The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-04-13
AN INDIANA COLONY.

AN INDIANA COLONY.
Large Party Of Settlers Will Make
Homes Northwest Of This City.
The trainload of settlers effects
which reached this city Thursday is
being unloaded from the r by its
owners, and transportated to locs.
lions in the Teton country about
twelve miles northwest Of town. 1t is
a big job to get their belongings sort
ed out and put into shape for hauling
to their future home, but the newcom.
ers are great workers and have made
good progress since the train was
switched to the local sidetrsck.
A large part of the furniture aud
househould goods is being temper.
srily stored in the big wool ware.
house, q section of which is also be.
ing used ss q dining room and for
shelter. For two days after their Ar.
rival here, q Burlington chair car
and sleeper were at the disposal Of the
women and children, but these ere
hauled away IS soon as other accom-
modations had been secured. There
we're 81 people, mostly women and
children, in these passenger cars when
they arrived here, many of the men
folks having accompanied the freight
train that brought their household
goods. Three large tents are furnish
ing accommod atoms for q few of the
families.
Most of these new arrivals come
from the vicinity OF Huntington, Mar
kle and Button. populous towns in
northe eastern Indiana, and will be fol.
lowed by others from that part OF the
country. Thirty additional carloads
| of settlers effects are en- route from
thai section, and are expected to ar.
rive here the latter part OF next week.
| The new citizens are a pleasant and
prosperous looking lot of people, and
come to this part of Montana with a
determin alton to make good If condi.
tions give them a fair show. Many
/ of them will live in tents for q few
weeks, while they get q little blowing
done, leaving the building OF houses
until the late summer or fall.
Some OF the members of the colony
have invested in q big gasoline power
blowing outfit and q we'll drilling
plant, which will be put to work as
soon a. they arrive here. Agricul-
tural implements of various kinds,
wagons, buggies and other ranch
accessories form part of the belong
iugs in each outfit that is being un.
loaded. Two pianos. an American
organ and an automobile are included
in the miscellaneous assortment of
goods that we're brought by the new
a%rrivals. Nearly every family has
several crates OF chickens, the total
number of which must reach into the
thous ands.
The departure OF these Indiana PEG.
pie for q new home in Montana was
the subject Of this write.up in the
Huntington Ind. Times:
When the next crowd of people
leave Huntington county for the newly
opened territory in Montana, q train
of 20 cars will be filed with house.
hold goods and this train will 90
straight through to Fort Benton,
Mont, where the Huntington farmers
will begin preparations for new homes
in the west. Forty families will be
included in the exodus of Huntington
county people and quite q colony of
Hoosiers will be established. Yester.
day the men interested In the new
claims in Montana met at the Hunt.
ington hotel and made final arrange.
ments for the trip. The Erie road
agrees to furnish 20 freight cars suit
able for shipping household goods
and livestock for the new farms, and
these care will be made ready next
Thursday, the following Monday the
the train will pull out of Huntington,
and forty men will be on board wav.
ing their hands goodbye to the birth.
place of most Of them. The men will
stay with the freight train that the
livestock may be cared for, and the
railroad companies have agreed to
make the trip Of 100 miles 10 Fort
Benton in not more than elk days.
Upon the arrival OF the train at Fort
Benton the men will begin unloading
their goods, each assisting the other,
and then On overland trip Of several