Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-27
PRIEST. TAFT TAKES
TRIP UNDERGROUND
At Butte Entered Cage With
Hammond and Went Down
1000 Feet.
VISITED WASHOE SHELTER.
Tells People of Anaconda Comfort
And Happiness of Individual That
Makes Great Nation.

Butte. Mont. Sept. 27-Presiden.
TAFT had a decided limp in his walk
when he alighted from his special train
here today lie sprained tendon on
his foot before leaving Beverly, but
had suffered no bother from il until
yesterday when. after 10 days OF con-
slant going. with little or no rest. the
foot became swollen Or. Richardson.
who accompanies the president. is
treating the strained tendon The hurt
is not serious. but is quite uncomfort-
able.
The president reached here shortly
before II o'clock, and was met at the
station by a band and a long line OF
automobiles. After speaking in the
court house square he was taken out
TO the famous Old Leonard copper mime.
and entering cage with John HaN,s
Hammond, was taken down q damn
and darksome shaft 10 the 200 foot
loved. where he saw the miners at
work ia the midst Of drills, air com
pressors and all the other parapher-
MALTA of deep underground labor.
VISIT TO WAsHoE SHELTERS.
Anaconda. Mon, Sept. 25.-After a
iiying trip through the famous Washos
smclters OF the AmaIgamated Conner
company on the hills back of Anaconda
this morning. President Taft motored
INTO this city az $3.50 O'Clock and made
brief address from the Central
square.
senator Carter met the pre- sident at
Silver Bow Junction a little after 7
O'Clock this morning. Senator Di4on
and Postmaster Gen. uitchcork iniua,l
a R4t q Il
While here the president visited his
cousin. Or. Samuel ToTey Dt1a. Tor
Few minutes. Dr. Ortun mother
ana MI. Tafts mother were sisters.
TALK AT ANACONDA
In his address here the president
said.
1T is a great pleasure FOR me TO
meet you this morning in q city which
l have never visited before and which
presents conditions very different fron
those which have obtained in any city
/ know.
4 have Just been visiting your
! wonderful copper producing works and
have been initiated into a knowledge
OF the process which has gone on I'M
proving until Il would seem now as II
you took everything out Of the air and
ana out OF the ground and made II use
full Your city presents a picture or
comfortable homes | don't see any
tenements here. | don't see any narrow
places that prevents the expansion OF
lungs or the production or growth OF
children. The school and the children
before them are a scene that awakens
in the heart or every American and
every lover Of his country an enthus-
iastic prospect OF what may be ex-
pected OF the next generation, and
assume that you here are quite like the
towns that | have visited. You are
looking forward to doubling your pop
ulation in the next three or four years
and are looking forward TO an increase
IN wealth and an increase IN prosper
ity, OF which there Is every indication
the country over. and OF which / am
sure you viii have your share
After an u Is not the great in
dustries. IL is not the great wealth.
but IL is the comfort and happiness Of
the individual that goes TO make up
a great nation. and no one can take the
trip that ] have been taking, no one
can go through the east and the middle
west, the far west and the Rockies and
up into this country without seeing in
every face, without receiving from
the lips or every man an indication
that he Is looking forward and not
backward. and that he Is an optinaist
and not a pessimlst. ana that he knows
that On himself and IN the constitu-
ton and makeup 81 his fellows IA tho
certainty OF progress onward which
shall uplft his people and make
America even greater country than
a. rs now"