Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-08-23

NEVER has Montana looked as good as
IL does right now. declared Ralph
4 Budd, who was in the state recently
to address Montana editors at the State
Press association convention.
II nave travelled back and forth across
this state for many years. but never have
1 seen the crops so promising as they
appear this year" said Mr.. Budd.
There seems to be no question now
but that Montana Is going 10 repeat It's
success of last year and again lead every
state In the union in grain production.
"The results of this years crop certain
ly constitutes a most gratifying reversal
of early prospects.
Our officials tell me that they do not
hesitate to predict that the crop along
Great Northern lines this year will sur
pass that OF last years by upwards Of
1000, 600 bushels.
More gratifying even than the pros
poets OF impending new crop records is
the fact that a program of agriculture
has been developed that will practically
assure at least a crop even In unfavor-
able seasons. 1t is wonderful, of course,
to have W. record years in succession,
but 1t still is more gratifying to feel that
there is little likelihood of any repeti-
ton OF the serious setbacks the state has
sustained in the past.
"Montana's astonishing recovery and
the progress in methods of cultivation
have occasioned favorable comment far
and wide. The fine things hat are being
said about this state. together with the
opportunities hat still remain to obtain
land at favorable prices, doubtless will
attract many new citizens during the
coming year."
Mr.. Budd was accompanied by q. r.
Martin. vice president In the executive
department.
Speaking before the press convention
In Helena, MIR. Budd forecast continued
rapid development for Montana, and said
that there is no better example in the
country of a territory growing and i'm
proving as its railroads have expanded.
than is afforded by the Treasure state.
Tracing the development of Montana
from the early eighties, MIR. Budd pointed
out the natural advantages Of the state
in Offering several routes for transcon-
tinental lines through widely separated
passes that not only permit railroads to
serve large territories, but allow the car
riers to establish rates lower than the
scale usually necessary for hauls over
mountain ranges.
Discussing transportation in Montana
by rail, highway and air. President Judd
said, 1T is difficult to overstate the eff
feet OF the railways upon Montana's des-
tiny" He emphasized that increased
railway mileage and population show a
direct relation.
AS to air travel the railway executive
declared he would not hazard a guess as
to whether there will be enough Of such
to make the volume OF business i'm
portant when measured in terms Of the
total travel by rail"
Mr.. Budd said that more than 10000
600 automobiles are carrying people
somewhere nearly every day. The effect
Of this motor car usage has been to
take away from. the railways a large part
Of their local passenger traffic"
lie reviewed the process made in rail-
way transportation and mentioned what
the future may hold with the proposed
combination of rail and air travel from
New York to Los Angeles.
THE increasing use of airplanes and
the fact that airplane factories have or