The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-27
GROWTH Of west
IS HILLS THEME
Central Figure of Dry Farming
Congress Head of the Great
Northern Railway.
TRANSPORTATION AND
GROWTH OF POPULATION
New Problems That Must Be
Faced as Country'S Con-
ditiOns Change.

BILLINGS, Mont, Oct. 26-That big
fight is TO be made TO change the name
of the Dry Farming Congress became
apparent at the very first session Of the
fourth annual meeting which convened
here today. The movement cropped out
half dozen times and is certain 10 be
feature OF every business session un-
Ill il is settled one way or tho other.
Suggestions for suitable substitute for
She word dry are forthcoming, but
oono seem TO suit all tho delegates.
Somo want it to be scientific, - while
others favor the term ''practical. -
The opening sessions were largely at
tended and were of great interest TO the
delegates. The first session was taken
no with the addresses of welcome, the
chief Of which WAS that OF Governor
Norris
Preston d. Moss, chairman Of the
Montana Board of Control, also vel
coined the delegates.
Hill Central Figure.
lanes j. Hill. chairman Of the board
of directors of the Great Northern
,ailwav. who was the central figure
nf the morning session, made 2 very
friendly talk, calculated TO aid the dry
farming movement and incidentally nc
sounded . few words OF warning. lie
said in part;
81 feel more at home in farmers
crowd than | do anywhere else; Al
tbounh not a member OF the Methodist
church have attended il a great many
times. and there is one thing learned,
thev all reserved the privilege of talk,
ing back. aud |, like them, feel that !
have the privilege and as long as
can hang on 10 il, | hope 10 DO IT.
. "Thc development of the west Is too
big subject for us TO handle today but
We NAV cover a very few points IL
benan with the fur trade, Later tho
discovery of gold led advcnturesomo
spirits 10 the Rocky mountains. from
hcyopd ;hcgCariboo district, 10 Mexico
remember when the first expedition
coming 10 Montana was tuIuod nack ny
inc hostile Indians somewhere west OF
the Misso8Fi.riNer- The next wear ,heI
found their way through, ana ! a,n uIs Is
orc cf those who want TO bury Tue ole
timers. [ have the greatest respect
for them. TIE women who sat IN the
stage coaches all the way from torinue
IN Helena were angels. Some OF YOU
nay mi Lnov, where CoTinnc Is; H. Is
down near Salt Lake; it was the Jump
iag % place.
Growth OF Montana.
"Latcr when the placer gold mines
4 anve Uav 10 silver and copper, MOD
lana. probably as much as any olhcl
4 of The mineral states showed a develop
ment until iodav of all the states III
I this country Montana stands IN tne
trout in the production of some or inc
II 1,nr,iprS and II has
II served grnd purpose, IT. is serving l'S
4 Good purpose. because il enabled those
Z who came here 10 pay higher prices, To
L nav, il necessary. $20 n sack for flour.
y Yen could not have lived in The cnun.
n iry if vou had 10 make your living of
III the cultivation of the soil and at that
Il lime Later ihc Northern PacIhc RAJ
2 way was hmilt through the northwest.
N Thc men tha, worked on the line from
4 morning lutil night aud from n1ght un-
I'll morning--thcir lives We're IA danger
/ from hostile Indians aud their camp
SI was guarded by United States troops.
n aud Il took a great deal OF faith 10
~ hnili in those days; and long weary
al years of waiting and years OF failure
crsued. and we look down Oh the North
crn Parihc and sec II marvellous work,
Wei equipped on Il fine track from end
10 end and we are apt to forget that
Il v
~ io1 had not the people, You might
j rpi railroad in 10 garden of Eden
aDd # there were nobody there but
:: Ndam and Exc it would be Il failure.
al Gives Word of Advice.
ss.sal Now IL is easy 10 hujld a railroad
NJ IN Montana and YOU want a good many
- niles of railroad that YOU have not
ptj HOW, and If | may Just speak word
III q OF advice, he good ncighb"rs TO your
4 h ,ailroad and depend upon jt they will
- pe good neighbcrs 10 Won, because he
D. ioie incy can get one dollar of prod.
ncts. or get IT out of your products
you have got 10 earn ii and pay for
,Ad y, ana they would no more inquire YOU
lsws and they would no more DESTROY your
ioa power 10 produce than tho father oi
p'@'I good family would DESTROY or impan
=, me strength or health Of his children
~, n sou are not our children, but We are
les ~ the same boat with you. and wC
ts~1plve got 70 prosper with YOU or wc
as' Inare got To he poor With you,
an And the development Of TIC wos
IN TIC past: let US relegate il to thI
past, and tho development that we IN,
,aJle concerned with TODAY is the dr
eNe, seiYpment OF the west III the futur,
usiI' IN the very near fnture,
Growth OF Population.
,s Il, ~ we increase orr population q
NnS Increased, or even at z lowe
T. NJ, VIC would have 10 figure cxactl,
- lnc basis of 100000 emigrantg pc
Enhunl, and we have not had YEA
khSe l9Q2 that it has not cxccedc,
,,,1J,h,ahh' and some wears il has run n
QES'P,Sn as one and quarter million o
,hsa".., h. out take it a, 100000 and III
~ Tlorou ial a. increase TO 1850 VIC would hay
ck vRyer 29oo00,ooO of people. Now. wber
horts b. ,heY 90 and what will they do
III. ytiople Sometimc$ say ] am Dessj
Addir, 1dsn, 1dm, J am not, ! have full con
Jop fo "ye cye mat our country today with no
a. le, can support and and 80 snnrny IN" SqnnT n
, Ne'Io on OF hye times our present popnIa
Gho 9ho then VIC would not bc crowd
ne our state of Rhode Island, whic
WV dhe bEeiy b6%y = manufacturing state. an
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