The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-05-18

/ soulian, the Billings Gazette, the Liv
ingston Enterprise, arguments every
day against the establishment of the
CVAA and the MVA. | doubt IL you
have ever thought why the Anaconda
owned press is so eager in its argu
ments.
The Anaconda Copper Mining Com.
pany has, and operates, the largest
phosphate plants in the northwest. It's
su1phuric acid is made in Anaconda,
shipped to point near Pocatello,
Idaho, where there is a great phos-
plate deposit. There the acid is used
to make super phosphates, and an
imense tonnage of it sold at a profit
people might be so unkind as to say
that any company that would sell
phoney communication wire to the
government for use by our boys fight
ing Japan in the South Seas might
also sell a weaker solution of fertilizer
to the farmers than publicly owned
and operated phosphate plant would
do. l don't know but as a ranch
owner given my choice, l would buy
IVA fertilizer in preference to Ana
conda Super Phosphates.
In the water shed of the Columbia,
in fact, running by Garrison, Montana,
and for so miles long, is-a phosphate
deposit of a higher grade than any
of those in Tennessee being mined
by the Tennessee authority, but if
that phosphate were mined by the
eva, and sold to you farmers, better
goods at cheaper rate, the Union
Pacific Railway Company and the
Northern Pacific Railway Company
would lose the freight on Idaho phos-
pilates for your use, at least for any
distance further than from Garrison
to Hamilton. The Anaconda product,
if it be only one-fourth as useful per
ton as Tennessee phosphate, would
Immediately improve and be made
equally as good as the publicly pro-
duced article Thus, the railroads
would lose more freight, and this
makes one think of the reason why
my friend, the Honorable Walter Pope,
being attorney for the Milwaukee Rail-
road, is publicly trying to persuade
you to oppose the eva.
Before the Milwaukee Railroad was
placed in the hands of a receiver,
there was what is called an interlock-
ing directorate between the Anaconda
the Montana Power Com
pany, and the Milwaukee Railroad.
But, besides the annual profit being
the fertilizers being produced |
at cost, the nitrogen for the war effort, |
the calcium carbide for synthetic rub |
Der, the iva saved its customers in |
one year 10 million dollars on their |
electric light and power rates. 1 use
the figures of Congressman Rankin
Of Mississippi, Congressional Record
Of April 14th).
In that speech of Rankin there is
4 table of consumers savings in COM
Darison between present rates of pri-
gate companies, with rates under IVA,
md Tacoma publicly owned plant, I'M
Ter Bonneville administration, and UNI
Ter Ontario, Canada publicly owned
plants. For Montana, and this is for
residential service only, in 1914, we
paid $4,256,000 Under the present
IVA rates we would have paid ST.
$4,000, with saving of above two
million dollars. Under the Tacoma,
rate, we would have paid
Il, 1000, with saving Of s2,300,000.
Under the Bonneville rate, our saving
would have been two million dollars,
nd under the Ontario, Canada rate,
ur saving would have been s2,500,000.
Here let me add that our neighbors
cross the line are much in favor of
he Ontario plan, and this leads me to
hope that one day | may live to
ee, not only the Columbia river, in
ide of the United States, under a
ingle valley authority, with local self
overnment decentralized, but also
hat the river north of the line may 8
e placed, by our good neighbors in
under a similar authority, and {
hat the two authorities may finally
onverge into one authority. Just as {
ur corporations go to Canada to do I
usiness, and their corporations come I
ere to do business, / see nothing
lconsistent, after practical tests, why
wo corporations might merge, and our
90 years of peace with Canada be
nus cemented further with one public
controlling the river: {
anada with one director, ourselves a
wo directors, working out, for the c
God of humanity the value of this G
reat river, which, by the way, carries C
} the Ocean more water than the +
does at New Orleans, and n
our and one-half times as much as t
ne Colorado carries at the Boulder c
am. I, for one, rejoice that three S
-eeks ago, by treaty, we have divided s
ne waters of that river in a friendly I
-ay with our good neighbor, Mexico. s