Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-26
TRIBUTE TO COL. MOTT.

A recent issue of Milwaukee
newspaper refers to C. W. Mott, who
leaves the n P. service as general
immigration agent Jan. l, and to the
varied resources and accomplish
ments necessary to make a successful
immigration agent. Mr.. Mott has been
identified with the road for 16 years
and has done much towards getting
settlers into the new northwest. His
present plans are not slater but he
may identify himself with some en-
terprise in Milwaukee, where he has
long made his home. Speaking of
his work the article referred to says:
''Mr Mott has contributed in no
small degree to the wonderful growth
of that country. In the early days
of western railroading, when the
Northern Pacific first laid it's steel
finger across the northwest, Mr.. Mott
began his task of inducing people to
leave the east and come to this new
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lar with the making and selling of
machinery and with the people and
conditions in all parts of the country.
During his sixteen years in the
occupation of peopllng the vast bolt
which is contiguous to the Northern
Pacific lines, Mr.. Mott has watched
and aided in economic metamorphos-
is-from the crude to the finished,
from cactus to grain; from arid
wastes to fertile farms, from tank
stations to cities.
''The fashioning of this vast coun-
try made possible by the projection
of transcontinental line, to develop
ed productive zone, is in some degree
the work of the pioneer immigration
agents, those leaders who planted the
who, by their toll, nourished the rail-
roads into prosperity. In this work
Mr.. Mott contributed full measure,
being the earliest worker in this d.
rection in the northwest.
with the great diversity of re-
sources, environment and opportuni-
ties along the Northern Pacific, the
problem has been to classify persons
to find out those who will fit the
best in agriculture, in mining, in the
town or village and in the expanding
cities. In the success of this assort-
ing process has been the success of
the immigration bureau Of the North
ern Pacific.
I'm this work, his associates say,
Mr. Mott has been singularly for
tunate. Through his auspices hun
dreds of men and families have been
settled along the vast continental
line; have settled and are satisfied
and happy.
when Mr. Mott first took up the
immigration work, more than de-
cade ago, extending westward was
long line of railway, tapping land
of untold and varied resources, while
to the eastward were lands where
people dwelt-following the lines of
least resistance by remaining where
they were in contented apathy. Be-
fore the passenger tickets were sold,
before the merchandise could be ship
ped out and the grain and minerals
shipped back, there had to be people
that was the immigration agents
probes.
"a few years ago it was the i'm
migrant vino was escorted west. Last
spring it was the capitalist.
''Under Mr.. Motifs chaperonage a
party Of fifty of the leading business
men of Chicago we're taken over the
Northern Pacific on a special train.
They visited the towns and cities
along the line, 1earneds much, thought
more and now those towns are be
ginning to feel the food OF capital
flowing toward their resources"