The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-11-13
Montana Letter.

The following interesting letter
from Mrs. Dora Farnes Gore was
written to Mrs. Ida Clay, and we are
permitted to publish it, as Mrs. Gore
was former we'll known resident of
| this county:
Broadview, Mont, Oct. 26, 1913.
was sure glad to hear from you
and to know that you were impress
ed in reading my letter in the Re-
porter. Have had several letters
from different ones asking about this
| country. l am sorry SO say that all
the land that lies close to us that
could be homesteaded is taken. But
there is plenty of school land and
railroad land that can be bought at
very reasonable prices The school
land can be leased for 1 year or
more, very cheap. There was school
section sold near us couple of weeks
ago for $50 per acre and lays almost
as level as floor, one man got half
OF 1t and pays for it in crop pay
ments. You can buy land here all
the way from SIS to $36 an acre. de-
pending on the way the land lays
and where it is located
Ground here usually rents for
i'e1'i' liz IldH tlldl ON MS the lana
furnishes the seed for sowing and
pays half of the threshing expense
and takes his half away from the
machine. If the renter furnishes
the seed for sowing he gives a third.
All the renter has to do in putting in
a crop is to disc, harrow. and seed.
mere were numerous plow outfits
and threshers here this year and all
Dn1 to hn
ploWlng being done this fall and
some are not through threshing their
flax yet
There is plenty Of timber in this
country but not very close to us.
Uncle Sam has charge of the timber
land. You can get all the wood you
want for fuel or building purposes,
but can't haul it off and sell it. Our
house and hennery is made of lum-
Der. but Emmett got out logs for our
barn, 14X24 feet, and posts for fenc-
IN our homestead. Our house is
l4X2O; hennery l2xl4 and granary,
Sx2O. And we just got our cave
finished last week, so are pretty COM
fortably fixed now. We want to
build shed for our colts and sows
and then everything will be warm
and coy. Have a fine SOW and five
as fine shoats as you ever saw and
never saw grain of corn, nothing
but wheat and barley. Will butcher a
hog next month and that will beat
paying 25 cents a pound for bacon.
There is land that can be home
steaded 20 miles west OF Broadview
yet and you can take 800 acres there.
II the boys should come out tell them
to go to T. A. Beamans land office
in BroadvieW, and he can give them
all the information they want He
is the best and most honorable land
man in town He helped to locate
US. | see by the Broadview Bulletin
that G. w. Waterman has two relin-
quishment papers for sale real cheap.
He is land man in town too. The
fare is $3.50 from Leon here, but
ii they would get homeseeke1s
ticket they could get round trip
ticket for 20 days and would cost
$35 | believe. There is quite a little 4
small fruit raised here, such as ber-
ries, currants, rhubarb. We set out
some gooseberries, plums, currants,
and rhubarb last spring and have
quite an order in for trees and shrub
berry in the spring. but cant tell just
what is adapted to this country as
the nights are so cool here though
the summer.
| don't see why you could not do
we'll here, you may have skrimpy
time the first year unless you have
plenty of surplus money laid up; if
you have, it will be much better and
come in SO handy. We have got out
of the habit of thinking that Iowa is
the only spot on the map for there
are others just as good. If you have
only got the nerve and back bone to
break away | know you can do we'll
and get good piece Of Uncle Sans
land if you will only come and live
on it. We will soon be on our farm
stead two years and the time has
gone SO fast, really it doesn't see but
few days. | would be glad to hear
from you at any future time and to
hear of you locating near Broadview
Must close now as we will go to town
this afternoon. Love to you and all
inquiring friends