The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-06-06
SENECA HOLDS
MEET FRIDAY
MaY Meeting at Terry
Is Well Attended By
County Delegates

ter facilities and SOIL c0nSerVa-
ton projects in eastern Mon.
tana and activities to promote
tourist travel throughout the
Northwest were discussed by the
SENECA.
Paul Hagen of Glendive, re-
viewed the work Of the Mon
tanan's Incorporated in detail,
%Stressing reclamation, agricul-
ture, conservation, state adver-
Using, aviation and highways.
He also outlined the program
for 1910 and stated that the
Montanan,s incorporated
planned to assist agriculture
and reclamation by assisting in
any way possible to obtain an
orderly progressive expansion of
the sugar beet industry. Ex-
planned the work of the New
Industries Committee; said that
they proposed to continue the
advertising program and to con-
centrate on Montana's scenic
beauty with the thought Of
attracting more tourists; to con-
tinue the aviation work and 10
offer their assistance to OBJ
tain feasible feeder lines, and
were dn hopes of obtaining q
National Guard Air Squadron.
Paul Jones, in charge of rec
lamation development in East
ern Montana, traced the work
of his department from the
Lower Yellowstone project,
which was authorized by the
Secretary of the Interior, May
10, 1904, down to the present
time, and added that they were
now irrigating the entire area
under the Buffalo Rapids Unit
No. l project. He referred to the
two reports of R. R. Robertson
and John A. Keimig and said
that these reports covered prac-
tically all the irrigable land be-
tween the mouth of the Big
Horn and the Lower Yellow
stone project.
o. E. Anderson of Hardin pre-
Sented "a resolution, which was
unanimously adopted, urging
that the Montana Water Board
place before the state of Wyo-
ming and the National Recla-
nation Bureau the serious sit
uation of the normal flow of
the Big Horn river and its trib-
uutarieS being held in the state
of wyoming.
Lyle Darrow explained that
land purchase and development
in Eastern Montana and urged
that a unified plan, not too
definite but certain of an OBJ
jective, be adopted. He said that
land purchase is a land plan
utilization and that this was
not a Washington idea but an
objective that was brought
forth by a group of agriculture
agents on the nighttime that
saw the needs of the stockmen,
and that they had been working
on it for some IS years but it
did not crystalline until 1888.
Considerable credit should be
given to Cliff Wilson, H. L.
Lantz, Elmer Starch, former
head of the department of Ag-
ricultural Economics at the
State college, and M. L. Wilson,
former der-Sercretary of Ag-
riculture.
Harry Anderson of Glendive
told of the work that the Farm
Security is doing on the Buff
falo Rapids. He said it was the
aim to develop the land during
settlement. $500 acres will be
developed under Unit No. / and
11,600 under Unit No. 2.
M. P. Ostby spoke of the de-
velopment of Soil Conservation
in the Wibaux district. He sta
ted that in the U. s. that so
million acres of land had al
ready been wasted. This is ap-
proXimately the size of the state
of Nebraska. Therefore, instead
of having 48 agriculture states
in the Union, we had only At;
that there was another so mil
lion about gone. This would
leave us about 46 states; and
there were 200 million acres 60
ing fast, which would leave us
only AZ states; and that there
were one billion acres slipping,
or practically so per cent of
the agriculture land in the U.
S. is almost no good on account
Of soil erosion.
w. r. Flachsenhar gave a very
enlightening talk on referen-
dunn and initiative measures
and suggested that the associa-
ton make a study OF these
measurer to be voted upon at
the general election.
L. J. Onstad, honorary presi-
dent, was in attendance, and
gave a most patriotic talk, urg-
ing that the various American
Legion organizations in Mon
tana take q firm stand on Am
ericanism.
Earle Cole spoke on water
facilities in lieu Of o. Leon An