Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-05-04
MONTANA


The eyes Of the homestaaders arr
turned Oh the last empire that remains
to him in the northwest, or for that
matter, III the country. IA undevel
ed principally sixteen million acres big
fully half Of which arabic, fertile ane
we'll Watered, in the counties Of Daw-
] son, Custer and Rosebud has caut his
attention. III great droVes the settler
/ il coming. Land On which cattle ard
sheep ranged last year is being turned
under the share of the ploW. In the
great Beaver Valley, quartering north
aasterly thru Custer county into North
Dakota, 200 steam and gas plows are
tearing up the sod this year. Four
f.yeaTs ago not a settler was in the val-
ley. Today not an acre is left of pub
/ Tic land.
And the change that has taken place
in the Beaver Valley is now under way
in the region just west Of it. Only
last fall the government accepted sur
veys covering q million acres of land
in the heart Of Dawson comfy. The
acceptancy Of the survey had the ef-
feet ot throwing this land open to set
tiers, So great was the influx of home
steaders that half a million acres al
ready have been fled on. The remain
ing half millioa win be entered before
this summer is gone.
Homestead filings are being made Ii
the Miles City land Office at the rate OF
more than three hundred a month.
The figures Of the Office show that last
year more than 8, 500 original home
stead entries were made. The rush
this spring has set in more vigorously
than ever, and Register Albert Kireher
and Receiver O. Aud a1s1fai;ss.sa
tl1at.last year 5 record viii be. .eclipsed.
January LIST, there were II, SO, ,29s
acres ia the Miles Gitr distrietlof IN
appropriated survey and unsurveyed
lands. Filings this year have greatly
diminished this total
III Rosebud county January 1st, there.
were 9ls,392 acres Of surveyed zunap-
propfiated lands, making a total of
/ 521, 818 acres of unappropriated lands
In Custer county there were l,E88,
846 acres of surveyed unappropriated
lands and 3, z88, 72o acres of unsurvey-
ed unappropriated lands, q total of s.
l77. .265 acres of land unappropriatea.
IL Dawson county there were 507,
346 acres of surveyed tnappropriated
lands, and ,l69, go acres Of unsurvey-
sd appropriated lands, 4 total Of 4,
S5's7zi5, z26 acres of unappropria5ed lands.
approximately one half Of this eleven
million acres is suitable for dry farm
ing. 4 fact Of which the .ho1ayoeks
i Dakota word for homesteader seem
% be Eeenly alert, for 50 busy are they
keeping the Miles City land Office that
even the Office force Of four clerks and
ago officials IS inadequate to keep the
work up TO date
A reflection Of this development of
the back country. and the diminishing
stock ranges is found u Miles City.
Forsyth, glendive, Wibaux, Baker and
TnanE Other towns along the lines Of
the Northern Pacific and Milwaukee.
They arc I'll experiencing Al amazing
growth, but there is nothing artificial
or unheaIthss about It. Every settler
who takes up q homestead, crsates an
additional Job in The city. Ina steady
stream literally 5E the hundreds each ]
month. fasteners are focking = to
take these jobs.
Where are you from is the most
iterated question II Eastern Montana
towns Nesghhofs are not well enuf
acquainted get 70 inquire about each
Other 5 families. And while these new
people are N the majority, they are
rapidly being assinailated By the Tlfile
western spirit. The spirit Of the old
DAYS and the CID Wssterners prevail
still. the same genial hospitality, the !!
same broad generosity, the same spirit /
Of kindly liberation, the same dis9osI-
ton 10 accept a man. not on his aTlees-
try or bis aageceaants b1s1 on hilllsel1.
The west insists u It's own individual all I
tn; the man who refuses to be asslf1I1