Judith Gap journal., 1909-04-23
FACTS FOR PROSPECTIVE SETTLERS.

MARION SMALL, BUSINESS MANAGER
FACTS FOR PROSPECTIVE SETTLERS.
1t was timely and good advise which
the representatives of the immigration
departments of the various railway
companies gave to the publicity con-
vention in Helena this week says the
Helena Montana Lookout of April 10.
Settlers who are worth the trouble to
get are not to be attracted by palpably
exaggerated stories of resources writ
ten by gentlemen who rely upon their
imagination for their knowledge. 1t
would be public misfortune rather
than benefit to the state to attract
within its borders with purpose of set
tlement great number of people who
have been misinformed in regard to
the real opportunities and who are
wholly uniformed in respect to the
conditions and qualifications essential
to successful utilization of actual re-
sources.
able to settlers in Montana is adapted
exclusively to what is broadly desig-
mated as dry farming. Dry farming
is as different from the ordinary farm
ing in the states of the east and the
middle west as the average land spec
ulatOrs' prospectus is different from
the truth. 1t will not help to develop
the state to engage in enterprise cal
culated to swindle the people whose
permanent residence and continuing
prosperity is necessary to such devel-
opment.
These immigration agents of the
railway companies are wise in exper-
fence as we'll as in human seltishness.
They understand that it is worse than
waste of time and money in the settle
ment of any region to impose cOndi-
tiOns upon the immigrants which in-
sure failure to the majority of them.
They know that the most desirable
citizens in a new country are those
induced to come by assurance of sue
cess from their relatives or former
neighbors who have preceded them.
AS Mr.. Mott tersely stated it, one sat-
isiied settler will bring half Il dozen
qualified to initiate his success where
one dissatisfied and discontented i'm
migrant will dSsuade Il dozen or more
frem coming ut all.
The work of educating the average
eastern farmer to tit him for agricul-
tural pursuits in the semi-arid Sec
tions of the state involves much
greater task, requiring n much higher
order Of intelligent effort, than the
work Of inducing him to settle upon
a tract Of land OF that character. 1t
il doubtful ii the state publicity agents
will be able to secure or prepare II doe
ument better calculated to show the
actual resources Of the state, on the
one hand, or to prepare the newcomer
for the requirements which he must
meet, on the other. than is contained
In Bulletin No. - Of the MOntan,
Agricultural College experiment sta
ton. entitled dry Farming Investi
cations III Montana" 1t is official
1t is the product OF expert knowledge
and practical experiment. 1t show
the possibilities in II series of photo
graph illustrations which people ot al
natiOnalities may understand, an
proves it's facts with the figures of 1t
suits accomplished. 1t is cOlnlDa II:
lively brief, exhaustive OF the bes
knowledge of the subject to date, an
tells the story in plain matter-of-fa.
form. Unquestionably the cOllee
authorities would be pleased to pc
nit it's production, and great number
of the document could be produced !;
comparatively little cost. Such do
ument might cause some people
hesitate about undertaking agricu
tural industry under conditions
changed from those with which til.
are familiar but it might save tho
sands from Fastening out of the sta
more rapidly than they were persuade
to enter it by glowing description
even actual conditions which left the
in ignorance Of others more impu
tant to be understood before they 4;
hope for successful enterprise alol
the lines of their chosen avOcation
Montana.
A JUDGE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.