The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-07-22

Warning Frankly sounded by a
Big sandian in State Of
Montana.

Plains, Mont, July IA, 1910. II
Friends aud relatives OF Lawrence
county, Kentucky, through the col
umns of the Big Sandy News I
Sill write you. On Sunday morning
March 10, we pulled across the
Rocky Mountains once mere. Al
eight o'clock in the evening we ar
rived at Plains, Mont. a town OF one
thousand inhabitants, Here we To-
Gated as this is the gateway to the
Flathead Indian Reservation.
Now, 1 will state a few facts con-
corning this new country you have
heard so much talk Of First, l
shall say ii is over estimated. 1t
is true the soil is fine, but they have
not the rainfall and climate TO grow
vegetation as 1t is grown in the
East. So far as irrigation is con-
cerEed 1t is only a money hunt
Nine-tenths that buy il don't get
IL. but they have TO pay for II Just
the same, so when a man pays his
taxes and his irrigation he has but
little left. II is worse than a rail-
road tax. This country is on a
great boom, but | am not going to
boom IL to Eastern friends and rel
atiyes, who, without Western ex-
perience, would break themselves up
and with II are liable to. Our
Western lesson has cost us l6
years OF hard labor, and TO tell you
we will make it all right, can't do
II, but ! can tell you | see one OF
the hardest parts OF our life Just
before US. We are making every
effort possible to meet II well. II
we make II all right or all wrong
our pocket book will be as flat as
II a thirteen hundred pound horses
big foot was on II. will say &c
the young man a trip to the West
would be one OF the grandest les
sons OF your life, II might save yor
hundreds OF dollars in later years
| will say to you that have families
don't cross the Mississippi. | will
say to those who are on the West
ern slope OF life, you have no meet
OF this country, you are not physi
cally able TO stand the hardship
that await the homeseeker. Sta,
where you are, stick to your post
is my advice. Folks you have
grand country, but you don't know
II. You have good markets 70
your fruit and vegetables, but yol
don't know IT, Cincinnati, Chicag
and St Paul can't be beat. Me
live Is miles from railroad her
, and market at Billings, 500 miles
and North Dakota 400 miles. Thin
OF that distance
All you need is more pluck an
push. Get up and go. Why East
ern people do better in the West
because they are put under Dos
TO work like the negroes were.
always thought worked hard, bu
| never had the first lesson in har
-, work till this summer. One morn
ing knew | was a little late, S
anxious to be at my post at tn
proper time forgot to eat on
! bite OF bread for breakfast. II tn
men in the East would get stirre
up that way in pursuit of that do
lar there would not only be fe
rich ones. but many. You hay
many advantages they have not g
here. | don't know when | will
back 1t may be a year and ha
or It may be five, but can te
you am coming home to liN
again. | have mixed and minglC
with almost every nationality repr
-. scented. | am not ashamed of II
birthplace. am glad | am fu
blooded Kentuckian. will say
you | shall live and die in posse
sion of Kentucky soil wishing yC
all success, good bye,
MRS. W. II. c. THOMPSON