The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-08-25

: pushed IN the past. and an endeavor
TO make an intelligent appraisal of
e existing factors the development of
which will make for the industrial
: prosperity of those who are to come.
: 1t Is long step since Father De-
Smet opened that first furrow in
Montana's soil to the present product
I've output of this state, which this
year will far outstrip any prior Weld.
1t would have been beyond the limits
OF mans imagination to have visual
lzed the transition that has taken
place since Father Ravalli's first wa
ter-power turned his tiny grist mill
to the gigantic engines whose never
eeaslng wheels are turned TODAY in
making Montana's output of product
i've wealth.
Hopeful as they were. the first
prospectors who eagerly FASTENED in
to Montana's hills after the first de-
poslt of gold in Granville. Stuart's
sluice boxes, could not dream of the
Alladln's treasure that was therein
contained. Had someone to whom
there had been given the power to lift
aside the mystic veil of fate UNDER
taken then to prophesy what has come
to pass, to whose credulity could he
nave appealed? And who was there
who, having listened, would have be- T
lieved? 1t is written that what man
has done man can do, and by virtue
OF what right can anyone today put
a limitation upon the possibilities of
a future that is predicated upon
OASIS as secure as is the future of our
industry?
industry, in its broad sense, con-
slsts IN the production of raw ma
terlals and, through the agency of APP
pied labor, converting them into COM
modltles useful for or desired by man
as Incidental to his social status.
GlVen an abundant supply of raw ma
terlal, the opportunity of producing
ana manufacturing it, and the means
OF transporting the product to avail
able markets, the necessary elements
OF industry exist. Gagged by this
standard, who can be other than an
optlmist about the future of this state
and It's industry? Where is there an
area more generously endowed with
the fundamental factors of potential
wealth?
while the opportunity for rapid
development may not be as great as |
existed a generation ago. the diff
'ultles then eontemporaneous have .
'een minimized and the results today !,
ire more assured. We live in an age
II which the economic status of mil G
Ions of people is changing with ra- e
'idlty unknown at any prior time in '
history. This change in social con- h
1tlons and the growth of the nation h
oW calls for and will continue to de- n
1and a production of what have be- y
ONE essentials to modern life upon :
constantly increasing scale, the linz :,
OF which no man can measure and y
formula determine. D
If we but take advantage of our L
pportunities, it is inevitable that II
lontana's industries must grow and O.
rosper in direct ratio, as we have il
'lthln our borders the basic elements II
lat go to make for material wealth. CO
nat these exist and will be utilized i,
lsures IN part the future of Mon =,
mas industry, for great indeed is :.
er endowment. y
Here we have an area as great as =
instituted many of the major en- "
res OF the old world, where tens of III
llllons have lived, labored and pros
cred. Mineral deposits, from which =
easure aggregating billions, has
zen extracted, seventy-five per cent
which has been spent in the pro-
lotion costs and reinvestment made Il
thin the state, and from the store =
ouse OF which uncounted millions are
1t to come. Coal measures of such Sa
ltent that centuries will not consume
lem, power, replenished by winter w
lows and summer rains, that should
st unto eternity, millions of acres of ed
liable land, forests untouched by the
oodsman1s ak, reservoirs of oil, and mr.
ase products whose potential values
N only be realized as population in mr.,
eases and markets are thereby Gre !
ed. A princely heritage indeed, and col
lie that imposes upon our people a we
sponsibility, if our possibilities are
be realized, for it should ever be h q,
membered that the material ele- ho1
ents of wealth furnish merely the Z
portunity for the creation of, but orr
mot of themselves constitute, in hay
stry. !
Industry is vital, living, con- to
lous state. Under conditions fay- aft
able to its development it prospers \
d under adverse conditions it dies. Dire
wv material, capital and labor COM visi
ned in the productive effort produce. a "
2 desired results. The lack of any {
OF the three is fatal to it's pro- MOI
ess. day
Today vast areas of the world, Sha
pulated by an appreciate percent "
e OF the human race, are living dau
lidst conditions of poverty and dis a Fl
'ss, hunger and despair, because Loo
Gamers have taken the places of Hit
rkers; untried theories have sup T
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