Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

TINS thlng-that many lines of industry
10 Montana are today operating profit
ABLY, where one year ago all limos
were not only losing money but look
ing dlsmally into the future, There
seemed then no way out. All men
nowadays are looking optinisticallv
toward the yea 1923. The change OF
spirit TO one or optimism has been
married in the last 80 days. This is
possibly due to the marketing of
crops and the consequent easing Of
money, which has been noticeable
For one thing. we have for several
wear been shut off from the rest of
the United States because at the time
that the government took over the
railroads. the old time policy of adver-
tising the natural resources of The
northwest was discontinued. Just re-
Gently the Great Northern. the Nor
thern Pacific and the Burlington
have announced a three-year campaign
of advertising of the Pacific north
west, in which Montana is included,
upon which campaign for the first year
they expect to spend 81 900. 000.
Demands New Type of Farming
This campaign is of a large nature
that no small organization could at
tempt and it is bound to produce great
results. The only sort of advertising
that Montana has had for four years
has been its advertisities. This rail-
road campaign of advertising will I'M
q~uestionabiy bring new settlers into
this area, and due to the announced
campaign policy of strict adherence to
truth, no doubt these settlers will be
men more capable of success than
many who came here formerly, and
with more resources with which to
/ start.
The great hope of dry land farm
ing for those areas which can be
farmed seems TO lie in the fact that
the farmer is gradually learning how
to farm Montana lands. Everywhere
farmers are turning to spring blowing
and summer tillage n year followed
by a crop the e The Montana De-
velopment association and the State
Agricultural college at Rozeman are to
be commended for their leadership in
the teaching of this system which is
the only practical method of cereal
crop production in our dry land areas.
We hear in the papers hopeful news
of the brass industry of Great Fails
which ever indicates that eventually
Great Falls. instead of being subsidiary
to the Butte interests. will become the
major part of the Anaconda's plant
in Montana. We also know of the
| enormous iron deposits at Stanford. at
| Monarch and in the mountains be-
tween here and White Sulphur
Springs. 1t is not too much TO hope
that these will he linked into the in
! d~ustrial life of Great Falls in the near
future.
We have been through the valley
| and are on the upward grade. Most
people have developed 4 habi of
| thought which is detrimental to real
progress. Many consider only, the
woeful things that have happened and
| not the intrinsic merits of the state
in which they live. A good thing for
the generality of people would be TO
!. visit some other state. It is a mat
ter of comment that Montanans re.
turning at this time bring Il spirit OF
optimism for the Treasure state; They
can plainly see that with the depres-
, sion period passing. Montana possesses
| business possibilities greater thah
those of any other part OF the unieh'
..~- ~-4D, nv TLEIP MINDS