The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-05-30

cray, Inc laHu is STdIulV addpIeu To
the cultivation of near,y all small
grains and better hay is not raised in
any country in the world. Oats
| raised In the Camas country easily
rank with the best produced in any
part of this hemisphere and the yield
from this soil is enormous. A Camas
rancher recently said that if his oats
crop did not yield better than so
bushels per acre he fet that provi-
dence had been unSind to him. WhA>
other state in the union can boast OF
a better producing district than this?
The Iowa farmer, who prides himself
on his ability to coax As and SO bushels
from his well titled prairie land be-
leves that his property is yielding the
maximum to be produced from any
land in the world and complains not
when his acres fail to produce 35
bushels of oats each. OF course the
Iowa man has the advantage over the
Montana rancher insofar as the length
| of seasons in the middle states is
greater than that governing the pro-
| ducing period on the Camas prairie
| This condition enables the Iowa
| farmer to mature a corn crop, a thing
which cannot be done in Montana
However, this advantage is more than
| offset by the ability of the Camay
| rancher to produce rs bushels of the
best small grain raised on earth to
every acre of his land ard the raising
of more and better timothy and clover
hay than the middle states farmer
ever dared hore for, Anything less
l of hny- tn t1,n N
| the Camas district is regarded as
| poor CROP. So nutritious is this prod
| uct of the prairie that cattle which
| are fed on it during the winter months
| fatten rapidly and when spring opens
are ready for the butchers block.
| Asked to give an ori1ion as to the
number of cattle raised on the grazing
| lands in and adiace~t to the Ca1nas
| country a rancher of that region re-
| Gently said that there We're more than
| he cared to estimate. but stated that
| n,anv mere would be raised if the
| prairie ever was blessed with railroads
! ever which to ira nspoT the stock to
/ fine most nva''ah1e market He said
that the drawback of having no roads
| over which TO move TIE cattle had a
decided tendency to curtail the pro-
ducton.
Potomac a smol village dependent
for support upoo the ranches aud 'oe-
| ring camps o. I've terr-t"rv surround
ing the mace is sitnat"d practically
in the heart cf the Camas prairie, ard
| draws trade from widn area. It's
nearest available railroad is the North
! crn Pacific 1T Ronne~. % miles east.
| From Potomac the Traveller ~eAs prob
/ ably the very hest view of tie vast
| ness of the Camas pro irie. is broad
ceres stretchne in all d'rec' ions as
! far as the eve can see, tie prairie is
f'anked on tie ~so"th. so"theart and
/ to the north bv sNme of the most
dense1v wooded trarts Of lard to he
found in the ro~ Invest. THAI in the
/, immediate south and southeast is
owned bv tie Ri" Rlackfoot COMPANY,
a cornoration which is e"en now,
planning to enter the hills with a line
of railroad t~ndi 40 about five miles
i, LENGTH fror,, tho lire the comnany
has now in operation from the Black
foot landing - miles along the west
ern edge of the airie far un into the
canvon to thu nnrthWa"d T, 10 also
reported III Potomac that the logging
road will be constructed with many
branches which will enter the timber
A lands in that neighborhood and that
the big corporation Expects to add to
it's annual cut during the coming sea-
sons
/ Passing eastward over the Cames
prairie, the Clearwater stage line en-
ters the WOO 7and controlled by the
w. A Clerk interests. No one has
, been found who can say exactly how
much of this timber the Clark people
own. but it is vast in it's extent. Here
is timber into which man has scarcely
penetrated. Spruce, Yellow pine and
tamarack trees rear their proud and
stately beads high in the air in a
seeming effort to reaeh higher even
than the tops of the mountains on
whose slopng sides the trees have
been rurtured for many decades 1t
is estimated that countless hundreds
/ of these trees have reached a height
of It's and even 200 feet, and are from
four feet to five and half feet
in diameter at the base. The timber