The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-04-20
SATURDAY. APR1L.2O. 1901.
MORE RANCHES NEEDED.


to cultivation and Improvement than
the Flathead valley; or more generally
speaking Flathead county. The
many settlers who are now coming in
underterred by the fact that
government land conveniently lo4
Gated is becoming scarce, ara
probably banking on a pro
position that the state lands are like.
ly to be offered for sale. The class
of settlers coming into Flathead this
year are as as a rule we'll and fully
prepared to buy lands from the state
on the installment plan which is usu,
ally in vogue. An assurance that the
splendid selections owned by the state
would be sold in the near future would
bring hundreds more settlers in here
even this year. The petition address.
ed the state land commissioners by
the citizens Of Flathead looks to an
amelioration of the existing conditions
and it is the earnest wish Of every
one with the interest of the county at
heart, that the petition may insure
speedy and favorable action.
Nothing tends more to upbuilding
and making permanent a town like
Kalispell, than thickly settled trib-
utary country. The town, it's stores
and merchants and enterprise, with
out an increasing country population
cannot hope ii continue as prosper.
GUS as it has been for the past two
years.
That there is no other town in Mon
tana, barring Butte, which has flour.
ished as has Kalispell may not be sue.
cessfully controverted. And that rap.
i'd growth and prevalent prosperity will
increase and multiply exactly in propor-
ton to the new settlement in the val
ley. Unlike individual business the
affairs of city cannot remain nor
NAL. In the very nature of mum
cipality, there must be one of two
things, progress or retrogression
Electric lights, water power, new
buildings, all came from the progress
of the town and every improvement is
only preparation for the looked for ad.
vance of the city business. Vacant
store rooms and empty dwellings
would in short while cause the city
prestige to wane and in a little time
of years, or perhaps months, Kalispell
might drop back to the old village
days. when coal oil would be rich IL.
Illumination, and the sheriff would be
the head of government when he was
not busy selling out the bankrupt
stocks of the busted merchants.
This doleful interlude is only in ex-
PLANTATION of the necessity which every
where exists for procuring the settle
ment of the country by farmers and
ranchers who have learned in the
school Of adversely the lesson of thrift
and are prepared to assist Kalispell in
keeping to the forefront as the most
enterprising city of the valleys. If
only the state can be prevailed upon
to let loose of these idle lands, AMI
make them easily obtainable by the
farmers who have some money to ad-
vance, the future of Kalispell is az
bright as our mountain sunbeams and
the county will lead in thrift and af.
fluence.
OF the hundred families who have
settled in the immediate valley this
season, not one but may be depend
ed upon in the near future to attract
to them other families and friends
they have known in the east, but who
are now deferred by the scarcity oi
tillable land.
OF our climate, mountain scenery
and deer tracks," it is unnecessary to
expatiate. No matter how good, bad
or Indifferent Though it is par excel
lent, the climate should chance to be
profitable living which are open to