THE DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



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they are with you in co-operating in any legitimate way and in any legal 

 way. It is so in Wyoming. All the railroads in this great state devel- 

 oped their lines and made extensions in advance of any traffic whatever, 

 seeing in the future the wonderful possibilities of development. 



Immigration. 



"Now, as this system of dry farming is becoming of more interest 

 to the inhabitants, and they are beginning to reap some benefits from 

 it, I predict that the percentage of development will be greater than in 

 any other states in the Union. There is one suggestion I want to make 

 to those who are inhabitants of this country which is maligned so much 

 and which has such a reputation for being unproductive, and that is, that 

 everything in this life goes by comparison. The gentleman in New York 

 who is connected with the financial centers becomes a man of consider- 

 able fortune, but even his fortune Is considered small or great as he 

 compares it with the fortunes of those about him or who associate with 

 him. So it is in all aspects of life. 



"I have been very much interested in taking up the study of sta- 

 tistical informiation in connection with the agricultural development of 

 this country, and in noting the census, and I wish to ask every delegate 

 here to impress it upon his fellows who he is trying to educate and in- 

 terest in the development of this country, to take up these mat- 

 ters and use this system of comparison. Take the census ten years 

 hence and compare it with the census of 1900 and 1890 as to the devel- 

 opment of these Trans-Missouri states, for it is of the Trans-Missouri 

 states I am speaking, the states where this dry-farming proposition is 

 going to work in the next ten or fifteen years, and I predict in that time 

 you will find the largest percentage of development in connection with 

 farming in all aspects than in any other states in the Union. There will 

 be a larger percentage of development in the present ten-year period than 

 has ever occurred in any state in this great country. I predict that 

 Wyoming, South Dakota and Uiah, are the three states which will show 

 the largest percentage. 



"The company which I represent has been a pioneer in the develop- 

 ment of the agricultural interests of the territory it serves^ as well as 

 pioneers in the construction of lines to carry traffic which is produced 

 by that development out of the country. We are with you." 



Railroad Rates. 



MR. McCOLL (presiding) : "Touching railroad matters. Over in 

 Australia when we are holding a Congress such as this — we meet, 

 not to study dry farming, but to study agricultural matters generally — 

 the railroads, upon any delegate presenting his authority from the sec- 

 retary of the Congress, allows tlie delegate to' travel from his hdme to the 

 Congress and back, at half fare. Now I would like to see the railroads 

 do that here. I hope I will be parrioned in making that statement." 



MR. BIDWILL: "We Imve laws in this country which are different 

 from those of your country." 



