Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-11-28


to really bring about the change need.
ed, z declared delegate to this Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors f;,ngrsssg
which will meet In Washington. Dec.
4. and s. He had JUST .st,lrned from
conferences in Washington with the
Internal Waterway Commits sion, Heads
Of the department. Of agriculture ami
of commerce and labor that had open
cd his eyes to the progress made to-
ward true conception of the bills of
the Rivers and Harbors committees
Congress will not again make appro.i
priations for tadpole bitches and OBJ
scure creeks" he added, because the.
Importance of the prof sets APPROX, d
by government engineers now are gem
orally understood; the discrepancy be-.
tween the naval bills, carrying humid
reds of millions, and the waterway
bills, will not continue The Atlantic
Deep Waterway Conference, the
Trans-Mississippi Commercial Cen
gross in Oklahoma, the meetings alnr z.
the upper Missouri river, the Fort
Wayne, Ind, massmeeting, the Ohio
Valley Improvement Association and
other representative gatherings have
shown that cast, west, north am,
south will demand the governments
tardy attention to the canals and riY-
ers needed-to-solve the problem Of AIDE.
quate and cheap transpo rtation.
New National Park
Perhaps there viii be thanksgiving
if the plans of Col John s. Cooper
of this city, for a national park at Ike
head waters of the Mississippi in;
Minnesota are not to be aband oned, in
! spite Of the death of Col. Cooper. In
behalf of the Minnesota Park ard
Forest Associa tion whose real heal-
quarters have, been Colonel Cooper's
flaw Office in the Tacoma building, he
| had planned to go to Washington
again to urge upon the next congress
Liz piojCSI " Which, lIS 5tlIu Given HI
lpetus, that OF setting apart a great
domain some 100000 Of primeYal
forest, dotted with lakes. Longfellow's
| Land of Hiawatha.' ~ Colonel Cooper
had so familiarized himself with the
region itself by his annual outings
there, and had collected such a fund
1 of reasons to overcome the timidity of
! congress about keeping any land away
1 from settlers, that he felt confident
that at last he would win the day.
Now others are interesting themselves
in the project and it may not die with
its principal champion. The first
step win be recruiting the member
ship of the association. The CORE spon-
dsnce with Clifford Pinchot, chief OF
| the forestry division Of the depart
ment of agriculture, will furnish inn
portant data far a revival Of interest
Lin the organization and its progress.
/ Pullman Stockholders Thankful Il
This years Thanksgiving day should
be a joyful anniversary for stockhold-
ers of the 1oO,oOO,OOO Pullman com
pany, who were recipients a year ago
Of a stock dividend Of sz6 900, 900 on
which stock, as well as their previous
holdings, they will have dividends Of
lis per cent. The original capitali-
1 zation of the company, $336 ,000, 900, has
4 rolled UP during the last nine years
1 by means of stock dividends from
surplus profits above 8 percent divi-
dend rate, to the present imposing
figure The past year showed some
j gains as result of the 2-cent- annie
laws, for many people felt they could
afford the comfort of Pullmans be
Il cause OF their savings IN carfare, the
increase IN patrons being 10 percent
Meanwhile the sleeping car porter
has eked out his very modest pay b.