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Show GuYERiNOR WILL NOT PRESENT HELENA, Mont. Aug. 15. Governor Gover-nor Edwin L. Norria today Btated that owing to the fact that the board of army engineers appointed to Inspect In-spect tho reclamation projects would be In. Montana at the tlmo of the Salt Lake conference of the western executives, he would be unable to attend at-tend the conference but the governor made public his views on conservation conserva-tion and on the program which has boon arranged for th- conservation congress, tho governor said: "Thu stales ol the northwest have by far the greater proportion of tho country's natural resources that are to be conserved and this section of the United States Is therefore vitally in the every plan that tends to the conservation of these resources. "It has been expected that the ex-rcutlves ex-rcutlves of the northwest would bavo uu opportunity at the St. Paul conservation con-servation congress' to present what has come to be known as the 'north- vestern Idea' which epitomizes the views of all the northwestern governors heretofore held at Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, and which Is, in brief, that the natural resources in very large measure belong to the state rather than to " the federal government, govern-ment, and their administration should lc In the hands of the states themselves. them-selves. "However, it oe-nis 1 hat the pro-giT.m pro-giT.m tor the conservation congress bus bpcn mado up, and there has been practically no provision made lor tho presentation of the 'northwestern 'north-western idea.' In fact It looks almost al-most as if thTe has been studied effort ef-fort to prevent the presentation of the attitude of the northwest on this I'jiportant question. Under the clr-c.imstnncrs clr-c.imstnncrs It may well bo doubted whether the conservation conerosR tn be hold at St Paul will result In any good to olhT states in the northwest, north-west, group. "At any rate, the holding of the Salt Lake conference In advance of the conservation congress makes tho fornmr an exceedingly important feathering and I should be very glad to attend were conditions different. It now appears to me that more dl re-ct Rood for tho state may bo accomplished ac-complished by accompanying the airny onRluefis over I ho Irrigation projects to be examined this vseek." |