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Worthy of Emulation
W HEN his present tour is completed President Taft will have
visited- more of the United States than has any of his
piredecessors in the highest office at the gift of the nation.
President Roosevelt traveled over considerable of the country pre
vious to his assumption of the office of president, and even after, he
showed himself sufficiently often to the people to satisfy them that
he felt that ho was the president of the whole people, but for any one
continuous tour or for the vast scope of country reached, his tours
could not conmpare with the one now undertaken by President Taft.
The chief executive is eminently correct in his statement that the
more he can get acquainted with the country and its people, the
better president he will make. Too often we have had presidents who
hardly realized that west of the Mississippi river there lay a vast
country posseising infinite resources, and having great problems that
must be solved. To these presidents, the country consisted of certain
thickly settled states lying along the Atlantic seaboard and in the
central valleys, together with certain provinces situated out in that
rather hazy region known as "The West." With this limited view
of the country, it is not strange that every act of the executive should
be tinged with eastern sentiment, and that the west should be com
pelled to fight strenuously for everything that it got.
When President Taft reaches the true west-the regions lying
between the Pacific ocean and the father of 'waters, he will find that
he has entered the granary of the nation-the region upon which the
country must depend for its future greatness. He will find rapidly
growing commonwealths, peopled by intelligent, progressive and
thrifty workers, and he will find that in none of the essentials which
go to make ilp a highly civilized region, is the west a whit behind
the far east.
President Taft is not only a man who is broad in his ideas but
he is an observing man as well, and out of his visit to the west should
come much good. He will note the needs of the only portion of the
nation 'which still offers opportunity to the ambitious, homes to the
people and room for the display of the indomitable perseverance and
push of the true spirit of Americanism. When he has familiarized
himself with the problems of the west, it will be impossible for any
particular interests to impose upon him as they have upon some of
the presidents who have preceded him.
In the nmagnificent tour of President Taft, the country can look
for much good, and it is to be hoped that future presidents may
find his exaniple worthy of emulation.
The new interurban electric line, so
Meaens long hoped for, is an assured fact, provid
ing the people will do their part in the
Mu.uh matter of stock subscriptions and rights
of way. Experiences of other communities
in which rapid transit has been provided,
has demonstrated that there is no one other
agency so pqtent in the upbuilding of a region than is the electric
railway, and that in addition to the electric lines proving a magnifi
cent stimulus to settlement, they have proven to be paying proposi
tions and mbst desirable modes of investment.
Along the lake shore regions between Buffalo and Cleveland,
several systems have been established. It has been found that while
these roads did not cut into the earnings of the steam roads they
were still able to secure all of the business that they could handle.
This prosperity of the electric roads was not due to a division of the
business but rather to the cultivation of new sources of business, and
the result of the construction of electric lines 'was shown to be in
creased prosperity to both railroads and communities.
Every possible encouragement should be given to the new inter
urban proposition to the end that it may be realized at the earliest
possible date, and that Billings may become the center of a great
electric system which will reach all points within a reasonable radius
of the city-north, south, east and west.
But, as stated at the outset, the people must do their part, by
not neglecting the opportunity presented at the present time, of sub
scribing for stock in the proposed road, and by granting rights of
way that will make the land along the line of the interurban more
valuable.
Let every one who can, take in the coming Carblon county fair
as a member of the Chamber of Conunerce party. Carbon county
is the fruit center of the west. and it will pay any one to take a
trip through the favored region in order that its possibilities may
be learned.
It is no longer a question of whether crops cn be raised without
irrigation upon the lands of eastern Montana. for now the question
is, "how long will the open lands remain?" It's the wise man who
gets in upon the ground floor and fixes himself before the great rumh
comes.
Yellowstone valley apples are arriving in the market and sonimc
thing extra in the way of apples they are, too. The Yellowstone i
destined to become the great apple country of the continent, within
the next decade.
Wheneieer that unruly fellow at HIavre leaves the door open,.
everybody i. conscious of a draft.
Position Fully Vindicated
DOUBTLESS now that President Taft has announced his posi
tion anent the controversy between the secretary of the in
terior and a bureau chief, some of the members of the state
press who have been rather voluble in their remarks concerning Sec
retary Ballinger, will discover where they "get off at." The same
may be true in regard to the matter of the reclamation of the arid
lands through the medium of the reclamation service.
