Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-04-26

Girl, Paul Mccormick; Wyoming, j.
B. Kendrick; North Dakota, w. l..
Richards; South Dakota; G. A. Penn
berton; Northwest Territory, w. F..
Cochran.
A Notable Cow ention.
The meeting was in many respect
one of the most remarkable in its
history of twenty years. It marked
an epoch in the stock industry of
Montana. A realization of the new
regime in the great industry of an
empire state was evident in the writ
ten addresses and papers, in the words
spoken on the platform and on the
street, in the drastic resolutions adopt
ed by the assOciatiOn-in fact every
where was written that a new con-
dition exists in Montana.
The change is not a sudden one.
It has been gradually working itself
out for years but the events of the
recent past have been following each
other swiftly and it required the
present meeting to crystalize the
knowledge that a new order of things
has arisen.
The day of the range cattle king
Is over. The poetry and romance of
the ltmitles range when thousands of
cattle rOamed over the plains and
when. one brand marked the owner
ship of millions of dollars worth OF
cattle has become memory. The
poetry and romance remain, but the
conditions are not the same.
Montana is undergoing the process
OF settlement. Her possibilities are
being realized. The state is emerging
from the chrysalis form. Cattle are
no longer supreme in Montana. Sheep
and horses and the Angora goat have
come to share the ranges. The fence
and the ownership of springs and wa.
ter supplies have fixed their arbitrary
limitations. Extensive stock feeding
Is taking the place of extensive cattle
raising. They are realizing that few.
er blOOded cattle pay better than myr.
lads Of scrub stock.
Irrigation, too, is casting it's shadow
over the range. Montana has the DOS
sfbilities of a great agricultural state
These possibilities are being realized
Stockmen Realize Changed Conditions
All these facts were everywhere in
evidence at the Miles City convention
StOckmen are not cast down by the
new conditions. They realize that ii
means an era of newer and greater
prosperity for the great inland empire
The men who have made a success
of the cattle business in Montana are
not men to be discouraged by the con.
fronting of new conditions. They pos
sess initiative and are setting them
selves to work out the new problems
Most of the old time cattle kings
no longer respond to the roll call OF
the association. A few of them, how
| ever, are left. Among those who were
present at this meeting and who still
WELD the scepteer of the cattle mon
| arch were Conrad Kohrs, Dan FLOW
erree, L. w. Stacy, John T. Murphy
T. C. Power, John Holt and Joe Brown
These men are the link between the
| old regime and the new and added
much to the romance and interest vi
the Miles City meeting.
A roundup of the men present al
this meeting is indicative of the char
acter OF the industry that has made
Montana famous. They are a fide
looking. self-respecting lot of men
Millions of wealth were represented
by the men at this meeting, yet there
was no flourish, no ostentation. Al
though many of the men present coulG
draw their checks for sums that ever
this day of fabulous wealth would Ds
large. there was no evidence that this
was gathering of monied men. Tit
millionaire cattlemen and the small
rancher joined hands in q communit,
Of interests.