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the Interior.
]. L. Truscott, vice president of the
water users association, said he spoke
only of the lower project, and that
for long years the users had seer
there was trouble, and realized it now;
that such trouble was not due to large
land owners, but to the reclamation
service, who had been in absolute con-
troll all of the time. He invited Mr..
Davis to spend a month on the pro-
ject and see if what he said was not
true. "The project is going back
ward" said MI. Truscott. "Water had
never been delivered on time in the
spring or fall until this year; that
the people who owned more than one
unit we're men who had taken the
land of others, who had been driven
and starved out, in order to try and
get even. He said he never expected
to get for his land what it had cost
him. Closing the speaker said the
whole system must be changed before
settlers we're invited in.
E. K. Moore of Harlan, praised a
private project upon which he farmed,
and said they did not want government
water.
A Williston man who said he had
been sent up to the meeting, praised
the project upon which he lived, which
it developed was handled under the
district plan.
Chas. D. Greenfield, of the Great
Northern, did not add much of value
to Mr.. Ledy's statements, except to
propose the plan for an aggressive
organization, to elect officers and pass
resolutions, and generally promote a
campaign to remove all obstacles and
settle up the project. He thought that
a resolution asking for definite esti-
mate of cost should be at once trans
mitted to the Secretary of the In
terror.
W. B. Sands of Chinook, had been
irrigating for 80 years, and spoke very
highly of the private project and of
the fertility Of the soil, saying that
he could compete with the Imperial
valley or any other irrigated district
in the world. He said he had tried,
and that a statement of the cost of
the project could not be obtained I'M
til the project was finishmed. He
thought that home markets would re-
lieve many economic hardships and
do much for the development of the
valley.
Thomas Everett of Harlan, made a
ringing speech, showing how the farm
err anywhere was getting the worst of
present conditions and saw general
relief in a buyers strike. If we should
return to the good old rule of our faith
ers, not buy anything but raise and
manufacture what we needed at home,
economic conditions would readjust
themselves, and everybody again be
prosperous. His remarks were per-
tinent to the discussion in so far as
they applied to home or local markets.
He stated that he had 200 acres of the
finest Alfalfa that ever grew, that
he would not cut, because it would
not pay the freight. Montana suf-
fered worse than any other state on
account of the high freight rates.
Milk COWS would help solve the prob
lem. During these times the farmer
that had a couple of cows paid his
interest or was out of debt, while it
did not make any difference what
others raised, they could not pay in
terest.
We should be able to show outsid-
ers where a man has made a success
on a forty acre farm, and we cannot
do so. We must go to intensive
farming, and show an example of sue
cess to those whom we invite in here.
Every town should have at least me
small dairy farm.
Committees were appointed as fol-
lows:
Resolutions-Thos. Dignan, Glas-
gov; j. L. Truscott, Glasgow; Louis
Newman, Great Falls; F. M. Burke,
Chinook; l.. C. Edwards, Malta.
Organization-W. B. Sands, Chi
nook; Tom Everett, Harlan; Leo Cole
man, Glasgow.
The committee on organization re-
ported as follows:
The name of the organization shall
be the Milk River Valley Cooperative
Association.
The officers are:
President, j. F. Kilduff, Malta.
Vice-president, L. f. Edwards, NAL
ia. Secretary, T. j. Larson, Malta.
Executive Committee, A. j. Samp-
son, Nashua; Leo B. Coleman, Glas-
gov; John David, Vandalia; J. S.
Stapler. Hinsdale; Henry Vagg, Saco;
Edwards, Malta; l.. E. Spellman,
Bowdoin; Edgar Lee, Dodson; Byron
Hurley, Wagner; C. X. Moore, Har-
Ian; F. w. Burtz, Chinook; John
Acher, Zurich; VIM. Butler, Scobey;
j. c. Konk, Coburg.
The resolutions committee returned