Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-17
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IMPORTANT TO Morris. DAKOTA u,

4 IMPORTANT TO NORTH DAKOTA.
Hon. N. G.. Larimore Of Larimore5
has been Interested in the various
meetings held through the country
to promote irrigation, drainage, wat
erway improvement and other enter
prizes which will have a direct or
reflected benefit to North Dakota,
and in a recent letter to the Herald
at Grand Forks, he says of some of
the projects now pending:
The eighteenth session of the
trans Mississippi Commercial Con-
gress Will be held at Muskogee, Okla, 7
Nov. 10 to %, and it is important
that our state should be creditably
represented. Few of our people
know what has been accomplished
through the efforts of this assoeia-
ton. The Trans Mississippi Com
mercial Congress was organized in
1891 by the merging of three district
associations. The Deep Water Con-
Vention. the Western States Congress
and the Trans-M ississippi Congress.
The object was to force the National
Congress to recognize the Trans Mis-
sissippi country as a part of the
United States. Millions of dollars
were appropriated annually from the
national treasury for river and har-
Dor Improvements. The eastern
states by reason of their predomin-
ating influence in both senate and
house absorbed practically all the
!. funds of the improvement of their
rivers and harbors So far as ma
tional preparations were concern
ed the western states were not on the
map. Protests were in vain and the
members of the Trans Mississippi
Commercial Congress, realizing the
importance of the work they had in
hand. sent committee to Washing
ton to urge upon congress the neces-
sity of appropriations for the west
ern states and after many years of
determined effort on the part of the
association the national congress be-
gan to realize that the west was en-
titled to some recognition and appro-
\ priationis were made for deepening
the haFbor of Galveston. now the next
largest, if not the largest point of
export in the United States. ID
s5 The improvement of Galveston har-
Dor was Of great Importance to our
state by giving an outlet for the
wheat, corn and cotton grown in Me-
braska, Kansas, Missouri and Texas
and other tributary state, relieving
the congestion on the eastern rail-
roads and offering us an opportun-
ity to demand a lower rate of freight
for our products. Some of the mem
beers of the congressional committee
of this association are constantly in
attendance at Washington during ev-
cry session Of the national congress
to keep watch for hostile Legislation
and to get additional appropriations
If possible Ia
Congress has made appropriations
and the work is mostly done for {
six foot channel between st. Paul
and st. Louis. The most importan
81 work for North Dakota and contigu
r Gus states is the deepening of tn.
Mississippi river channel between st
Louis and New Orleans. During
conversation had with j ]. J. Hill /
" few weeks ago, Mr. Hill told me tina
with Is feet of water between 81
Louis and New Orleans he would tax
# wheat from Larimore and lay 1t dow
ri IN New Orleans for 133 cents per bush
e1 and return the barges loaded wit
lumber and pay from % to 50 pc
cent annually in dividends on tn
investment. Few of us can realf2
what a ia cent rate from North d.
CD kota 10 tfdewater means in the In
creasing value OF our farm produel
and the enhanced value Of our Tea
estate The amount could scarcel
be counted BY millions.
his DE- an age of evolution ia
NJ Co.. ssi 10 me ID ST. Louis In 1915
Mr.. Larirnere, do not care to tax
If any stock IN your barge line I'd taH
wheat I'd New Orleans, even at ]
cents per bushel, because I cannt
own tie right Of way In 1907 NJ
FIN said sTf the government woui
maintain a right Of way, free to al
with is feet Of water will tai
wheat from ST. Louis to New 0rlear
FOR one cent per busheI,' Once Il,
fact Is generally appreciated that W
ter transportation Ii only one-sixt