The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
WHAT FOLKS DO
IN FLATHEAD COUNTY
Hundreds OF Farmers From Eastern
States Are Settling Near Kalispell-
Every Industry Is Prosperous.


Kalispell, Sept. 25.-As the Flathead
is having the finest fall weather known
here for years, we are busily engaged in
harvesting the grain we have. The
yield will be much larger than was an
ticipated, and in many respects will be
of very good quality. The late rains
damaged the grain to some extent, es-
pecially considerable of that which was
cut and in Shocks. But the damaged
grain will not be so damaged that it
cannot be marketed, but will be of an
other grade. The threshing machines,
of which we have about 20, are all as
busy as they can be- running until late
at night during the bright moonlight.
Almost all the grain is cut, and the
farmers are busily stacking so as to be
free should rains set in which is not at
all likely just now. The yield will be
as large If not larger than it was last
year, and 1t will keep our mills and ele-
vators busy handling the same. Last
year we raised over 1000, 900 bushels of
grain, and from present indications we
will eclipse that figure this year. The
outlook Is that good prices will pre-
vail, and should such be the case many
of the few farmers that are now bor-
rowing money will be able to get out
of the hole and have money to bank.
Hundreds of new farmers and their
families from the eastern states have
arrived here this year and have bought
farms, taken others up from the gov
eminent and many have rented with
the view of buying. All are well pleas
ed with the outlook and are fully salts
fled with their new surroundings.
The sawmills are all busy cutting logs
into lumber and shipping their output
as fast as 1t is cut Some are running
late shifts and are crowding their mills
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are now employed in the mills and this
force will increase in time rather than
decrease, as the mills are finding a
ready market on the outside for their
product.
The county has a pest house about
three miles distant from Kalispell and
IS cases of smallpox are confined at
the house. They are given the best of
care and attention and all are improv-
ing rapidly. All fear of a spread is
now over and the quarantine has been
lifted from all the districts quaran-
tined. Several families that have been
exposed were taken to the pest house
and all fear from that source of a
spread are allayed.
The citizens of Kalispell and Flat
head county are making great prepare
lions to give company H a rousing re-
ception upon their return home. Com
mittees are at work arranging mat
tiers and in a very short time sufficient
funds will be forthcoming with which
to pay all expenses.
More building is going on in Kalis-
pell this season than ever. ] H. Ed
wards is putting up brick block 50XSo
on Main street, and it will be completed
this fall. Bogart & Hollensteiner have
erected a handsome brick structure on
their lot on Main street and John Sell
built a two-story brick 25x140 on his
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the court house building. Many beauti-
full residences, both brick and frame,
have been built and more are building
1t is almost impossible to get carpen-
tiers, and in fact to get any kind of Ia
borers. All that want work can Sc
cure it, either in Kalispell, at the mill
or on the railroad. The Great Northern
is paying $L75 per day for extra men
and find it hard to get men at that fig
ure. The farmers ans using all the men
they can get and find it utterly impos-
sible to get sufficient help to gather
their grain.
The county commissioners have ad-
yertised for plans and specifications for
court house to cost about $4,000.
There is great need of a court house
building, and it is to be hoped that
Flathead county can see its way clear
to erect good one. Considerable oppo-
sition to the mode of procedure of the
commissioners is manifest, but as yet
no expenditure has been made by the
commissioners. They are considering
way of building and are getting good
plans.
man by the name of Wood, hail
ing from the east and claiming to rep
resent great sawmill industries, arrived
in kalispell some time ago, and has
been busily engaged in locating parties
upon government timber land and ask
inc tt.ar.. - L. 6DE 60,
his services. In return he not only To-
Gated them upon the land, but in many
cases promised to furnish sufficient
means with which to purchase the land
from the government and to pay them
in addition all the way from 5000 to
$3.50 for the land They do not think
that the man is sincere, but TINT he is
getting the SIS out of his victims and
then when the time comes to pay the
government for the same he will have
left the country and they will be out
not only their S25 but their right to
take another claim should they be so
disposed when they are able to pay for
the same. The man has been told that
he could buy additional soldiers script
for about 81 and in large quantities
such that he represents that he wants
for much less. That being the case
and he refusing to purchase the same
it looks like he was intending to desert
his victims and let them hold the bag.
BY buying that script he would save
great deal of money over the plan he is
now pursuing. AS it will be only
short time before some will have to
make proof it will then be learned
whether he is sincere in his promises.
The land office in KalIspell is watching
his mode of procedure, at the same
time informing all those doing business
with him Just what he could do by buy
ing script and about how much he
would save by so doing, and informing
them that they did not know whether
he was sincere or not.