The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-04-10

of the rural settlement idea, but is
also editor of 1.-THE Talisman," a pa
per devoted to rural settlement work
and farm life, published in Chicago. It
is said that to him much credit is due
Tor the passage of the reclamation
act, under which thousands Of acres
in the arid west have been reclaimed
by the government.
The views shown in Illustrating
the lecture depict scenes on various
reclamation projects throughout the
west, both government and private
enterprises.
The purposes Of the Rural Settle
ments association Of which Mr.. Max
well is executive chairman and man
ager as set forth In the articles of in
corporation, are as follows:
Purposes Of Association.
To promote, establish, carry on and
maintain gardencraft, homecraft, man
ua1, Industrial and farm training
schools, demonstration garden farms,
cooperative farm instruction colonies,
suburban homecroft villages, garden
cities and rural settlements, and thus
open the gateway Of opportunity
through which a steady stream OF hui
manfty may pass from the congested
cities back to the country or to sub
urban rural life, where every family
will have its homecroft, so that the
masses of our people may be made
more efficient. prosperous and intelli-
gent by surrounding them with the
moral and healthful environment Of
homes Of their own on the land.
To check the drift to the larger
cities and promote the relief Of over
crowded areas and secure q wider dis
tribution of the population over the
land; and to that end, to encourage
the tendency Of manufacturers to re.
move their works from congested cen
tiers to the country, and to foster the
industrial and commercial upbuilding
of the small cities, towns and country
villages, and the development of trade
and establishment Of industries in
such communities, the building of
good roads, the Improvement of the
rural home and its environment, the
betterment Of rural schools and the
enlargement Of home opportunities.
To awaken a widespread public in
terest in the general objects above
set. forth, and in the close settlement
and intensive cultivation of land and
better methods Of agriculture, and IN
forestry and tree planting, and the
establishment Of national forest plan.
in every state, and In the. re-
OF Grid, swamp and v
flowed lands, and generally in the
conservation and development Of all
the internal resources of the country.
by disseminating information relating
thereto through the press and by pub
lie lectures and addresses and the cir.
culation of publications.
To- acquire, reclaim, irrigate, i'm
prove, subdivide, COLOMBO, occupy.
own, hold, use, sell or lease real prop
erty Of all kinds; to acquire, hold, own,
use and to sell and dispose Of, in any
manner, personal property OF all
and to build, erect and con-
struct houses, buildings and struc-
lures of all kinds; to lay out and
maintain roads, bridges, highways,
streets, sidewalks, avenues and
to cultivate and care for trees.
vines, shrubbery, ornamental gardens.
orchards and vineyards; and to build,
acquire, maintain, operate, sell, lease,
transfer or otherwise dispose Of water,
gas, electric, irrigation, drainage, sew
erage and transportation works and
systems.