The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-09-23
ll0NTANAS RISE
TO FAME WILDLY
TOLD BY KELLEY
Copper Company President
Paints GIOUing Picture OF
Treasure STATE 8 Career
in Address at Great CIDic
Reception at Helena.

was wildly sketched by President G.
F. Kelley of the Anaconda Copper
Mining in an address made
in Helena, Thursday, August 1s, at
the civic reception following the in
s~tallation of Right Reverend George
J. 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:
81 wish to give expression to the
very real sense of appreciation which
feel in having been invited to speak
20 this assemblage, and to the subject
assiRned-The Industrial Future OF
Montana What q flood Of pregnant
EuQpestion does the mere statement
Of the subject convey, for industry Is
the economic cornerstone Of every
veil ordered community, and the fu-
ture of Montana is a subject that lies
close to the heart of everyone here
present.
1.-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, q
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 l be permitted to say
that no occasion could be Of more
fitting significance than the pro-
foundly religious ceremonies that
have transpired here today.
"As 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 responsibilities of which you have
assumed, and saw you clothed with
the sacred vestments that are the In
sigma of yOur status of dignity anC
spiritual trust, my thoughts were car
Tied back to that day not so long age
when the locality of that church wa!
an unknown, remote and mere geo
graphic frontier of the Diocese o.
Omaha, and to that spot, not far dis
tant, where a heroic man first raise'
Che Cross Of Christ and performeI
the holy sacrifice of the mass within
what we now know as the confines o
this state.
mo Gothic edifice sheltered tina
ceremony; man had not then create
q temple within which to gather
truly the fOOtstool was the earth; tn
canopy the skies and the silent par
Elephants the unknown and untaugh
savage, to whose untutOred minds ha
come a desire to know and reverence
the white mans God. It seems to m
that it is extremely aprOpOs Of on
subject that reference should be mad
to this incident, for not only is q liz
eral and respectful reverence for n
lgion and religious thought ar esseI
tial to the progress and well being {
any civilized community, but espei
tally appealing to this occasion and
the subject to which I am speaking
are the facts that a black-robed prizes
eighty-One years ago, opened the fir
fiTrow in the fertile soil of Montan
and therein planted the first seed TIL
has yielded such an abundant harves
that four years later a fellow mi
siOnary, with interchangeable labor, h
developed a small water-powe
mounting upon a frame a couple
burr-stones that he had brought fro
Belgium and packed into the Bit
Root Valley, and initiated Montans
industry with the first grist mill
this state; that at that same missi
the first saw, filed from the ste
tires of a wagon, was set into a mi
and the inception Of MOntana's lumb
industry began.
cit is written in the annals Of o
history that Peter DeSmet and A
thony Ravalli were not only prize.
who, by their heroism, zeal and g
sacrifice contributed a glorified pa
10 that narrative wherein is record
the accomplishment of the Jesuit m
Sionary in America, but that they Ill
wise, by the accomplishments recit
became the first industriai.sts Of
state.
"The story Of Montana's rapid I
to industrial Importance is fascin
ing in human interest and in the C.
ceptions that have grown to q mag
tude Of world wide fame. It prese
IN exemplification Of that old ST
that never fails to charm, Of pion
exploit and adventure, Of frontier
and hardship, of failure and succ,
Of primitive beginnings carried 1
ward by courage, imagination and
termination to successful accompl
ment.
ut is the story in which Is ep
mizeG the development Of the w
the o~bliteration Of the frontier
the creation Of a nation. Within