The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-11-02
Newman
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(CoIlllutu 14oil1 ASc oiiS.t
quired; International complications over
water rights had discouraged enthu5i-
astic pioneers of the movement to give
regular and permanent watering TO
Northern Montana; Stockmen cared not;
townspeople were listless; those who
already had water coralled in the priv
ate bitches and reservoirs were alto
gcthcr content and, in some cases, III IL
evidently gleeful over the apparent
Wreckage of the whole great plan. Then
suddenly, some unlookcd-for force. some
big and unexpected thing developed about
the project. The Upper Milk River u
nited Irrigation association were formed
on a sterner basis and given persistency.
The Milk River United Irrigation as
ISOLATION WAS brought to meet in Havre
Wisdom sent personal friends Of the pre-
sidcnt to Washington, men VITO knew
what they were talking about, and this
particular president, having been of the
West heard and understood, With the
result that the stOcllman and farmer,
made up this Invaluable committee ctmc
back with assurance in publicly express
scd promise of the chief executive If
the nation that THE government viii
| advance the irrigation of MIX River
valley over all of the simillr projects
being entertained by the reclamation
service" Thus was Il dying plan ga
vanized into new life by a personality
that knew what to do and how to do
| it and hoWto get tie right men to do
| 1t. There have been other conference S
been wide and voluminous litigation in
augurated by advice of the national co.
ernment; there has been steady, per
sistent, undaunted work pursued 20
bring about the raising of the wild
range land of Northern Montana to the
fertility that is it's own when TIE land
shall have been made moist; there have
been those things done that have start
ed the sound Of pick and shovel ant
!, scraper at work and cluck to teams on
the initial canal of the most mammoth
nterpr!se-excepting the far away Pa
mama working-upon which the Z. S. A
has ever engaged. Back of all these pre-
= Eminaries, back of all these conferenc
es, back, it might be said, OF tn
work going on and TO go on has beer
little over five feet of humanity, SPAR
D set and stoldly built, far seeing an
l public spirited courageous before a
things and ever active-L. Newman. pre-
9 sident of the Milk River United Irr
cation association.
e Settlers on 100000 acres OF land wh'c
Z will be reclaimed III Milk River vale
IS In the next two years may give the
, thanks largely TO L. Newman. Setter
IL on the 100000 other acres which will t
. brought into state for cultivation durin
II the following two years should remen
IS Der Newman. Husbandrymen OH the mi
lions OF acres in Northern Montana tn:
are eNentualIS 10 u, H''i'S0 ~ ''iN 20
= tickled by the harrow ard brought
/ increased productiveness and worth
l.. tn. worlds great economies may than
IL fully think of Newman Just now the {
e. mocrats of Chouteau county-and ,sor
al others-ara insisting that the cam
a Newman has shown entities him to mo
G. immediate honors. They say that I
~ man who was twice so easily cleo
10 mayor OF Fl tvre car be elected as easl
i'll in Chouteau county and that they n
Ill going to put him up in the forensic tt
at the state capital.