Show PRESIDENT HILL BiLL TELLS WHAT RAILROADS HAVE DONE IONE FOR MONTANA GREAT FALLS Mont Aug 14 To H.-To To 1000 persons at the Park hotel last night President James J. J Hill of or the Great Northern railroad spoke c In part as folio follows fol tol- fol- fol io lows vs The people come streaming from the East where they are arc crowded out and there Is no more room They have crossed Dakota as far as the agricultural t tural t ral lands will carry them and now v they are arc going over Montana and In Sn Inon Inon on on the other side of or the mountains Take the little town of or Kalispell where ten years ago we packed food tool In on pack horses to feed teed our engineers This year rear it will pay the company in revenue revenue rev rev- I the third city In Montana That ThatIs Is ls Great Falls is first Butte Is in sec see sec ond and Kalispell third And why is isIt isit it 11 It They had gone gono onto the ground and dug It up and raised crops Your resources resource here your mineral resources while they arc are great those that are e permanent and as ns a consequence consequence conse conse- quence employ men make rolls pay and pay payout out money are arc low grade what you call low grade propositions and their products have o got to be bc carried carried car car- ried ned at al low rates rats You are arc half haIr way between the East and the West Vest We Ye will take care cue of or orthe the transportation transportation-if ir you OU do not take our railroads away from rota us If It you were to go so on without tIm them for a while you would learn to use them well eU and you may be forced to do this There are only two sources from which a n. railroad can make money money money-I I Iam am m going to take you Into Inlo my confidence confidence conn- conn dence now as now as we nave have either cither to ears the money by selling our transportation tion or we have to borrow it and antl If IC we borrow horrow it you have to pay tho the Inter in In- In ter terest st Wo We 0 have built buill roads and antl It has been our custom cudoni wherever there was wasa a likely prospect to push our road rond out and see I if we could not develop the Country We Ye have hare run the Montana Central and now It is a good road I Iam Iam am not ahamed to have anybody come from anywhere to look Jonk at It and it has been able to reduce its rates It 11 has hag paid In thirteen years four dividends divi l the rest of oC the time it has not No Now Nor r we 0 started a L railroad into ma maybo bo you think ou think It Is a nice thing to have havo to run a road to Nb- Nb hart Let me tell you OU we would be glad glatt to turn the receipts over oyer and a n. sum of or money with them to have you rou run It Look at the great rent State of or Iowa Look at Minnesota Minnesota l has haR an income this year ear from her farming products of or over one hundred million dollars This is not turning the stuff out of or the Ground and leaving nothIng noth noth- ing but a a. hole holc In Its place Next year car they can havo have the thc same arne an and you can have the same if It you ou will put your our ground where the water can be he poured over o it It You cannot bring it in your little private ditches The Government Go must do Jt It It and you yon must help them do It If It you do not remember that the population of oC your our State will be he limited and If Ir you ou do clo the population of or your our State will vill he be almost unlimited and your wealth and prosperity will Wm come quicker than you oU know |