"Listen to the political races that are taking place nationally and 

 statewide. I don't think you'll hear a single candidate address the 

 problems of energy without saying energy conservation must be the 

 cornerstone of our energy policy." 



DOROTHY BRADLEY : There are only a few things that have concerned 

 me about our discussion here today. One is, Hubert White mentioned that 

 maybe he didn't belong in today's discussion. I think we know that unless 

 we get the most diverse points of view in all of our discussions these 

 days, they are not going to be worth anything because that's what we 

 have to do to find the direction we are going to take in the future. And 

 second, he said something about representing the middle-of-the-road. Well 

 you see, I think I represent the rational, reasonable, middle-of-the-road, 

 so maybe in our discussions in the next few days we will define what 

 middle-of-the-road is in Montana in our energy future. 



So this morning I am the one on our panel from Butte and part of my 

 discussion is "How the West Has Fared." I wanted to take just a few 

 minutes of my discussion for a backward glance because I think when you 

 assess everything, the West has taken something of a beating from the 

 corporations, from the government and from us, the people. I think we 

 are all familiar with the stories of the cattle barons, we're familiar with 

 stories of the ill-advised and government-promoted Homestead Act that 

 brought steel plows and lots of people who didn't understand the arid 

 northern plains to this part of the country and how that ended in a mass 

 abandonment and tremendous suffering on the part of the people. But 

 we're in Butte today, and I think that it's clear that the most colorful 

 stories, the most interesting stories, the fun stories, are in Butte about 

 the corporations. I think everybody here, to a certain extent, is familiar 

 with these but they say that good stories are worth repeating so I would 

 like to indulge for just a few minutes. 



Hinzey was the famous German engineer who immigrated to Butte and 

 bought one little mine. And in his very innovative and creative way, he 

 generated what was called the Apex Theory, and that is that ail the main 

 ore veins, according to his theory, apexed above the surface of the land 

 right over his claim. And so this, according to his theory, gave him 

 license to burrow down into the very rich and prosperous holdings of 

 Amalgamated and to dig around there and take out their ore, because he 



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