The Harrison times., 1911-08-19
Isles Of Iramn

AlAN LEI -At-Ni-s 49, 80 y u -
Editor Times:
Having time still on INV side, will
devote few liEes 10 things met in
Montana. This is strictly an irri-
gated district, and the government
has a reclamation station here at
Huntley and owns in reserve a good
many thousand acres cf sage brush
land.
The water supply is taken from
the Yellowstone River.
! There was an excursion over the
reserve Yesterday, and while it was
not sweeping in its invitation. it
was so liberal on general lines that
easily became one of a party of
visitors to all the best points OF
interest, including a nice dinner at
the grounds of what is known as
the demonstration station. All veg
citation adapted TO this part seemed
to be growing into perfection under
the management of a specialist pro-
vided for each separate division.
For one specialist had charge of all
cereals, and another had group of
vegetables. These were grouped in
this wise: Cabbage, caulifiower, let
tuce, etc.
Since opening the reclamation sta
tions much of this land has been
purchased from the government and
thousands of tons of sugar beets are
grown on this territory and reduced
10 the refined article at Billings.
Fifteen tons per acre is good Yield
and the land sells at $50 per acre.
The labor is done principally by
Greeks. Italians and Japs. Dismiss
ing a further discourse on this sub
ject till the future, ] pass on to finish
this letter by enclosing an unfinished
painting OF the social condition of
this part as have viewed it from a
sober, unbiased viewpoint.
If there was ever a time when the
West was more morally rotten than
it is today. it must have been in pos
session of race whose history Time
has blotted from the annals of man.
kind.
have not the time, nor would |
be allowed space to put before your
readers the hideous picture Of the
social evil whose criminal trail
broadens as it leads westward
away from the door of that white
hag known as the Kerry woman. of
San Francisco, Gel, behind whose
gloomy walls is hourly being fasten-
ed the chains of the white slave
traffic. If you do not know the
Kerry woman now, you will when |
write my story.
You know there is no Sunday in
Montana, and hardly anywhere else
in the great West. Saloons are
open 365 days in the year Every
little bob-tailed town is resting on
the financial base of beer keg and
kangaroo Bourbon
The brand of booze circulating in
the West as Tracy outlaw is as
fatal as lightning, and while it may
not dispense with ones vital organs
so quickly, it reaches the victim at
longer range and greater precision.
! went into one Of these "Will you
walk into my parlor places?' in
Butte and disposed Of about
spoonful of his condensed cu.sed-
ness and then walked around the
square before got breath below
my collar button. was told after
wards by a person who carried on
his nose the receipt of large whis
hey transaction, that ! should have
taken a small swallow of carbolic
acid after each drink OF the Montana
fluid menagerie.
drink some yet, but ! conhne nv
appetite to Yellowstone water, when
can find a place clear enough to
avoid swallowing cactus burrs and
granite moss.
As the Prohibition wave moves
west, it will find Montana an Alps
across its path. But of course Ma
poleon crossed these rugged noun
tains on his way to conquer, and in
these United States IS marching a
greater than Napoleon. The Ameri-
can Temperance movement will rec
ognize no Alps J. H. DERRlEux.