The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-27
PICH TOBACCO PLAINS COUNTRY
Interview With Rev. c. A. Snow Rel
alive to That Section.


Rev. C. A. Snow, Methodist pastor
at Tobacco rains, who has been as
sisting Rev. J. M. Eastland in a SER
les of revivals at the Libby Metho-
dist church. is great enthusiast on
the future of the Tobacco Plains
country, and of Flathead county gen
orally.
While here he gave a very inter
esting account OF the developments
going on in that country, and says
the people up there are very prosper
ous; that the new railroad, which
was built last year by the Great
Northern. was just what the people
wanted, as it afforded them a mar
ket for the produce of their farms
and ranges. Heretofore they have
been handicapped on account Of
transportation, but now that this
feature of the problem has been
solved, the future will find much
more rapid development than has
taken place in the past.
Mr.. Snow says that everything can
be raised at Tobacco. All kinds of
cereals and garden truck, and some
of the finest fruit to be found any
where is grown on the trees in that
section of the county Especially is
this so in regard to apples, for which
the Tobacco Plains country has long
/ been famous. All the small fruits
grow in great abundance, and the
chances are very much in favor Of
! the district becoming very large
fruit producer in few years. Many
are going quite extensively into the
fruit raising business, and the num-
Der of acres or farm lands is very
materially increasing.
/ The Tobacco Plains country is one
of the finest sections of Montana. 1t
is a section of about IL by 20 miles
in area, with the trimmings added.
and the soil is very fertile. Much of
it requires irrigation and extensive
bitches have already been lug
throughout the section. Many of
these enterprises are on a much
larger scale than many are aware of,
) especially when the transportation
features of the situation are remem-
bered Until last year there was no
!, outlet to the country. In spite of
! this fact the farmers there had faith
that this would eventually come, and
year after year continued the con
struction of their bitches. The re-
suit is that the entire country has
+ been made to blossom like a rose.
;. The last year has witnessed a very
| large increase in the number of set
: tiers there, and the indications are
S good for many more to make their
e home there. In many of the valleys
' surrounding the Plains are patches
: here and there which give promise
/ OF being made into valuable farms
: and these are being sought out and
|. taken up. The timber is being grad
J. ually cleared and every year will wit
ness larger increase in the number
Il of acres of titled land.
/ There is an abundant market fol
S all the produce of the country. botl
II IN the mines surrounding Libby ant
g those on the other side of the inter
a. national boundary. which are produc
l. ing an ever increasing quantity o.
& coal. Good prices are uniformly pai,
II Tor produce and labor. and in al! re
le spects that section is very desira
u. Die one in which to locate There ar,
a good schools and churches and man,
y other things which older communi
IL ties enjoy.
IL IN addition to the farming land
"a of the Tobacco country, there is