Show NEW LAND OF PROMISE I Mormon Leaders to Visit Colonies in Canada SPEND WEEK AT RAYMOND I President Smith and Apostle Smoot Talk of Journey 1 I Jesse Knight Hns Something to Sny About the Big Beet Sugar Factory Fac-tory nt Raymond A distinguished party of Mormons reached Great Falls last night says the Great Falls Leader of Saturday on I their way to Canada leaving on theI morning train for the north I was headed by no less a personage than President Joseph Smith the present head of the church and a son nf the original Joseph Smith the founder of I the I Mormon church and who is called I by hIs people the prophet President I Smiths wife and daughter accompanied i him There was also In the party United Unit-ed States Senator Reed Smoot the Mormon Mor-mon Senator from Utah who gained so I much notoriety through the contesting of his sent in the upper house of Congress Con-gress on the ground that he had plural wives A son of Senator Smoot accompanied accom-panied him Jesse Knight the millionaire million-aire mining man from Utah who Is at the head of the Knight Sugar company that is building an Immense 75000 sugar beet factory at Raymond Alberta north of Great Falls was also along Senator Smoot and his son and Mr Knight L registered from Provo Utah while the other members of the party I I consisting of President Joseph F Smith wife and daughter John W Taylor and wife C McCarthy M F Cowley wife II and son Frank Fairbanks and Miss D Jackson registered from Salt Lake City Cowley is the man after whom the nev town of Cowley Wyo in the Big Horn I I basin was named The party stopped at the Park hotel over night BOUND FOR MORMON SETTLEMENT I I SETTLE-MENT I They are all going to Raymond Alberta Al-berta the new Mormon town where the big sugar beet factory is going up They will remain there a eel or ten days looking after the welfare of the Mormon Mor-mon colonists there the progress of the sugar beet rajslng their stock agricultural agricul-tural mining and numerous other Interests In-terests They will also attend a quarterly quar-terly conference of the Mormon church which will be held at Raymond next week and which will be presided over by President Joseph Smith Senator Reed Smoot was seen at the Park hotel as he was about to start for the train Senator Smoot Is tall probably six feet and one or two Inches In height very upare In build about 40 years old of dark complexion and has a heavy black mustache He uore a light business suit He is pleasant affable easy of approach and chatted freely for a few moments about his people their I prospects in Canada the city of Great Falls and other matters He appeared very much Impressed with this city t SENATOR LIKED GREAT FALLS Although I have been through your city many times said Senator Smoot Smoot this is the first time I ever stopped oft In Great Falls T like your place very much From what I 1 have seen of It I If a very beautIful residence city and I understand it is having n wholesome growth Our people In Canada Well they are doing line Our colonies up there are growing all the time and our people peo-ple are prospering Our party will spend n week or ten days In Raymond and the vicinity looking after our many Interests In-terests there Senator Smoot did not meet Senator Paris Gibson while here not knowing until he was Informed by the Leader Ian just as he was hurrying to catch his train that he was in the hotel managed man-aged by the Senators company On his return he said he wouW endeavor to remain for a day when Theodore Gibson Gib-son promised him that he would be shown over the city BIGGEST MORMON OF THEM ALL While Senator Smoot looks like an everyday energetic business man I President Joseph Smiths appearance corresponds well with the popular conception I con-ception of a Mormon He Is a man apparently between 50 and GO years old I wears a long flowing gray beard and attired in a snuffcolored Prince Albert I coat he looked every Inch the Mormon patriarch Smith succeeded Lorenzo Snow upon the latters death about a year ago as president of the Mormon church He stands on the highest round of the ladder of the Mormon religion and by the rank and file of his coreligionists co-religionists is looked up to With not only the greatest respect but by a feeling akin to awe as well President Smith as well a all the other members of the Mormon party was of lIormon Jart easy approach and talked pleasantly of his trip TEN THOUSAND SETTLERS I will attend a quarterly conference of our church at Raymond said President Presi-dent Smith There Is nothing particularly I particu-larly new at this time regarding our operations there We now have nbout 10000 people within u radius of seventy five to a hundred miles of Raymond and our colonies are constantly being added to Jesse Knight the Mormon capitalist will look Into the progress that is being be-ing made In the construction of his immense im-mense beetsugar factory at Alberta Our new factory will be completed I by October 1st said Mr Knight I have received advices that the beets are looking fine and everything is progressing pro-gressing as well as we can expect We only have about 2000 acres planted this year but next season we will have many times that many acres in beets Our beets have been tested and found to be all right for producing sugar Actual work will begin in the factory as soon as it Is completed and we expect ex-pect to have between 200 and 300 men working In the fall |