The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-01-25
ABOUT MONTAN \.
What DR.. Winship Says of {" he Treasure
State"

State.
A few months ago DR.. A. Z. Winship
of Boston visited Montana and in re-
cent number OF the Journal of EJuca
ton of which he is the editor, he give $
some Interesting facts about the Stale
as it impressed him, and he speaks ee
pecialy of his visit to Boza man aid OF
the college and the city schools there.
Some of the facts he gives are pretty gem
orally known, but will surprise many OF
the eastern people. THE Treasu,e S at
is ten times as large as southern New
Eng Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut" DR.. Ninship says
''Boston's entire population could 60 TO
Montana and every family could have
1000 acres. All New York City could
go to Montana and every family have
100 acres. The entire population of the
United States could go TO Montana and
every family have five-acre garden
The population of the State will have to
be IL times as great as it was at the last
census, or 5000, 900, before the average
family will be entitled to less than 100
acr, on the average.' Continuing, DIR.
Winshlp says: ''There is certainly abun-
dant opportunity for something 10 hap
pen in the Treasure State"
1.-The popular thought of Montana, ="
he goes on TO say, us of mountains with
copper ore 1000 feet down, and f1ocks of
sheep ranging over the mountain sides.
The public at large has another thought
coming, for last year the wheat crop of
Montana would have given every family
in Boston or st. Louis $50 bushels of as
good wheat as was ever harvested.
'Montana's future is not alone in her
mines, pastures, ranches, fields orch
ards, for her water power makes cleo
tricity cost next to nothing as power for
her factories In this connection, DR..
Winship gives little boost to Great
Falls, the Power City, he calls her, and
then says: "There is fall of 500 feet
in ten miles in the Missouri river at this
point, which means practically limitless
power and it is on duty 1865 days in the
year. Would that someone would ade-
quately sound the praises of the Missouri
from Three Forks in Montana, where it
begins its career, to the Mississippi in
St. LOUIS
Speaking of some things that espec-
! tally interested him in the different cities
he visited, DR.. Winship said:
''Another surprise is Bozeman. with
its agricultural college, which President
Hamilton has magnified right royalty,
and which Superintendent R. j. Cunning
ham has rationale d beyond any other
city OF its size in that he has the record
| for attendance upon the National Educa-
ton association in summer and winter,
when the miles travelled by the force is
considered.
''His boys and girls are breaking rec
ords in many things. Bessie Davenport,
II years old, raised in little home gar
den and pedGled out to the neighborhooo
in eight-pound bags, SIT worth of pota-
toes this season. have never see: bet
ter results from art teaching than that
! by Jenny Lind, nor as good results in
music with every child as from the teach
ing of Alberta Smith. When little
first grader, SIX weeks in school, VERT
able monotone, could not say edo" in the
the right pitch she had him say "Morn-
ing papers for sale, and he was not a
monotone then but called it out on her
key"
In referring to the State educational
institutions, DR.. Winship naturally thinks
of the teachers, and he says: '"The State
normal school at Dillon has a Herculean
task IN attempting to educate and train
teachers in its far away school for a
otate as large as the SIX new England
States, New York, New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland. and West Virginia. 1t
is as though normal school in Morgan
town, West Virginia. should attempt to
supply teachers for an area as great as
those eleven States. And there are cities
with from so to 100 teachers nesrly as
far from Dillon as Boston is from WASH
ington. OF course Dillon cannot pro-
duce adequate quantity, but it can and
does produce the requisite quality, and