The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-08-25
MOUNTAINS RISE
TO FAME WILDLY
TOLD By KELLEY
Copper Company President
Paints GIoUfng Picture of
Treasure Stare S Career
IN ADDRESS at Great CDic
Reception al Helena.

Reception al Helena.
1.-THE Industrial Future of Montana
was wildly sketched by President c
F. Kelley of the Anaconda Cope
Mining company in an address mad
in Helena, Thursday, August Is, a
the civic reception following the in
stallation of Right Reverend George
J. Finnegan as Bishop of Helena. Thi.
forward-looking utterance by the heae
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
| feel in having been invited to speak
to this assemblage, and to the subject
assigned-'The Industrial Future of
Montana What flood of pregnant
suggestion does the mere statement
of the subject convey, for industry is
the economic cornerstone of every
well ordered community, and the fu-
ture of Montana is subject that lies
close to the heart of everyone here
present.
"The future of our industry must of
necessity be based upon probabilities,
and forecast of those probabilities
eafrot be made without passing re-
ospection of past accomplishment,
contemplation of contemporaneous
achievement and an estimate of future
endeavor.
"When one pauses to 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 transpired here today.
GAS l sat this morning in the beau
tiful cathedral that has become your
seat, witnessing the installation of |
your Lordship into the holy office, /
the possibilities 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. .
: "No Gothic edifice sheltered that
ceremony; man had not then created
a temple within which to gather;
truly the footstool was the earth. the
canopy the skies and the silent par
Elephants the unknown and untaught
savage, 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-
lglon and religious thought an essen
,lal to the progress and we'll being of
any civilized community but espec-
ally appealing to this occasion and to
,he subject to which l am speaking.
are the facts that black-robed priest
elghty-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;
hat four years later a fellow mis-
lonary, with interchangeable labor, had
developed a small water-power,
upon a frame couple of
that ne had brought from
Belgium and packed into the Bitter
Root Valley, and initiated Montana's
with the first grist mill of
his state; that at that same mission
The first saw, filed from the steel
tires of a wagon, was set into mill.
and the inception Of Montana's lumber
began.
at is written in the annals of ous
history that Peter DeSmet and An
5hony Ravalli were not only priests
who, by their heroism, zeal and self
sacrifice contributed a glorified page
20 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.
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