Conservation of our forests has long been urged by thinking men,
and when President Roosevelt displayed an active interest in the
subject the entire country applauded. Mr. Pinchot, acknowledgedly
an expert upon forestry, with the encouragement of the president,
began aggressive work in the direction of forest preservation, and
in this received the encouragement of the thinking portion of the
people.
As time progressed, conservation became a slogan and forest
preservation a fetich. The forest service began assuming powers
which by constitutional right were vested in the head of an entirely
different department. The interior department of the government
and its bureau, the general land office, were ignored by the heads
of a bureau of the department of agriculture, and hundreds of thou
sands of acres of land were, without authority of law, withdrwwn
from entry, and the progress of the west toward settlement was
sensibly retarded.
Secretary Ballinger, a iwestern man himself, and a man who
believes that government officials, whether they be cabinet members
or heads of bureaus, were bound by the law, intervened to not only
protect the people of the west but compel observance of the law. It
is a noteworthy fact that of all the papers of the northwest, The
Daily Gazette was the only one which did not worship at the shrine
of sentimentalism and which stood with the secretary for an un
limited expansion of the activities of the west.
There have been some rather harsh criticisms of the stand taken
by The Gazette, but conscious that it stood upon the only logical
ground, this paper continued to demand that the forest service should
confine itself to its legitimate functions and that it should not at
tempt to usurp the powers of the interior department.
Now comes William H. Taft, president of the United States, in
a state paper in which every point editorially made by The Daily
Gazette is insisted upon. The arguments of the paper are repeated
by the chief executive and he reaches precisely the same conclusions
as did The Gazette. Now the papers which had been so free in their
criticisms, are getting into line and it is to be expected that from
now on, all will be found working intelligently for the advancement
of the interests of the country in 'which they are published.
The Daily Gazette also called attention to the fact that in many
particulars the pushers of the reclamation service were attempting
to make progress too rapidly. Recognizing the enormous benefit
that the reclamation service was conferring upon the country, this
paper insisted that the best results could be attained through the
completion of projects now on hand rather than the inauguration of
new ones. It was pointed out that for several year* to come, the
money available would be limited and that wisdom would dictate that
projects now under way should be made to do their work before any
more of the funds of the service should be tied up in new enter
prises. This view also called out editorial mention which in sonime
instances wais decidedly unfair. Now comes the senate committee
on irrigation, through its chairman, with the announcement of pre
cisely the same thing as had been claimed by this paper and again The
Daily Gazzette has been vindicated. x
Soundness of viewpoint, and devotion to the general good, rather
than to the good of some particular section, are always, sooner or
later, upheld, and in the two instances quoted, the vindication has
come much sooner than could reasonable have been expected.
The board of control of the Dry
Board Farming congress acted wisely in eliminat
ing purely local prizes offered in competi
Acted tion in connection with the exposition of
Wisely dry farm products to be held in connection
Swith the sessions of the congress in this
city. The board has decided that every
prize shall be open to the competition of the world and that nothing
of a local flavor shall be permitted in the exposition.
The exposition as well as the congress is an international affair
and the exhibits of the dry lands of the entire world are invited.
That there should bIe special prizes for Yellowstone county or for
Montana would not Ie consistent with the international character of
the exhibition, consequently the determination of the board of con
trol that no part of the numerous competitions shall be localized,
will meet with the approbation of all engaged in the dry faruming
p'o)agandca.
Montana can furnish homes for a million more people and this
population cannot only be self-supporting but can contribute to the
food supply of the nation. The moral is that if you are wise you will
grab a slice of Montana lands while they are still cheap.
Southern California is longing for separate statehood. Cali
fornia is a pretty big affair and there is little question that she is
big enough and rich enough. to make two mighty respectable com
moinwealths if the carving knife should be employed.
When the state house is equipped with its new wings, it will be
a bird.
If this Cook-Pearv controversy continues, we shall have to revive
tihe Schley-Sampson affair, by way of diversion.
I)r. Cook cocktails and Peary flips are the latest.
Will Head off the Rock Island
in Race for the Canal Trade
EI, PASO, Texas, Sept. 18.--Dr. F.
A. Pierson, head of the Canadian cap
italists, who recently purchased the
[tit, Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific
railroad, and secured control of the
('hihtahlua & Pacific, announced last
night that the two roads will le ex
tended from El Paso to the Pacific
lcean,. with an outlet at the mouth of
the Rio Mayo, in Sonora, the project
to involve $1.5,0o000.
