The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-08-25
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OF Malta, accompanied by Tom Nc.
Donald were visitors in this section
over night Wednesday. They gath
cred up one of Mr.. Davidson's horses
which had been stolen some time ago,
The horse had changed hands a num-
Der of times and the sesult was that
al innocent party had to suffer the
/ loss of a horse. A warrant WAS is
sued for the man who originally alb
sorbed the horse, but the chances of
his detention are poor, as he left this
country some time ago.
Montana Homestead Some sixty
car loads of beef cattle have gone
forth from this place during the week ,
consigned to the Chicago mark cts.
/ These shipments were made by the
Bear Paw pool and there are others
! to follow soon. Ten car load of
| two and three year old Texas rangers
were unloaded and turned onto the
range south of Hinsdale by the Bear
Paw pool during the fore part of the
week to be wintered.
The Treasure State of Helena
speaks thus of Valier.-Up in Teton
county, within the past year, compar-
atively remote from markets, tapped,
but not traversed by asingle railroad,
there has blossOmed forth a new,
splendid and enormously fructile dis
trict. A few months ago the region
Was a Virgin-prairie: cityless, water
less, almost uninllabite No great
river offered it's perpetual flow of wa
ter for irrigation, no mighty power
plants We're at hand for the running
of mill or factory, for the equipment
OF streets or inteTurban railway.
Millions Of dollars We're required
for the unitication Of this eXpanse of
land. Millions more We're necessary
for the installation of great irriga-
ton system. a railroad had to be
built. Towns had to be founded. a
campaign of publicity had to be car
ried on. Demonstration farms were
necessary. Great reservoirs had to
be constructed, dams built, small
rivers and creeks detected and their
waters stored. 1t was a gigantic en-
terprise, nobly achieved and bril-
liantly accomplished.
| was in Valler when they were
building the first house. The resi-
dence population consisted of the
construction campers of the project
and few labOrers who lived in tents.
That was last summer. Today Val
Ter has nearly thousand permanent
residents. A brick hotel, a grain ell
evator, fine stores, banks, cafes,
churches, schools, shops, and a news
paper thai would do credit to Helena.
The little city stands upon the shores
of magnificent lake. But the lake
is the artificial reservoir of the irri-
cation system that waters the whole
tributary region.
Round about Waller there are now
innumerable small farms, orchards,
truck gardens, country homes. The
back country is being rapidly popu-
lated, reclaimed and cultivated.
Minneapolis Journal Bartha and
Hazel Richardson, school teachers of
Stevens Point, Wis, have adoptad
new, novel method of taking their
vacation trip. They are walking to
Saco, Mont, where they will visit
their brother. They are at present
visitieg with their cousin, Mrs. q
F. Prescott, $40 Fourth st. S. E.
The girls walked from Stevens
Point to Minneapolis and will resume
their journey early next week.
There is no wager or prize in this
cross-country tramp, and there are
no restrictions as to modes of travel
except those the walkers impose up
on themselves. They may ride with
farmers or other persons who are
travelling their way with teams.
They have set November LIST as the
date of their arrival, but they will
take their time and they do not count
on walking more than fifteen miles a
day. Many days they travel as much
as twenty-five or thirty miles with
the lifts given them along the road.
The trip is 1925 miles from Mime.
apolis and the two girls expect no
trouble in covering the distance in
the time they have planned. They
will stay at farm houses or hotels.
While in Minneapolis they will seek
some kind of work they can do on
the road.
The girls carry about ten pounds
of baggage each.
Forty q; uht hO,rc -, tho countv |