The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-26
1T is PROVING ITSELF
The Land Tributary to Great Falls Is
Prolific Of Much.
WHY PATRoNIZE THE EAST
When at Your Doors All That Is Re-
CURED to Supply Domestic
Wants Can Be Produced
Rich Bench Lands.

GREAT FALLS. April 25.-The agricul-
tural possibilities of.Cascade county and
the remaining vast territory tributary to
Great Falls are scarcely realized by l per
cent. OF the population of this city. 1t
has been only a year since report made
to the first farmers institute OF Cascade
county showed that the people of Great
Falls were sending out of the state for
agricultural products, moro money than
is represented by the capital stock OF any
bank In the state. Tho agricultural fair
given by the ladies of the Presbyterian
church last fall showed that a radical
change had begun. The magnif1cence,
the extent and the variety Of the exhibits
convinced oven the most skeptical that
Cascade county bench lands can feed the
people of the county. The reports of the
Royal Milling company have proved an
even greater surprise, and at this day,
scarcely three years since the general
settlement of farming lands began near
Great Falls, F. w. Webster, of the firm of
Churchill& Webster, states that his firm
and other grocers are shipping produce to-
the eastern markets. Carloads of produce
have been shipped to Aberdeen, S. D.,
and other points and efforts are now
being made to find purchasers in all points
way, outside of the Twin cities. Mr..
Webster says that sales could be made in
the latter cities and St. Louis If it were
not for the commission men, who keep
the greater part of the proceeds and are
liable to draw on the consignor for freight
charges.
= Great Falls merchants are paying much
higher prices for home eggs than for the
imported eggs and the supply is rapidly
growing to meet the demand. The Royal
Milling company reports that, judging
from their sales of seed-wheat alone, the
acreage sown this year will be four times
as great as that sown last year. In addi-
ton to their sales, many who raised wheat
last year saved seed, and their sowing
will greatly increase the total acreage.
= Judge w. c. Lee of Kibbey, who is in
the city, states that in the vicinity of Kib-
hey, which is the garden spot of this
county,. farmers are diversifying their
crops. They are giving special attention
TO the breeding of hogs and fine stock.
Already much pork has come in from
Kibbey, and the industry has just begun.
Poultry and dairying are engaging the at
tention of more farmers every year. The
growth of Great Falls, to which all North
ern Montana is tributary, is affording a
constantly enlarging market and the
county of Cascade, despite the scoffing of
those who will not believe the evidence of
their senses, is becoming an agricultural
community, contributing to the support of
those engaged in the many other indus
tries of this city. As the city, the growth
of which Is continuous, develops, the
market expands.
Realizing this, the lands of all Northern
Montana are'being settled by experienced
farmers from Eastern states. The re-
suits of their labor are surprising and the
county fair to be held at Great Falls next
October will show that thes predictions of
those who devoted particular attention to
the agricultural possibilities of this Sec
ton of Montana have begun their fruition