Surveys will begin in 60 days.
In connection with the road, Dr.
Pierson said a company would be
formed later for Panama and coast
business. lie also stated that the new
road will give a shorter route to the
Pacific than the Southern Pacific and
will give the shortest route to Cen-I
tral United States points from Central
A NOVEL TRIP
THROUGH CANON
Two Billings Men in Frail Canoes
Explore the Waters of the
Big Horn.
BOTH GOT VERY WET
Dr. Will Allen and Ben Huffbauer
Spend an Enjoyable Week Floating
Down River Through Canon Which
Is Little Known.
One would have to look a long ways
to find a more enjoyable way to spend
a two weeks' vacation than that taken
by Dr. Will Allen and Ben Huffbauer,
who have but recently returned to
their homes in this city after floating
down the famous canon of the Big
Horn. Both men report a very en
joyable trip and the "log" which Dr.
Aleen kept while on the journey is
full of interesting data concerning the
scenery and the fishing along the riv
er. Some very good pictures of the
canon were also secured.
Messrs. Allen and Huffbauer em
barked on their trip on the Shoshone
near Lovell, Wyo. They were equip
ped with a canvas canoe apiece, and
all the paraphernalia necessary to
such a voyage. Dr. Allen says that
very fortunately a bridge gang has
been working near Lovell and had left
behind enough pitch to make their
boats thoroughly waterproof.
The voyage was begun on the first
of September and the first thing the
hardy mariners ran into was an
abundant downpour of rain. After go
ing through Devil's canon both
Messrs. Allen and Huffbauer were so
thoroughly drenched from the water
from the rapids that they stopped at
a small creek to dry and christened
the place, after the Indian fashion,
"Wet' Em Both" creek. The "log"
also contains accounts of the finding
of large patches of wild grapes and
choke cherries, the making of a wine
press and what happened to a quart
or more of wine made from the wild
grapes. In one locality real bear
tracks were found on the banks of
the river and in most places fishing
was good. In speaking of the trip
Dr. Allen said:
"Some of the rapids splashed so
much water in our boats that it was
necessary to stop after we had passed
them and bail out. After leaving "Wet
'Em Both" we got into the worst
rapids on the voyage. I succeeded in
keeping out of the center but Ben got
right in the worst of the rapids, and
it was due alone to his exceptional
skill with the oars that he was not
compelled to do a little swimming.
The river is very decieving. Places
that look calm go along at a terrific
rate and places where the top of the
water is churned white may be found
to be perfectly safe riding for the
canoe.
"We found hunting fairly good and
fishing, especially in Black canon, was
fine."
The boats were abandoned at Har
din at which point Messrs. Allen and
Huffbauer took the train to their
homes in this city.
OIL IS FLOWING A
BARREL A MINUTE
New Refinery at Garland Has Been
Pumping from Byron Wells
for a Week.
According to Billings business men
who have recently returned from the
Big Horn basin, the new oil refinery
at Garland is now working its pumps,
and oil from the Byron wells, which
have been plugged for the past few
months, is now flowing into the tanks
of the refinery at a rate of over a
barrel a minute. The refining ma
chinery is not working as yet, for
some small but very important ma
chinery was broken in transit and has
not as yet been replaced. But it is
expected that the broken parts will
be completed within a week at the
most and that oil from the Wyoming
field will be on the market within a
month.
The flowing wells at Byron which
were plugged during the time the re
finery was in process of construction,
have all been found to he good pro
ducers and are yielding crude oil in
better volume than was expected. The
six mile pipe line which takes the
oil from the field to the refinery was
found to have been plugged, evidently
by some one with malicious intent,
in a few places, but a day's delay
while the pipe was being cleaned was
all that was required to get things
moving.
MRS. C. E. KELLY DEAD.
From Saturday's Daily.
Mrs. C. E. Kelly, wife of C. E. Kelly,
an employe of The Gazette, died early
yesterday morning of stomach trouble.
The body was shipped last night to
Minneapolis, her former home, where
the funeral services will be held. Mrs.
Kelly is survived by her husband and
a son of five years, both of whom will
accompany the remains to Minneapo
lis.
4-
MARRIAGE LICENSE.
From Saturday's Daily.
