The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-28
THE FLATHEAO BOOMING
Hay and Oats in Great Demand
at High Prices.
VERY FEW DELINQUENTS
Only About $1,000 of Unpaid Taxes.
County Farmers Institute Kalispell
Public Library Opening
Business Blocks to Go Up.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
kalispel Dec. 26.-kalispell has at
this time about two feet of good snow
and all the farmers are busy hauling
their crops to town. Many are hauling
il TO Fort Steel as the market for hay
and oats is very good there on account
OF the grading that is being done upon
the Canadian Pacific extension. About
] 900 extra horses have to be fed. ana
with those already in that country and
those now being used there makes a
good demand for hay and grain al good
prices. Hay was selling short time
ago for sos per ton, and oats III proper
ton. When these prices are obtained
for grain and hay il pays the farmers
a good profit TO haul it there and dis
pose of Ii. All the products that 80 into
that new mining country have to 70 by
way of kalispell, as there IS no other
route in the winter time. Sleighing u
good all the way and the freighters
can haul large loads. Mr., Melntire. who
has furniture store in Steel just re-
ceived carload of furniture that he is
having hauled there by sleighs. All the
merchants have their goods come mere,
and at present about 40 different
freighting outfits are doing all they can
hauling freight north.
Fiathead county did herself proud
this year in the payment Of taxes. The
delinquent list is the smallest III the
history Of the county, showing that the
farmers, we'll as others, have money
this year from their crops, when they
had none last year. ouI Of about
Sl20 900 to be collected over sl12.D00 was
paid before the 9th inst, and since that
date several hundred dollars have been
/ paid leaving only about $500 remain-
ing delinquent. Out OF this take S3.ooo
that the Great Northern is conteSting
nd will that fine actual dplin-
quent list is less than $4,000 This Is
| what we call very good showing Tor
one of the youngest counties in the
| state.
Next week will be held the annual
! county farmers institute and Professor
/ Shaw and other eastern professors Will
! be in attendance to help in the work. \
very interesting programme is an
/ nounced. and from the present outlook
/ it will be the best institute ever held IN
/ Fla thead county.
Charles Lindlahr, formerly of I<aiis-
/ pell but now located In the promising
/ mining town Of Sylvanite. in the west
ern part of the county is IN town, ana
| says that the mines now working have
| about 100 men at work. and that they
/ Will be kept busy the whole winter.
/ That great preparations are bling made
for a great amount of activity in the
| early spring: that the people interested
/ and the different properties are all
| making preparations 10 double their
| output and that very busy time -
! anticipated.
The kalispel public library was
thrown open to the public on the 10Th
and the ladies in charge have very nice
quarters 1t is intended 10 keep open
late at night SO that those of the men
working in the day time may have an
opportunity to avail themselves Of the
opportunity offered in the way OF
reading papers. books. magazines. etc
The library starts off with about 60t
books and others will be added as soor
as they can be bought and shipped here
Several new business blocks are tn be
erected in Kalispell in the early spring
one of the blocks will occupy two
whole lots and will be o0xl40. two sto-
ries high, when completed. 1t vii
have all the modern Improvements, ane
will be fitted up for store rooms on TIN
ground floor and lodge room, offices ant
sleeping apartments on the second floor
Several new houses are now being con
templated, and II is thought that 1S9
will be busy year In kalfspell.