The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-08-31
Amt It The Truth?

Samuel Blythe, we'll known t,
many of our readers as the author O
"Who's Who and Why" and eth,
Senator's Secretary" in the Saturda,
Evening Post, has recently purchased
two thousand acres of good agricul
tural land in the Upper Gallatil
Valley. While in Helena recently ht
was interviewed 10y the Helen;
Record and his familiarity with ant
expression of the states resources
would inspire the faintest heart will
new courage. In speaking of the
land recently acquired Mr. Blythe
gives the following interesting talk
"Sell it? Not on your life; not fol-
one hundred and fifty dollars an acre
this minute.
"Why, man, Montana needs a good
swift kick to make it realize what il
has in it's own front yard. Never did
l see such a peculiar state of affairs
More wheat per acre can be grown
on Montana land than any place else
i'll the country, yet, you people won't
stick pillow in the ground. I'm
going to raise cattle; that gentle.
mans job, you say. You stick UP
your noses at the thought of break
! ing the land.
81 was born and reared in an agri-
cultural community, the Genessee
valley of New York state, when
was boy, the banner wheat growing
section of the county. In it's palmiest
days it would never give the produce
tion that can be obtained here. And
back there today and in Iowa, Illi-
nols, and other great farming states,
the man owning one hundred and six
ty acres of land is rich, is Il nabob.
This land must be fertilized. given the
same minute care of flower garden.
"But, here, where bigger crops can
he grown, and on sod ground, you
people wont turn a hand to develop
the greatest agricultural empire in
these United States. Between thirty
and forty million acres of land i'm this
state are waiting to be titled. to be-
come homes for thousands of people.
And you Montanans use it for graz
ing sheep and cattle, and for pros
pecting.
lat Mammoth Hot Springs recent
~ | met William G. Rockefeller who
represents the Rockefeller money in
the railroads.. He told me that he
had never realized how wonderful
TINS state actually is, it's immeasur-
able possibilities Of development.
All his life lie had been laborinp I'M
der the delusion that it was a waste
OF mountains in which men dug for
mineral. "A more enthusiastic man
never met. He declared that this
state is potentially the greatest agri-
cultural state Of the Union; it only
needs developm ent.
- "And you Montanans are lust as
sound asleep in another way: you
have no conception of the states
possibilities for summer resorts. 1t
is sWelter, swelter, all summer long
all over the east, Washington, New
\ DIRK, Chicago, and their sea shore
ana mountain resorts. | you had
some get up, some commercial push,
each summer you'd have the eastern
dollars flowing out here in a mighty
but you apparently don't care.
on don't appreciate what you've
got. When | left Washington the
temperature as around a hundred,
md then the humidity must be con-
'idered, seventy or eighty higher than
n Montana. When reached Nam
moth Hot Springs the temperature
vas seventy, the air bracing and
sparkling, and one felt alive to the
niger tips. And the service at the
lotel is as excellent as can be OBJ
AIMED on Fifth avenue. The new
canyon hotel is the most attractively
original structure in the world, bar
zone. Yet dare say you can 90 up
Main street here, and find ten leading
citizens who have never been through
he park.
"It is Europe that appreciates the
I ellowstone yark. Hundreds of them
come to this country simply to visit
t. The Germans know more about
Dark and it's sublimities than do you
people of Montana. Sixty per cent.
If the foreign travellers are Germans,
hen come the English, the French,
he Swiss and the Swedes. Last |
week flushed Turk in the park.
MI the way from the Bosphorus he
anne to see Wonderland.