Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-30
KANSAS AND kONTAKA.

The wheat of Kansas this year beats
the record. The crop of the state is esti-
mated at 100, 900. 900 bushels 1t will real
ize for the farmers between seventy and
eighty million dollars. They have had
to send East for 20, 900 harvest hands,
who have been taken into the state by
the railroads free of charge. Thousands
of men in Kansas nave made a fortune
this year. The stories Of big 'raises"
made in the gold fields of Alaska are no
more marvellous and not half so true as
those told of the Kansas wheat growers
Many farmers will clear this season
from $40. 900 to $4,000. Most of them went
to Kansas a few years ago with nothing
save energy and muscle to rely on. Here
are a few cases which go to show the
possibilities of wheat culture in the Sun
flower state:
d. v. Miller, a farmer who lives six
miles south of Salina, will harvest 1OO,-
600 bushels of wheat from the 1000 acres
which he has in this year. 1t will cost
him perhaps 80 cents a bushel to place it
Oh luS IIldIhel. AL lHe pISSelt IIdIhtl
price of wheat he would cleal sov, 900 on
his crop and every time the price ad-
, vances one cent Mr.. Miller's profits in
crease 81, 900. The rise in wheat for the
first three days of the last week will net
! Mr.. Miller $1,000, enough to purchase
fou quarter sections of good land. Yet
he settled in Saline county a few years
ago with practically no money, and ne
has made all that he has in raising
wheat.
Peter Brack, who ives in the north
western part of Barton county. owns Az
quarter sections of land, or $500 acres,
and 16 years ago all he had was a team
of mules. He is worth 5000, 600 and has
$50, 900 in a Great Bend bank. He made
his fortune growing wheat and feeding
cattle in connection with it.
Elias J.. Everleigh came to Barton
county % years ago and worked by the
day at anything he could get to 40. he
homesteaded so acres on Walnut creek.
! He now owns 10 quarter sections of land
and is worth 800, 900.
In some favored spots in Kansas the
yield is 40 bushels to the acre. but the
average production is 25 bushels, which
is considered a remarkable co in any
of the great wheat states. Fertile as
are the Kansas wheat fields, however
there are millions of acres of land in
Montana which can discount them
There is no land in Kansas capable Of
such a wheat yield per acre as is thai
of the Yellowstone valley. Only within
the past few years lave the possibilities
of Eastern Montana as a wheat growing
region been understood. Both in th'
quality and amount of the cereal prod
uced the Yellowstone valley is unexcellet
in all the world. So far but a small frac
ton of the land available has beer
brought under cultivation, for it take!
time to divert the waters OF the Yellow
stone river and establish the c%apabilitie,
of the soil. Within a few years, though
the farms of Eastern Montana will lay
a story of their own to tell which will
pale that of Kansas and prove that tn
land of quick fortunes is not Klondik
and Cape Nome, but the richer valley
which lie along the Yellowstone and it
tributaries. Montana's fame will not al
ways be that of a mining state alone
I The surface as well as the interior of tn
earth, the plains as well as the noun
tains, will enrich the people who com
to his great commonwealth seeking tn
favors of Dame Fortune: and whe
comparisons shall be made betwee
Kansas and Montana as to the produc
I ton of their wheat lands, acre for acre
Montana will be first and Kansas wi
. be nowhere. That Montana is the Treas
ure state will be owing to it's farms a
e we'll as it's mines.