William Cruickshank obtained a
license from the clerk of the district
court yesterday for the marriage of
himself and Miss Ova Swepston, both
of the this city.
and South America. On the comple
tion of the Panama canal it will af
ford the quickest traffic from the
United States to the west end of the
canal.
This is considered a step to head
off another projected extension by
Rock Island interests west through
Arizona from the line of the El Paso
& Southwestern.
Hill Gives Silver Cups
and Cash Prizes to Be
Awarded Dry Farmers
Five silver cups, aggregating $220
in value will be features of the list
of prizes offered by James J.
Hill, chairman of the board of direct
ors of the Great Northern Railway,
for best exhibits at the International
Dry Farming Exposition which will
be held at Billings, Montana, October
25-29, in connection with the Fourth
Dry Farming Congress, October 26-28.
George J. Ryan, ,eneral industrial
agent of the Great Northern, has sent
to the headquarters of the Congress at
Billings, a list of the prizes and the
conditions under which they will be
awarded. 'The aggregate value of all
the prizes is $1,000. This award by
Mr. Hill is similar to that made by
him in the case of the Omaha Corn
Exrposition, with the exception that
the cup feature is made a special one
in favor of the Dry Farming Congress.
In regard to the cash prizes, Ore
gon, Washington and Montana are
given the same list, thereby eliminat
ing the competition of one state
against another where conditions for
certain crops might be ,better in one
state than the other.
Regarding the cups, Mr. Ryan
writes:
"The $50 cups will be, as near as
we can ascertain at present, ten to 17
For each state named above:
1st 2nd 3rd
Winter wheat, Turkey red ...................................$10 $5 $3
Spring wheat, Hard ........................................ 10 5 3
Spring wheat, Durum ................................... 10 5 3
Oats, any variety ....................................... 13 5 3
Barley, Malting .................................... 10 5 3
Barley, Hulless .......................................... 10 5 3
Winter Rye .............................................. 10 5 3
Flax ........................................ 10 5 3
Field Peas ........................................ 10 5 3
Alfalfa Seed ............................................... 10 5 3
Potatoes, any variety ..................................... 10 5 3
Sheaf exhibits,
W heat, in sheaf, any variety ................................ 6 4 2
Oats, in sheaf, any variety ................................ 6 4 2
Barley, Malting, in sheaf, any variety ........................ 6 4 2
Flax, in sheaf ........................................... 6 4 2
Alfalfa, in sheaf ....................................... 6 4 2
COME TO
BILLINGS
W E HAVE a bargain for you at the
right price and on easy terms.
Things are moving again, more sales in
the past ten days than in six months be
fore. 1 his means an advance in values
very soon and you cannot afford to de
lay. Let us sell you some town lots,
acre tracts, a home, business building
or a farm. We are buying and selling
real estate for everybody all the time,
adding value to your property and would
like to have your business. Come in.
NORTH ESTMENT COMPANY
Opposite Court House Billings, Montana
APPLE GROWERS
ATTENTION!
We have just received a car load of
APPLE BOXES. Place your
order before they are all gone-
PRICES RIGHT.
Cardell Lumber & Coal Co.
land made anywhere in the
Yellowstone Valley, by W.
W. CLARKE, Columbus,
Montana, representing the Oregon Mortgage Co.
I can offer the most favorable terms of repayment,
and make loans with the least red tape.
W. W. CLARKE, Colombus, Montana
inches high, solid silver, gold lined
and properly engraved. The two $35
cups will Ibe solid silver, gold lined
and seven to 12 or 13 inches high.
The last named cups will be given for
the best exhibits of winter wheat, tur
key red variety, and alfalfa seed, any
variety, and are open to the competi
tion of the three states named above."
Five special prizes as follows:
One silver cup for each state, value
$50.00, for the best individual display
of farm products made by any town
or community in states named above.
One silver cup, value $35.00, for the
best individual exhibit of Winter
wheat, Turkey red variety, grown in
any of the three states named above.
One silver cup, value $35.00, for the
best individual exhibit of Alfalfa seed,
any variety, grown in any of the three
states named above.
These prizes are offered for exhibits
grown without irrigation within 25
miles of any of the lines of the Great
Northern Railway in the three states
named above. 'Any person or com
munity drawing cup prizes cannot
also take first money prize in any con
test. Information as to size of samples
will be supplied upon request by the
secretary of the Dry Farming Con
gress, Billings, Montana.