St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-21
WILLIAM BURCHARD TELLS ABOUT
THE NEW TOWN IN MON
TANA.
WILL KNOCK THEM ALL OUT.
LAND COMMISSIONER PHIPPs GOES
OUT ON TRIP OVER HIS
TERRITORY.
ton Circulars Furnished Read
ing for Railway Men.

William Burchard, a rugged Mon
tanan, came into st. Paul yesterday
on the Great Northern train, and will
remain here several days before start
ing East to purchase machinery for
use on his ranch at Chinook Yester-
day he said to the Clio b e: 81 hail
from q great section of country. The
Milk river valley possesses many nat
ural advantages in the way Of soil, eli
mate and water, which places it in the
front rank of agricultural sections. 1t
has passed through the experimental
stage, and is now entering upon its
most prosperous period.
Under our canal company's system
there will be fully 10000 acres irrigated
next season, and six small canals are
being built at the present time. We
can raise fine plump hard wheat, malt
ing barley, good oats and other grains,
and we need at Chinook, or perha ps
better, at Havre, twenty-five or thir-
ty-barrel mill, a brewery that can
do mailing and an oatmeal mill. Havre
Is the division point on the Great North
ern, and Chinook is twenty-five miles
to the east. A few other industries
could profitably be introduced, in either
town, such as a wooden mill, a wool
securing plant and a creamery. The
valley offers unusual inducements for
such enterprises. AS far as new set
tiers are concerned we can take care
of almost unlimited numbers. New
corners who set out for this section
with funds enough to hold out year,
and horses and wagons and imple-
ments, cannot fail to enjoy abundant
returns at the end of the season.
at will require the first summer to
construct the irrigation bitches and
prepare the land for planting People
who went to the valley six years ago
when it was first settled are now in
moro than comfortable circumstances
and are doing better each year 1t is
an ideal country for stock raising as
well as diversified farming In the
valley settler can locate land free Of
charge, and in case the land he selects
can be irrigated from any of the canals
in operation, he can buy a water right
from the cooperative company not to
exceed 5000 for sufficient water to do
for a quarter section of land
In addition he must do his share
towards keeping the bitches in re-
pair, which amounts to about five days
work year with a team and an out
lay of perhaps $40. When the land is
not already reached by a canal, good
water can be obtained at depth of
from twelve to fifteen feet The coun-
try is full of old river beds, their loca-
ton being shown by slight depres-
sion along the surface of the ground,
and in any of these depressions water
is almost certain to be found within a
few feet Of the surface. The mineral
prospects in the Little Rockies and
Bear Paw mountains along the south
ern edge of the valley are of the best
character. A ton of gold quartz from
the Little Rockies reduced at the Great
Fails smelter netted the owners re-
Gently $656. The new town OF Lam
dusky in the Little Rockies has a pop
ulation of about 200 people, various
kinds of business, and is even ad-
vanced enough to support a newspa-
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