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

~ milwaukee, desires to become the
county seat Of proposed Fa1lon
county, consisting Of the northeastern
quarter Of Custer county. Petitions
to submit the matter at an election are
beng circulated and have been signed
by sixty per cent Of the requisite mum
Der of signers. Wibaux, Ismay and
Terry don't like the proposition, and If
it IS submitted will work for its defeat.
Eastern Montana towns, unheard Of
a few years. ago, are noW Incorporated
cities Wibauz. Dawson county, held
an election a week ago, and the propo-
=sition to incorporate was carried over
whelmingly. Baker on the line of the
Milwaukee. not far from the Dakota
boundary, did the same thing. The
merchants Of these eastern Montana
towns are a progressive lot. They
don't wait for business to come to
them, but go right after the bust
ness.
Wibauz gave an instance of this.
Preston is a town in the northeastern
part Of Custer county, midway be-
tween the Northern. Pacific and MIL
waukee lines, and but a few miles dis.
tart from the Dakota boundary. It
has become considerable Of grain
growing center. Beach, North Dakota,
has had its trade. Wibaux didn't like
this. The merchants there dubbed to-
gether slipped into Preston and erected
grain elevator. Now they have the
trade eorralIed
And the real estate men are just as
enterprising. The sums spent by in-
diVidual firms Aggregates considerably
more. it is said, than that being spent
bg oards Of trade and the commercial
Handsome brochures
and replete with facts and
fgur W, are being sent out by most Of
the larger firms. Birdseye views Of
towns, and the availability Of each. sec
tion for tanning, are. being distributed
among the new eoners.
Real estate firms IN Miles are far
forward in the progressive van. The
firm &c 6. B. Towers. which buys and
sells land il. blocks Of from one thous-
and to . hundred thousand acres, en-
ploys an advertising specialist, C. q
Results are abundantly
manifest, The firm, which two years
ago acquired the 108, 600 acre S. =.
ranch Of W E. Harris. has disposed
Of more than half Of it. Il will close
out the remainder this season. This
ranch Is but one of many in eastern
Montana the G. 3. Towers firm has
sliced up and sold to smaller operators,
who have then sold the land to actual
settlers. The $4,000 acre ranch near
.smay ofG. w. Burt this firm is hand
ing, and it is now being rapidly dis-l
posed Of BY nliddlemen il quarter sec
lion tracts TO settlers
Miles city claims the distinction Of +
: the. northwest. The claim Is f,,rfhar
made that cheaper lands can be Sc
cured u Miles than elsewhere. The
IS, 900 seres vet remaining Of the S. y.
,aaeh, beginning near Miles City and
extending southwark distance Of
fifty miles, Is being sold at Al average
oriee Of ser.n dollars an acre.
Irrigated lands. growing all kinds Of
,rops. and PRODUCING abundant Yields.
,ange II price from tE1irtV to q hundred
IoIlars. an acre. A fact generally IN
znowIlis that probably the Oldest Of
re laro.e ;,rioaf fion bitches i NJ antana.E
! IN Custer county the Tongue river.
tltea Custer county has within It's
}oraers.iit Is said, a hundred thousand
.cres Of irrigated land. Alfalfa is. the
,hief crop, and yields rich returns. but
til richer returns will be those of the
uture, when the business Of winter
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