The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-02

farming. in Montana. Our farmer
thinks he is badly off If he does not
average so bushels of oats per acre
each bushel weighing 40 pounds, or
net weight of 1000 pounds per
acre. If judgment is used in market
ing, an average price of 81 per hun
dred pounds can be secured. The
cost of production is about 81 per
or nearly the total amount of revenue
received by the eastern farmer for
his crop. If the eastern farmer
wishes to combine stockgrowing with
farming he is still more handicapped.
he is obliged to pay $3.50 to So for
of the best pasture land there to pas
ture an animal during the growing
season. Then there is from four to
nve months which he is obliged to
feed continuously. Our Montana far
mer pays nothing for his pasture dur
ing the summer, and if he lives in a
progressive community, where every
settler co-operates in handling their
stock he is able to combine stock
growing with agriculture on a large
scale, merely having his stock at
home during the winter months and
| feeding only a month or six weeks.
The Montana farmer will probably
| put valuation of from SIS to $25 on
his land.
The value of good agricultural land
throughout Montana is advancing
rapidly. This is especially so at Bill
ings, Bozeman, Missoula, Kalispell
and at Chinook. This is caused by a
steady immigration movement into
these points, creating a steady de-
mand for the land 1t will become
very valuable during the next ten
years and certainly represents one
of the safest and best investments
to be found in Montana today. OF
course, in making an investment in
land one must be experienced, and it
is safe to say that anything that
such men as I. D. O'Donnell of Bill
ings, G. H. Campbell of Great Falls,
j. H. Edwards of Kalispell, or w. B.
Sands of Chinook would recommend
would turn out all right to the inves-
tor About the most unfortunate
thing that could occur to this state
at the present time would be the
booming of worthless, dry barren
wastes and disposing of the same to
eastern people. This very thing be.
ing practiced in the past has caused
Montana to be looked upon with
\ great suspicion by eastern investors
and they have gone by Montana into
Washington and have stopped in
North Dakota and made large invest
ments in land in those states which
does not compare in intrinsic value
with thousands of acres of Montana
irrigated lands now being offered fol
sale.
The greatest factor in the present
4 Washington and Dakota immigration
movement is the eastern real estate
man. They have visited these states
have hastily looked them over, Sc
cured options on large tracts which
they are commissioned to sell, retain
ing their commission of 81 per acre
, They have returned home and repre-
sented these lands as a veritable gar
| Zen of Eden and have sold to theil
: acquaintance. Much of this land i!
: that they represent it to be, bu
: am afraid that some of it is other
wise, in fact, l am acquainted will
territories being sold in this manner
which l would not care to invest il
| after an acquaintance of some 15 O
5 20 years.
r Every citizen of Montana VIII,
: wishes to see it prosperous shoult
> endeavor in every possible way to sc
/ cure the settlement Of every vale,
/ of this state, and should aid in tn
( promotion of cooperative irrigation
) canal companies, and in localitie
where there are large tracts of Ian,
] being held for stock purposes an,
: which can be irrigated, to seek il
: every honorable manner to have Their
: divided up. l do not believe that W