The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-03-29

ment became intermittent and they
are restless and casting about for
more pleasant and profitable oeeupa-
ton. They realize that opportunities
for their children are greatly limited
and that they themselves are making
no provisions for old age Thus the
savings of many have been lured INTO
schemes that took them far from their
places of employment to mproduetlve
lands where they could not even exc
out an existence. These unfortunate
persons made many of their race
skeptical about land settlement and
this is recognized as one Of the fac
tors which must be overcome IN the
movement we have launched.
"The facts, however, are these:
These new immigration agents have
visited the territory along our lines
in the west and are enthusiastic over
the opportunities. They declare that
the people with whom they have been
associated since coming to America,
being farmer-minded, would have
enjoyment, prosperity and ideal sur
roundings for themselves and then
children if they located on these farms
in the west, virtually all Of which are
irrigated lands for sale at low prices
by the irrigation district organization.
"The purpose of the railway COM
pany is to attract persons who have
made modest savings and are abe to
finance themselves through reason
able preliminary period and who have
the qualifications and the inclinations
to become substantial farmers. We
already have the nucleus for these
colonies.
Some of the land to which these
peoples attention is to be directed
has been under cultivation. About 10
years ago these districts were opened
for settlement. Persons with no in
tention of carrying on farming ae-
tivities and with qualifications for
that work made initial payments for
short period and then permitted
them to revert to the counties by
failure to pay taxes. Tax deeds have
been secured by the irrigation dis
trict organizations and commercial
clubs in the territory and these dis
trict officials are cooperating with
the railway companies in their resale
to bona fide farm settlers. The pro-
gram calls for first bringing in the
immigrants to the colony, and then
intensive work by all the agencies
with view to making their farming
operations successful. Schools, roads,
and telephone lines already are con-
structed and the social life to which
these foreign speaking people are ac-
customed soon will develop. The
lands in these proposed colonies are
adapted to general diversified farm
/ ing.
The movement which the railway
company is undertaking in coopera-
ton with the agencies in these west
ern areas vii have particular appeal
at this time because of economic con-
ditions in the eastern population and
industrial centers. Mr.. Gabor and Mr..
Baligrodzki have gone east with their
message for the people whom they
are satisfied will make ideal farmers
and who will thus provide amply for
themselves and their children in the
future.
The railroads plan, according to
Mr.. Haw is not one based upon ex-
ploitation or land speculation but ra-
Their is a conservative, honest effort
to settle these people where they may
lead a pleasant, healthful life of pro
fitable employment and where they
and their children may grow up with
the northwest.