The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24
DISCUSSION OF METHOD
Annual Meeting of the Horti-
cultural Society.
ADDRESS BY PROF. EMERY
The Wonderful Natural Resources o.
Montana ard Especially the Bitter
Root Valley-Many Cues
tons Under Debate.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Hamilton. Feb. 23.-The annual meet
;. oe +,,o ,,o,+,,o t1or.,o,,t,,r,l
ms VI 'iie -'o'i'@t'" A'oi
clety convened at the Lucas opera
house at 2 O'Clock this afternoon with
a pood attendance which will he large
l.. .,
y '''ei case" 'o-i'ioiio"'
was called to order by President EN-
cry ana Mayor McCrackln was present
ana dellVered a rev nearly words or
to the city and trusted that the meet
ing would be of great benefit to every
one individually and also to the inter
ests represented.
PRESIDENT Emery responded and said
tnat taking OF ffult-sroWlnS to people
Oh the Bitter Root valley was something
IKE preaching the gospel to Christians.
he SAID that 1T had once been remark
ed that II by any chance the pilgrim
ia'ners hadaanded on the Pacitc shores
instead or the Atlantic, the latter part
or the country would have been in a
comparatively primitive SAFE, as the
capabilities of the West were so far
superior that civilization and develop
ment would nave fingered mere. He.
spoke or the Bltter Root valley as
among most favored spots in the West
he was not one VINO sougEs 10 nitro
duce politics into meeting OF this kind,
put right here he wished to say that
ne was against TIRE expansion so much
now talked about When the time came
when the mines of Montana, the agri-
cultural land OF Montana and the hort-
cultural possibilities or Montana were
tully developed and when all OF our
own country was similarly developed,
the country would pc rlcher ana greater
tAan II 1t owned every isle IN every
sea. lie spoke OF the actlon OF the state
legislature IN passing the horticultural
phi and expressed MS pleasure IN meet
ing IN town Whlch was sucn mon
ument to the enterprise and public
splr1tsohess OF one man as this was to
MT. Daly. he spoke or the TACT that
he had received letter from Mr..
flelds, secretary OF the former state
horticultural society, lnqulrlng about
the authority for the organization of
another state society, and had answered
it and hoped the gentleman would be
present. The constitution and bylaws
of the association were read for the in
of the new people.
Mr.. Bandmann chairman of the COM
m.'.tee on legislation, then gave a brief
synopsis of the passage of the bill by
the assembly. The committee of the
could not at first see any merit
in the bill but when the friends of the
mea sure resnnnded IN calls for +b.,;r
presence and talked to that committee
the members themselves soon saw the
point and the measures was ,:riumnh
antly passed through both houses NV
big maiorities. and within a few hours
after it's massage the envernor had
signed the hill He felt that the futura
would Justify the massage of tha hill
and that though the act of tho sssen,-
hlv tlo .nn1a ~ -,Jon+.,a viii ~ s,aa,
Iehrated fhroueho,,t 10 r,ho,a wnri1
&C the cleannst .nnIe grow, Tha 80 -
ident .nno,,,,nad th,t ~ ~
tha oon,n,tttaes =, ' ~ ne Muuiu nanle
D.n. @ ,I..i, sese,oi
,a1i raa a., VI missoula reau
80 a,.a w popt VI VI chaiuiis Win
ositsi oiops, Nil!ci was careluily llsl-
oati., ~ ,; al,u Hilioii pious y. out in,ei-
ss.it1S uls. ussioli. MI coipilie OF rat
;.eau SUM VI ms eApeLishce Win pigs
~ .ne lila oiclaiu anu sald plss cut ms
sou,S tlee9 uoWh, pu. thousht tney
Mnuia no. !lJule .ne oloer trees he
ashea Iisslueit Emery ABOUT cheml-
"a al ea' ,iiiHeSs anu n also ABOUT sum
liiel ldlio" WI me president thought
, suml'iiel iaii1M ilis was iiut as INJURIOUS
lieie do III Enslanu' out was OF the
opli,i'li INA, ~ was pest 10 work all
iaiu Oil one ldrnl tnan 70 let one or |
~. ne Two larlhs ne ldle. Chemlcai Ter
"eie '"' eApehsiVe LOT Moh-
'"I,a'
n, n. w. Nicoi was Ior cream cultiVation
liist' iast anu az the tlhle. rigs VIII
LIS ie1iii ~ elililo d Tree aIter irult;
JUS llIe1nou was, 70 keep PIGS out and
:. v; eeus upMii. ne favored cieah cultlva-
ION without other crops. He regarded
~ as ne mois. 'nins Ihat couid