troopers.
Senator Mantle has been rendered
many companies of trooper from the
different mountain states. If the regi-
ment Is not called it will be due to
the fact hat Montana and her sisters
of the undesirable West" responded
too enthusiastically to the first call.
AS is well known i'm Montana Major
Martin Maginnis was a gallant Min
nesota officer in the rebellion and dis
tinguished himself at Gettysburg. Dur
ing his visit to the city he met many
old comrades with whom he served
during the old war. and talked with
several of them about the new one.
Adjutant General Corbin asked him If
he could raise a regiment in Montana.
,'Of course" said Major Maginnis, II
can do il and will do ii IL necessary,
but l don't know that l am aching for
a chance to get back into the service"
Milton Whitney, chief OF the division
of soils of the department of agricul-
ture. in an article for the Department
Year Book, gives tables showing the
relative rainfall and humidity at a
number of places in the West toward
which he thinks particular attention
should be directed as presenting inter-
esting soil problems. Among these are
Miles City and Bozeman. Chief Whit
ney says: LAS a rule, soil problems in
the extreme West are simpler ana
easier to study han anywhere else in
the country. In the first place. the
soils themselves are more uniform in
their texture, and the climatic condi-
tions are more stable. Hilgard has
called attention to the fact that. under
the conditions prevailing where the
rainfall is scanty, rocks have disinte-