The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-12-18
MONTANAN SPREADS
SOUND SENSE HERE


tourist business it is going to ben
eft all of Montana. And the tour
list business, said Mr.. Emory, is
the biggest crop we have, it is go
ing to expand rapidly in the next
few years when the rest of the
world finds out what we have to
offer and when our highway sys-
tenn is completed. Our tourist bust
ness, according to the speaker,
ought to be $50, ZOO, 900 a year,
which would mean 500 for every
man, woman and child in the state.
The bigger the tourist business,
the greater the market within the
state for Montana products. A
tourist eats bread and butter, milk
and honey, vegetables, meat and
eggs, not to mention the five cents
a gallon he pays for all the gas
he uses to travel over u roads.
Get Them to Come
If our road system were com
pleted there would be 300,000 cars
routed through Montana that r
now routed around the state. We
have actually got something worth
while to sell, and when we induce
a city office man to come to Mon
tana where nature is natural, we
have done him a favor. It is the
purpose of Montanans, Incorporat-
ed to tell the rest of the country
about Montana and whet their in
terest and desire to come here.
Oregon and Washington keep
careful check of tourist business,
and by registering foreign ars
both in and out, it is known how
many cars are in the state at any
time and how long they stay. By
estimating a daily expenditure
of $40 a car, which Mr.. Emory con
siders conservative, it is possible
to figure out very close to what
the tourist business brings to the
state. If the cars that are passing
through" could all be induced to
spend just one extra day in Mon
tana, it would mean an enormous
sum in the Golfers of the %citizenry.
Need The Railroads
Mr.. Emory says he is opposed to
taking mail contracts away from
the railroads and giving them to
airplanes. The railroads, he said,
need the mail business, and if that
is taken way from them, within
five years there will be no railroads
in the country but transcontinental
lines, with bus lines carrying local
passenger and freight traffic. He
does, however, believe that Mon
tanna should be in the same freight
zone as North and South Dakota.
Irrigation
Mr.. Emory urged the necessity
of irrigation along the territory
tributary to the Missouri, not for
the sake of growing more wheat,
but for the sake of growing less
wheat and more fodder of various
kinds. It is necessary to irrigate
so that enough is produced to
feed the stock that ranges On the
uplands. If, over a period of years.
feed for stock must be brought in
from a distance, then both farm
ing and stock raising are uphill
businesses. It is up to the citizens
of eastern Montana to find a way
to make farming a paying PROPOSE
ton. We can't expect help from
the outside to continue. We can't
expect the government will hand
out feed loans and seed loans year
after year without coming to the
conclusion that perhaps the ex-
pense isn't worth while. One rea-
son why there is an overproduction
of wheat in good years, and why
there is so much land on which
wheat raising does not pay is be-
cause during the world war, a vast
amount of land was broken up and
put into crop that never had been
In Gro before. This was a measure
urged upon us to help win the
war. Land that might produce
$3.50 wheat ~profitably shows a Dig
loss when so cen wheat is grown
on 1t. But is it not desirable to
have $3.50 wheat. Mr.. Emory Is OF