The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-05-03
Montana Will Be Well Represented
at the Louisiana Purchase Show.
WILL ASK FOR SUM OF 100000
c. e. Conrad, a Prominent Capitalist
and Ranch Operator of kalispell,
Says Mining Industries Will Be
Featured on Large ScaIe-CattIe
Plentiful This Year.

home this week which is sufficiently
interesting to reproduce and is as
follows:
c. E. Conrad of Kalispell, Mont,
prominent capitalist ranch operator
and member of the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton commission, was at the Ryan
yesterday. He is accompanied by his
wife and daughter, and is on his way
home after a two months trip
through the south and east. He at
tended a meeting of the commission
held at st. Louis last week. Governor
Toole of Montana, was also present
when we get home" said Mr..
Conrad last evening, 1--WE will COM
mence to get our exhibit ready for
the fair, or rather to make prepara-
lions. Our people are very anxious
to have the resources of Montana a
first class exhibit at st. Louis.
I'VE are going to ask the legisla-
ture to make an appropriation Of at
least 100000, when it convenes in
January, and l do not think it will
hesitate about doing it. This is fully
as much as the majority of the states
are doing, and our exhibit will COM
pare favorably with any other.
THE Montana exposition commits
sioners, when they were in st. Louis,
looked over the fair grounds, and Sc
lected a site for the new building.
We expect to have handsome struc-
ture erected, to cost in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. The remaining $751;
900 will go toward the exhibit, SO you
can see that we will have good one.
Of course, mining comes first in Mon
tana, and our exhibit will naturally
be devoted principally to mining, al
though we anticipate showing choice
specimens of agricultural productions
and there also will be a collection of
copper, gold, silver and lead that will
do honor to us as a mining state, and
they will be the very best that can
be procured in the state. We are get
ting an early start, that we may
nave things in readiness by the time
,le fair opens.
81 look for the st. Louis exhibition
tot eclipse anything of that nature
that has ever been attempted, but l
do not look for the fair to open until
1904. The opening day has been set
for May, 1908, and look for it to be
postponed just year, for they GER
,ainly cannot get around any before
that time"
Mr.. Conrad is associated with his
brother, w. G. Conrad, in the cattle
and sheep raising INDUSTRY, and the
brothers control some of the largest
ranches in the state, and have over
a million dollars invested in stock
raising property.
I'VE commence to market our pro-
duct on September 1, and it is De-
cember before we are through ship
ping. We ship all our products to
Chicago, where we are able to get
the top prices. When the stock COM
mences to get in prime condition we
round them up, sort them, and drive
them to the nearest shipping point.
Chinook and Cut Bank, on the Great
Northern railway, are the principal
points of shipment for our ranches.
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pretty expensive article of diet in the
east and middle east. Well, Montana
cattle cannot help out the scarcity
just now, but a little later, when the
great bulk of western cattle is
thrown on the Chicago market, the
prices will probably take tumble.
81 look for prices to be better than
they were last year, however. We
will certainly get at least an average
of cents, while the last season s
output brought only a little over
cents. But in two or three months
the prices of meats of all kinds will
certainly go down, for as soon as
there is an immediate prospect of the
western cattle going on the market
something has got to give.
People in the east hear great
deal about the immense cattle
ranches of Montana, and they come
to have an idea that there is no good
farming land in the state.
of course, it is true that the prin.
cipal Industries of the state are min,
ing and cattle raising, but it would
surprise the ordinary fastener if he
could take drive through either the
Flathead or Gallatin valleys. Both
of these valleys are we'll settled, and
IL is rare that one man owns more
than a quarter section.
"A three-band sawmill has been
erected at Flathead lake, located neal
kalispell, in the center of the Flat
mead valley, and it will be in opera
ton in a short time. 1t will have a
capacity of 100000 feet year, and
greatly increase the lumber output
of Montana. There is the finest
white pine, fir and hemlock in large
quantities, and saw mills are the
only thing lacking.
The lumber business, just at pres
ent. however, does not hold out any
Inducements n the pani