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Highway, Development Convention at WhitefishWhitefish Joint Conventions Get Behind Every Manner of Project Promising Development of State’s Interests— Next Meeting Is To Be Held at Wolf Point—F. B. Gillette President—Logan Pass Road Wins Support.Expanding interest and growing vision have been the outstanding features in the three-day highway conference which closed at Whitefish last Saturday. Meeting of the Northern Montana Development association, the Montana division of the Roosevelt highway association, and of the western division, including Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, were included in the conference.R. J. Moore represented Wolf Point and this section and reports a splendid meeting marked by enthusiasm. The change of sentiment toward the Logan Pass road as a side tour supplementing 'the Roosevelt highway was one of the chief features of the convention. The next meeting was secured for Wolf Point which of course was gratifying to our delegates.Plans that will be of far-reaching influence were matured at this meeting. Resolutions relating to high freight rates to the intermountain territory, endorsing the Great Lakes tidewater project, urging construction of a highway over Roosevelt pass, endorsing the Portland 1025 exposition, urging cooperation with the forestry department in highway construction in Montana and an increased budget for the Roosevelt highway were adopted.Sepcial resolutions were adopted, thanking the Great Falls Commercialclub and Scott Leavitt for the helpful aid given in the past, and expressing a special appreciation of the interest displayed by Great Falls in the development of northern Montana.Leavitt Hit* KeynoteThe address of Scott Leavitt, representing the Great Falls Commercial club at the Friday morning session was one of the features of the meeting. Opposition that had developed to the Logan pass road in Glacier Park has disappeared, and the organizations represented here are supporters of that project as supplementing the Roosevelt pass road.Representatives were present from Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Duluth and Portland represented the extreme points of attendance.F. B. Gillett, of Hinsdale, was elected president of the development association; E. M. Hutchinson, of Whitefish. was elected president of the Montana Division of the Roosevelt highway; with IL B. Tyson, of Glasgow, as secretary of both organizations.Wolf Point was selected as the place for the next annual meeting of the two Montana organizations. Eugene A. Cox, of Lewistown, Idaho, was elected president of the western division of the Roosevelt highway and Newport Washington was selected as the 1922 meeting place.Greenfield Assure* G. N. Aid Charles D. Greenfield, of the agricultural department of the Great Northern railway, assured the delegates that the Great Northern had a most friendly interest in the work of these various organizations.The opinion was general that a new spirit of cooperation was necessary, as the general development and tourist traffic in Montana and the whole northwest would come as a result of plans made at the meeting.The commercial tourist and military importance of a road over Roosevelt pass between Glacier Park and Belton was one of the main themes and steps were taken to enlist a coast-to-coast support of this project in every state through which the highway passes. Recommendations were made to the various state organizations to impress this matter upon the attention of their congressional delegates.
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Wolf Point Herald
Wolf Point, Montana, US
Thu, Sep 15, 1921
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