Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24
INVESTED $15S;
CLEARED $4,000
THREE YEARS WORK PUTS
WHITEHALL FARMER
ON HIS FEET.
Tames Wild Land and Makes Good
Farm of It; Neighbor Pays Him
$4,000 in Cash for His Holdings;
Will Spend Winter in California.

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Three years ago Charles Gassman
arrived at Whitehall. All he had in
the world was a team of indifferent
work horses, a Balm wagon of ancient
vintage, $14S in cash ana a wife. He
had driven across the state of Mon
tana looking for a home. He wanted
to get as close to Butte as possible, be-
cause he had a business head on his
shoulders and he had his eye on the
Butte market.
He found an open piece Of land or
the Little Pipestone creek and filed
on it. He built himself a little dug
out-home. and a dup-out stable for
his horses and started in to tame mis-
wild possessions.
Had Good Neighbors.
Tt was hard work. His patience was
sorelv tried. He had very little non
ev when he had paid in his filing fees,
But his neighbors were GOOD to him.
and the merchants Of Whitehall. where
he traded. kent him supplied in the
necessities Of life. He paid when he
could. which was not often. hut Gro
dit on the books of Whitehall business
men comes easy to the man who Is
known TO be irving.
His work of tanning the wild land
and maxine it productive was snccess
full. The first year he accumulated q
few chickens and a cow or two. and
his livestock he%an to accumulate
around him. That wear he barely
made q living.
His first crop of ~nseouen was
POTATOES. He sold his potatoes in
the Butte market at a good price. His
early potatoes went to satisfy the an
pefites of commands who affect such
establishments as the Chenuameqon
and he spent his winter NIGHTS irvine
to figure out the ri@ht wav to pro-
nounce the name of Casev's famous
restaurant, where the good livers oI
Butte are fed by machinerv. with :
tramwav to carry the Hdead wood
away. IT was about al the amusemen.
he permitted himself.
Then He Took Stock.
He prosnered. When he harvested
his crop this fall he paid off pver'
cent he owed. He took stock of him
self. Most of his ACREAGE was undp.
cultivation. He had built a fairl,
comfortable home. There was no hot
water system or heatin~ in II. hrt h,
had o GOOD base burned. He he'd raiset
a flock Of chickens. six colts, five hea.
of cattle and a how. He also had
nassahle harm. His inventory WIS en-
tirelv satisfactory. He had severe
lans around the world ahead Of tn
wolf and there was monpv TO his ere
dit in the WhitnhalI bank. He wa
inst THINKING Of hitchin~ his new mare
|, that he had houoht no at the Belmon
! ranch the week before. TO the rnhho
/ tired huogv and driving to Whitehall
I to see Harry Huhnr about nnttinm p'no
trio 1iohts IN his house when Mrs. WI
liam Sloeman of Piedmont drove ny
5 at wont 70 hwy this nlacp." sh
{ said "What will YOU take for it i
) cash ,"
/ "7or con have II for $4,000" re
; n1ind The hompmaker,
Z "T will oive Won 90. OOO said Mr..
: Slnnman The GOOD har~ainer.
s "T will take IT," said Gassmar
2 Tho dnoI wae made. The newt dav III
6iman who had startnd IN +hrnn vnars HI
{ fnrn with a e%ani+ol Of @1Ee loft fl
5 California with = draft Of go 400 IN h
Z norket. He will spend the winte
) +hnre.
6 Not CO he'd for on Investment {
&75o. Tharn are thousands Of "
~etances Of money! &c uriotlv made !
: Montana. Rut most Of the farmP'
GRO wisely holding to their posses