Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-04-27

back couple of miles from the track
one gets into q grand country. all grass
ed and settling up very, very fast Al
Of the land there has sort of dry ap-
pearance until it has been broken up,
and even in spots wh9re it locks the
driest yoa will find it very moist an inch
belo Y the surface.
We spent three and one-half days
motoring over the country, and we av-
eraged better than one hundred miles
day, and drove back aa far as fifty miles
from the track We found the roads
very fine, in fact, you can dive any
where with any kind Of an automobile.
Coming in LIST Thursday to Miles City
in f0rty-six miles Of road we met seven
new gasoline tractor blowing outfits 60
ing out Oh the road and we al go saw IS
many as twelve Of these outfits work
ng in the fields together with Ia arge
number of six horse team outfits. The
wheat laet year yielded from twenty
five to fifty bushels per acre, and oats
forty to eighty bushels per acre. We
saw a number Of large corn fields and
saw number of samples Of the corn,
and it was of very good quality.
Alfalfa grows almost as weed in that
country and we saw large number of
fields, some running as high as two
hundred acres. We found the water
in that aection very fine, and did not
find bit Of alkali water anywhere.
However. we notice some Indication.
Of alkali in few spots on the land The
country is we'll watered and drained,
and will in very short time resemble
the state Of Iowa very much. Land
seekers are very numerous in all of
the towns of any consequence, and we
were very much surprised to find that
there were more land seekers coming
from the West from Washington and
Oregon than there were from the east,
The fact 10 that Montana il the last
frontier and is the last great west, and
there is no question but what it will
undergo a wonderful development in
the next ten years, and it naturally
offers wonderful opportuniti es now
Miles City, Montana, is becoming a
wonderful metropolis. 1t is q city Of
eighty-dve hundred people. 1t is be.
coming a wholesale center. 1t leads the
world as q range horae market, and
raw wool market 1t has a large num-
Der of three and four story buildings
and $500, 900 hotel, and it's bank de-
posits exceed S4, 900, 600 It has over
three miles Of ornamental clutter lights
over its business section and out into
the residence section. It's store build
ings and Offices are thoroughly modern
and large electric signs are in evidence
everyW re. They have q very active
Chamber Of Commerce or Commercial
Club that pays their secretary $500 8
month, furnishes him q stenographer
and automobile and porter to take care
of the Office. The Office they occupy
costs them 500 month. All of the
members meet for a weekly luncheon
every Wednesday. They have board
o directors of twenty-five mem 05rs
with all lines of bu ,iness represented,
an ! hey are eu ely q lot of hustlers
They have q very large modsrn Y,M.C.
A building and also large modernB 2.
0 E (Glk4) home, each of these build
ings bang three stories high, and
any Of them ls larger than
our court house They have fine schools,
and churches of all denominations
Two trans continental railroads.
the Northern Pacific and the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, pass
through there and the city bids fair to
double it's populate in the next ten
years Land prices in that section
range from $40 to $50 an acre. The
h mesteads within fifty miles of the
railroad are all gone except the most
undesirable lands, which will never be
taken. There is a military fort, Fort
Keough, within two miles of Miles
City, and the government owns eeveral
thousand acres of land there. They
are cultivating large per centage of it,
p Practically raising all of the forage and
grain necessary for their horses. The
pla.e however, now is almost deserted
as the troops from there are now in
Mexico.
Forsyth is the next city of any i'm
portance west of Miles City about forty
five miles. 1t is another modern little
city of $500 inhabitants, surrounded by
very rich lands. 1t has a very Gifted
appearance with all of the city advan
tages, and has the same two railroads
and is developing very rapidly. Case
ine is 80 cents a gallon. Wages are
high in all lines and A G. Able from
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