Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-09
RISE
To FAME WILDLY
TOLD BY KELLEY
Copper Company President
Paints GloUing Picture of
Treasure States Career
in Address at Great CiDic
Reception at Helena.

F. Kelley of the Anaconda Copper
| Mining company in an address made
in Helena, Thursday, August IL, at
the civic reception following the in
| s~tallation of Right Reverend George
]. Finnegan as Bishop Of Helena. This
forward looking utterance by the head
of Montana's largest industrial en-
terprise-whose operations affect the
material welfare of one out OF every
| six Montanans-is of such signifi-
canoe that we reproduce it herewith
in full:
"Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men,:
Il wish to give expression to the
very real sense of appreciation which
I feel in having been invited to speak
to this a~ssemblage, and to the subject
assigned-'The Industrial Future OF
| Montana What a flood Of pregnant
suggestion does the mere statement
of the subject convey, for industry is
the economic cornerstone of every
we'll ordered community. and the flu
ture of Montana is a subject that lies
| close to the heart of everyone here
present.
THE future of our industry must of
necessity be based upon probabilities,
and a forecast of those probabilities
cannot be made without a passing re-
~trospection Of past accomplishment, a
| contemplation of contemporaneous
achievement and an estimate of future
endeavor.
when one pauses 10 reflect upon
progress that has been made by Mon
tana's industry and its future posi-
bilities, may / be permitted to say
that no occasion could be of more
fitting significance than the pro-
foundry religious ceremonies that
have TRANSFERRED here today.
"As | sat this morning in the beau
tiful cathedral that has become your
seat, witnessing the installation of
your Lordship into the holy office,
the responsibilities of which you have
assumed, and saw you clothed with
the sacred vestments that are the in
sigma of your status of dignity and
spiritual trust, my thoughts were car
ried back to that day not SO long ago
when the locality of that church was
an unknown. remote and mere geo.
graphic frontier of the Diocese of
Omaha, and to that spot, not far dis
tant, where a heroic man first raised
the Cross of Christ and performed
the holy sacrifice of the mass within
what we now know as the confines of
this state.
mo Gothic edifice sheltered that
ceremony; man had not then created
q temple within which to gather;
truly the footstool was the earth, the
| canopy the skies and the silent par
Elephants the unknown and untaught
vag to whose untutored minds had
come a desire to know and reverence
the white mans God. 1t seems to me
that it is extremely apropos of our
subject that reference should be made
to this incident, for not only is a lib
eral and respectful reverence for re-
ligion and religious thought an essen
tial to the progress and we'll being of
any civilized community, but espec-
tally appealing to this occasion and to
the subject to which | am speaking,
are the facts that a black-robed priest,
eighty-one years ago, opened the first
furrow in the fertile soil Of Montana,
and therein planted the first seed that
has yielded such an abundant harvest;
that four years later a fellow mis-
sionary, with interchangeable labor, had
developed a small w%ater-power,
mounting upon a frame a couple Of
b~urr-stones that he had brought from
Belgium and packed into the Bitter
Root Valley, and initiated Montana's
industry with the first grist mill Of
this state; that at that same mission
the first saw, filed from the steel
tires of a wagon, was set into a mill,
and the inception of Montana's lumber
industry began.
1T is written in the annals of our
history that Peter DeSmet and An
thony Ravalli were not only priests
who, by their heroism, zeal and self
sacrifice contributed a glorified page
to that narrative wherein is recorded
the accomplishment Of the Jesuit mis-
sionary in America, but that they like
wise, by the accomplishments recited,
became the first industrialists of our
state.
1.-THE story of Montana's rapid rise
to industrial Importance is fascinat-
ing in human interest and in the con-
ceptions that have grown to a magni-
tude of world wide fame. 1t presents
an exemplification of that old story
that never fails to charm, of pioneer
exploit and adventure, of frontier toll
and hardship, of failure and success,
of primitive beginnings carried for
ward by courage, imagination and de-
termination to successful accomplish
ment.
1T is the story in which is epito-
mixed the development of the West,
the obliteration of the frontier and
the creation of a nation. Within the
borders of our state was witnessed to
its fullest extent the transition that