The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-04-23
EASTERN VALLEY co
Shows In Full Measure What
Scientific Soil Culture
VIII Accomplish


that has become prosperous city
near where the Muddy mingles its
turgid waters with the Missouri,
was in Havre the middle of the
week. Mr.. Mathews is not
stranger 10 this community aud is
we'll known by the old timers.
Yeats ago he was deputy county
surveyor under Mr. Arnold and
while in that capacity laid out
some oi the roads now leading in o
Havre. says the Havre Plaindealer.
Mr. Mathews is a booster. He
knows ofthe opportunities offered
by the land and the sureness OF sue
cess to those who engage in agri-
culture IN northern Montana Dur
ing the course OF visit TO The
Piaindealer he said:
"To one who has not been in
Culbertson fos the past two or three
years IL is impossible tc conceive
Of the strides OF advancement Ia ken
by that city. Where. but a short
time ago there was but one mer-
camille establishment, there are
now three, besides ten stores which
confine their business to special
lines One OF the stores now
there, three years ago did the
business Of about $40. 600. aid the
past year the business showed a
gain OF just six times the volume
OF three years ago. Not one busi-
ness institution has failed in the
town IN the past three years Our
prosperity rests upon the farmer,
as does the prosperity of every
town in the valley rest largely
upon the ranchmen.
at may take three crops Of set
tiers to settle up the lands. That
has been our experience, and as
lar as | have been able to learn
that is the experience OF every new
county. The first settlers are
tioaters who ATE out to get land
and sell relinaulsbments. The
next ones come in for the purpose
OF speculation. and the third settle.
ment is made by those people who
want the lands for homes and are
willing TO farm.
There are many exceptions to
this rule. Some OF the men who
came IN there three years ago are
still there aud they hav. made
plenty Of money and SO improved
their farms that they are worth
from S., 600 to IS, 900 for 90 acres.
Mr.. S Day, one of the large
stockmen OF the early days in that
vicinity, and he was a good one and
made II pay 2 handsome dividend,
IS today reaplng more profit from
his farming operations tnan he did
from either his sheep or cattle.
Last year he cultivated and reaped
a splendid cIop from five hundred
acres, and understand tina. he is
going 10 farm one thousand acres
this year | could multiply in.
stances OF this kind indefinitely
almost.
.1here is one thing that we had
to contend with, with which every
community, | presume, is afflicted,
and that is the old-timer He is
honest, probably, but he is Ger.
taiply a knocker. He tells the
stranger that farming can't be made
profitable. The fact that IN mos,
instances he has not experimental,
or II he has, the work has been
done in crude way, often does
not occur 10 the settler, and the
tlmh ones are driven away
.About Hayre aud the BeaI
Paw mountain country the rainfall
is equal TO or greater than We have
al Culbertson There is no rea
son why the things that have beer
done with us cannot be duplicated
here, and upon a much greater
. scale. for you have a greater area
a OF country tributary to this cit,
3 than is adjacent to Culbertson
e The reservation is upon the ives
4 OF US, that cuts of a vast territor,
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