The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-05-12
INCLUDES SEVEN NORTHWEST
STATES AND ST. PAUL.
ITS HEADQUARTERS.
THfLEACUE Is ORGANIZED
Big Land Show AssUed for the TWIN
cities-ResoIutions Passed oppos-
ina Federal Conservation
Policy.

Helena. Going on record as
opposing the present government
policy Of conservation in the with
drawal OF public lands. the Northwest
Development league was launched.
The league includes the states OF
Minnesota. North Dakota, South Da.
kota. Montana, Idaho. Washington.
and Oregon. At a meeting Of the ex-
ecutiye committee St. Paul was select
ed as the headquarters Of the organ
ization.
II was decided TO raise s32, 1000 for
the support of the league and for the
prosecution Of its work. OF this sum.
$4,000 has been pledged by Seattle
and $500 by the Twin Cities rep
resentatives. The remainder OF the
sum is to be raised by the other states
included in the league.
officers were elected as follows:
President, Lewis Pennwtll Of Hell
ena.
Vice President, Montana. l.. NJ. New
man, Great Falls; Idaho, State Senator
Fox of Coure de Alene; Washington,
Dennis w. King of Wenatchee: Ore
gon. William Hanley Of Burns; Min
nesota. J. II. Dyke Of Duluth; South
Dakota, s. r. Wesley of Pierre: North
Dakota. John Gruegger of Williston.
Treasurer, II. c. Sampson OF Spo-
kane.
Executive committee: Montana, II.
W. Reynolds of Lewistown; Idaho,
W. NJ Morgan Of Moscow; Washing
ton, r. X. Wilson of Seattle; Oregon,
c. c. Chapman of Portland; Mime
sofa, c. l.. Kluckhohn of st. Paul;
North Dakota, +. Y. Sarles of Hills
boro; South Dakota, to be appointed.
The secretary of the organization is
TO be selected later. and rumor points
TO the selection of Hoke Smith, for
mer Minneapolis newspaper man. now
connected with the Great Northern,
who has had much to do with the pre-
liminary work of the league meeting
which resulted in success.
A land show Is to be held later and
this show will be held in Minnesota,
either in st. Paul or Minneapolis, OF
both. The organization of the league
marks a new and distinctive chapter
in the development OF the Northwest
II was decided to hold two meetings
Of the league each year. The June
meeting is to be held in Seattle, while
the land show is TO be held in the Twir
Cities. After this year the June meet
ings will be held in one of the cite:
of Oregon, Montana, Washington o.
Idaho.
Conservative Conservation.
The resolutions committee which
prepared the platform upon which thu
/ league will stand has its own troubles
There was n disposition TO take con
/ servation by the horns and go afte
| II rough.shod. The people OF the Yves
/ appear TO favor conservation. but the.
are critical of the governments meth
DDS in bringing 1t about.
President Hill of the Great Northern
referred to this feeling when he sal,
that 300 100000 acres had been with
drawn by the government, an are
larger than the original Is states
lust breathing spots" as he sal
castically referred to IL.
There was a disposition to take u
western matters in the resolutions an
sensational expressions were antic
pated. but cooler counsels prevaile,
The resolutions did say that the leagu
is opposed to the present policy /,
conservation, so far as the policy /,
withdrawing public lands indiscrim
nately from public use, is concerne,