The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-03-04
BOOST MALTA
8. w. Brockway Goes East to
Encourage immigration


lett for tina Twin Cities, in Minn.
where he goes in the intsr.
est of this community and will
extensively advertise and boost
this prolific region. He will
meet many people there who
desire to im migrate to this val.
ley. he goes well supplied with
facts concerning Malta and its
bountiful resources and tho fol-
circular will undoubtedly bring
the results desired:
THE prevailing idea of a ma.
jority of the people seems to
be, that this part of Northern
. Montana is nothing more than a
grazing country that there is
/ not sufficient rainfall to produce
agricultural crops. When the
states of Nebra ka, Kansas,
North and South Dakota were
first settled. the same idea pre-
vailed there. Ten years a go any
one that would have claimed that
agricultural crops in paying
quantities could be raised in the
western portion of North Da.
kota would have been considered
a fit subject for the 1unacy com
mission. but the results obtained
by ultivation Of the soil there
has proven the falsity of the pre-
vailing opinion What has prov
en- true of Kansas. Nebraska and
the Dakotas, will prove true of
this locality whenever this sell
is properly cultivated-even now
the results obtained in the three
or four years last past, with the
poorest kind of cultivation, has
been equal, or greater, than the
yields obtained in any of the
best agricultural states of the
middle west, with the same kind
of cultivation.
"A farmer IN any of the best
agricultural states that would
plant crop in the careless, slip
shod manner that a majority of
the crops in this locality have
been planted. would not expect
to get his seed back. while here,
without any preparation of the
soil to receive the grain, except
the mere plowing Of the native
sod, paying crops of nearly
every kind of grain and veget.
ab]es haye been raised each year
for three or four years last past.
There is no better or richer
soil, or soil that is easier pulver.
lied, and which does not bake,
than can be found in this valley
and on the bench lands surround
ing Malta, or a climate that will
mature crops quicker, and when
this land is settled upon and
titled by class of farmers that
know how and are willing to
work. and do not want to farm
on horseback. Malta will become
one OF the leading grain growing
points in the west. and, instead |
of being a small town, will be
come one of the leading towns of
the state. We have natura, ad.
vantayes here found in no other !
town in the Milk River Valley. |
It is the only point between
Havre on the west and Culbert.
son on the east where an abun.
dant supply Of good water can
be had at a dep t h OF from |
thirty to forty feet; a location
with natural drainage that can !
not be overlowed by the river.
We have better store buildings |
and residences. and more Of
than any town of equal !
size in the valley, and the stocks |
carried by our merchants are
exceeded by none in the valley.
Oar hotels are recognized as The
equal of any between Grand |
Fog KS and Spokane; our ppblic
graded school ranks among the |
best in Northern Montana our
churches are excelled by none
and tens of thousands of acres of |
choice agricultural land sur
rounding us ALL VACANT and !
open to the homeseeker.