The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1910-04-29

INC old owners get the present-day
price Tor the land, which is high COM
pared with what they paid for 1t, and
the colonists get choice tracts, some
times with Improvements, often
wholly or partly irrigated, and the
state witnesses the coming of perhaps
. thousand families to make homes on
q ranch which was formerly inhabited
Dy one family and dozen or so tran
sient cowboys or sheepherders.
Even in sections where farming has
been the main business, large farms
are being subdivided and sold In small
tracts. He was q man Of little enter
prise, in the early days when lands
were SO easily acquired, who did not
get title to a section or two. What
he did not farm he held for pasture.
These large farms are now being sold,
In part or in whole, to newcomers who
will cultivate them carefully and the
result will be large increase in the
total yield.
The railroads have been the most
important agency in developing Mon
tana as farming state. Montana Is
now crossed by two transcontinental
lines and two other great systems
reach it by branches from the south.
The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific have built many branch lines
and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul, the latest east and west line to
cross the state, is getting ready to
conduct feeders. Other trans-conti-
mental lines have been surveyed, and
a road has been built from Armstead,
Beaverhead County, to Salmon City,
Idaho, which is suspected to be the
first of great railroad system whose
identity has not been disclosed. The
railroads are keeping pace with the
great development Of the state which
they are aiding; branch lines are be-
ing surveyed and arrangements made
to take care of the immense freight
in farm products which this state will
soon originate. In the near future
no part of Montana will be far from a
railroad line. This fact and the vast
area of fertile land not yet placed in
cultivation assure the greatness OF
Montana's future as an agricultural
state because you couldn't keep home.
seekers away from such land If you
tried, after they have learned about
it, and a great many have already
learned that the average crop pro
duction Of Montana's soil is greater
in all the staple crops than any Other
state and that the only reason why ii
is not now among the first five states
in annual valre of products of the
soil is because so few Of its acres have
been planted to crops.
In every county of Montana are
splendid opportunities to buy i'm
proved lands at prices that are very
lOW IL lIlclI Value - w NC NOCCAAuIACe
by what they produce. Lands il
Montana producing annually crop
greater in quality and value thar
first class farm lands in Missouri, low;
or either of the Dakotas, may now b.
bought at half the price such land.
are selling for in the latter states.
The older counties of Montana arr
filled with such opportunities. The.
thave room for many times their pres
ent population; and those who pur
chase farms now, besides finding
profitable employment and getting
large yearly returns, will realize thu
increase Of land values which always
follows an increase in population
They will be spread also many dis
comforts and hardships which the
settler in the range will have to meet
The purchase of an improved Mon
tana farm, at the prevailing prices, Is
about as good an investment as this
country offers.
Gently. The fair will last three DAYS