| Show I PRESIDENT TALKS ALKS T AT A T HELENA Helena Mont dont May special train over the tho Northern PacifIc at SiSO SO 0 this morning on schedule time An Im Un Immense mense monso crowd was nt Rt the to greet the president Around the tha station n U cordon of soldiers had been stationed while i 1 battalion of ot tho the Ih United States tate Infantry from Fort Har liar Harrison Harrlson rison ison was drawn up opposite the train t flattery A national guard com coin commenced tiring firing a presidents salute on arrival of ot the train I Among the tile delegation at th the station elation were ere many old time western friends of ot Roosevelt One of ot the lint first persons he Inquired about flan John JOhll Willis hunter huntor and trapper of ot Thomp Thompson son Mont with whom ho he camped years oars ago In this state After an nn Informal reception re at nt the tho i station President and Secy Seey leob accompanied by Gov and Mayor layor S entered carriages C s and Ind the parade moved to the capital On tho the way tao procession passed several thousand of ot school children massed m In front of ot the tho high school building The fhe main audience was at tho the capitol where the tile president made mode a 1 3 t from the grand stairway to 10 tomain tomain main entrance In the course of ot the speech President ent said Rid PRESIDENTS ADDRESS It Is a 11 great pleasure to come through this state and to see He legibly written for tor the most mOlt unobservant to rend read assured promise of ot a R future great greatness greatness ness I sometimes think that you yourselves ourselves do o not altogether realize i how great that future will be Le Your mines count for much your ranches ranche 1 count for much but most of all 1111 l Is gt go f Ing lag to be done lone by the Ibe water voices Good good and applause and slId In two ways was In the first place thanks thank to the th rapid tall tail of ot the rivers from the mountains there thre Is a well nigh In Inexhaustible exhaustible source of at power lower In your our which will certainly be tiled In Inthe the lie building up of at great manufactures We Ve are going to see lee great manufacturIng I Ing lag centers centes here in Montana taking ad vantage of ot the power of at your waters oters In the next place Illace those thos waters will wi be b used under wise vise schemes of Irrigation until you make whole state bloss blocs blossom blossom om like the rose You need first of ot all to distribute the tile water vater In space through the Irrigating ditches and then to it in time by storage reser reservoirs volts so ao as to keep Iop the tho Hoods that run to waste at one seaton ceason for tor use uie at the eBBon when wh n they thoy are aro most moat mot needed need tile the national legislature Anti And Congress t tie has ha not of rent recent reent years er put Jut Upon the tue statute kooks books any an low law ns M wine I 1 as as U the national Irrigation act of ot a year ear ago applause U it I was 11 the beginning of or the he scheme of ot using aright the tho waters which have been len and as all of ot allowed to K go to waste al you ou know when 1 Irrigation becomes beme an accomplished fact and the waters wal rl are ar used In accordance II with the right principles of ot Irrigation Irrl lon we always that l I is a ft very wry poor pr substitute fur for It Applause and an laughter I the W WI We have ive pawed pasSed In Irrigation of preliminary experiment There Thee Is I no question of ot what at can ran be done dOlo by byI 1 tho tile It The question merely Is as al to I as nl to the menus mels of ot tanking making It U mot most effective and In my m Judgment development within our the tile greatest borders the greatest development not noton lot loton noton on th h seacoast of the United l States during UMI the next half hal century will wi be l the development of ot what have havo been called caBe the arid aId and anti semiarid lands hands under tho the application tl of or the principles of oC len Irrl Irrigation gation gatlon applause and I 1 wiy 11 mt one thing with emphasis In Ill II endeavoring to s Si cc cure the adoption of at the Irrigation law lawI I curf WIS VIS met with protests from people humid regions who be believed drilling lit in I the b that the building up of agriculture ture In an Intensified I form In arid ard r lol through Irrigation would be detrimental to 10 them theta After the address te the president was wa escorted Into the state talt house hOllst where tonic lon place an informal reception repton In which h former ronner Senator Thomas H U Car Cartel Cr tel te and nd members mor of at th th the Montana leg legislature le legislature lure took tok part part After a short hort drive over or the city the president lent and party boarded the special s al twin trim which had been transferred to the Oat Great Northern track and at 1210 1 1 0 the train left for tor Dutte Dute |
