Fergus County Democrat., 1911-02-28
Soon Musselshell County Will Be a
Reality and Roundup Will Witness
Consummation of Great Desire.
Big DOINGS MARCH 9th
Commercial Club Making Elaborate
Preparation for Entertaining Many
Distinguished Guests.

Tomorrow Musselshel county will
become county actively and will
take its place with the other counties
of the state. 1t will be some months,
however, before the machinery of the
new county will be in smooth run
ming order.
The great energy injected into the
fight for recognition by the people
of Roundup, certainly deserves such
reward as the people of the Miracle
of the Musselshell" will witness to-
morrow, when the new officers will
be installed and the machinery of the
county of Musselshell will be set in
motion.
The following officers will be
sworn in tomorrow: Commissioners,
NJ. NJ. Klein, w. c. Jenizen, L. c..
Neace; treasurer. A. A. Morris; as
SCISSOR, +. K. Parks; clerk OF the dis
trict court, w. G. Jarrett; clerk and
recorder, w. F. Dralle; county at
torney, Desmond O'Ncill; supcrin-
tendcnt OF schools, Maude Griffin;
sheriff, J. l.. Fisco; surveyor, E. K.
Parkinson; public administrator, O.
r. McVey; coroner, w. II. Brissen-
den.
Celebrate March 6.
The Roundup commercial club are
now busy making elaborate arrange
ments for great celebration to take
place there March 6, at which time
many OF the prominent men of the
state will be present and participate
in the celebration OF the birth Of the
new county. Among those who will
be present to welcome the new coun-
ty into the fold are Governor Norris
Lieutenant Governor Allen, Senators
Edwards, George, Stout, Representa-
bers of the legislature Judge +. X
Chcadle and David Hilger are among
the local prominent men who viii
also be special guests of the club
The banquet, at which the orator,
will flow as freely as the wine, will
be known as the Foundation of Mus
selshell County Banquet" Will
such an array of silvery tongued ora
tors on the program as shown above
it goes without saying that th'
foundation OF Mussclshell count,
will be laid with lasting friendship
born Of good will
New County's Resources.
] Musselshell county was createt
February II, 1911, and will begi,
business tomorrow. The new coun
ty has an assessed valuation OF 81,
millions Of dollars. and having abou
los miles of Milwaukee main lin
track, As miles OF Billings & Nor
thern main line and much side-track
| There is approximately l,63O,0Ot
acres Of land in the new county whie'
now has population OF only 8,OO
people, OF which 5000 are residents
OF the towns and mining camps anc
5000 on farms and ranches.
| The lands of the new county. eli
into subdivisions for classification
are:
Irrigated land ..s4-.5=..... .4...-.....= Al ,2N
local and timber lands. -.-...-~67O,O ,OO'
Farm lands. settled 400 .OO
Farm and grazing. vacante-~-.-1O, ,OO
\. P. lands. unsold - &c. ,OOt
State lands, unsold ....-.-..l ,OO'
The figures as to the population
when compared to the vast area o
Musselshell county. will show at
glance that there is an enormou
amount OF room for more farmers
!, as the figures show that only 4O6 ,M
!, acres are settled on. leaving LIZA OO
acres of unsettled land in the coun
ty. and very large portion OF whicl
can vet be bought at low hgur
or filed on under the government
, homestead acts.