Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-29
With 2 000y0 1000 ashel Wheat Harvest and Big Crop Plartee
for Next Year, Youthful Judith Basin County %SSts Pretty

Observation-Disclosures
community club, the scene of many
gatherings. where in certain instances
thousands have been fed.
Good Yields in County
More than $50. 900 bushels of wheat
already have been marketed at Stan
ford this fall, with 10000 bushels more
yet to come into market. Though the
average yield in the Stanford section
was around 80 bushels to the acre
there were many farmers who harvest
ed fields that went from 40 to so
bushels to the acre. 4 Barlow had
one field that averaged better than 10
bushels: Oscar Anderson. Eugene
Hetts, Steve Smith, John A. Wilson
and many others had yields of from
80 to 30 bushels. On some small test
fields, the new kanred wheat went as
high as IS bushels to the acre. Sid
Stevens. west of Stanford, harvested
u bushels of oats per acre from one
field, and some of the other farmers
in the same neighborhood, who have
not yet threshed, expect heavier yields.
This fall Judith Basin county has
in the largest acreage of winter wheat
in the history of that section of the
country. AT least 40 per cent of the
acreage has been put in on summer
titled ground. Most of it already is
up and well out of danger of winter
killing. Condition of all crops near
Stanford and the other towns in the
county are excellent. Farmers are
looking toward next year with special
enthusiasm.
Windham is the "Huh"
Winham ~advertises itself as the
hub of Judith Basin county. It is
located in the northwestern part of
the county IN the Sage Creek bottom,
surrounded by farms and ranches. Its
townsite was filed in 1907. Perhaps
the person who most readily recalls
the early life of the community is
Lester Hamilton of Great Falls. who
went there before the railroad was
thought of. Mr.. Hamilton describes
the section as the best location for
ranchlng in the country.
First only a few large ranches were
scattered over the Judith Basin, the
principal occupation at that time be-
ing mining. and the greater part of
the population was up in the noun
ta!ns, but as time went on, more peo-
pie came in and settled and in the
last 10 years the country has been
greatly developed. and many other re-
sources uncovered.
The mining town of Lehigh was
started after the building of the Great
Northern railroad in 1918 and 1919.
Grain raising became the chief money
crop. and has slowly developed under
good and bad conditions until. instead
of the single car shipments that were
made. there are now upwards of go
900 bushels of hard winter and spring
wheat shipped out of Windham each
year.
Winham's Enterprises
There is no better grass coun-
try in the state than upper Sage Creek
valley. and there one sees large herds
of cattle and sheep which have been
pushed back from the valleys by the
farms.
W.niham is growing slowly. and
through the efforts of Il few of the
citizens of the community will con
tinue in its growth. There are three
general stores, the Windham Mercan-
tile company. Miners Brothers and the
Farmers & Miners; one lumber yard
and hardware store, this being the
Lumber company; one bank.
the State Bank of Windham. one drug
store. the Windham Drug company.
wherein is located the postoffice with
Duncan Gillespie as postmaster. one
land Development company. the Judith
Basin Development company, with r.
c. Bricker, manager; one barber shop.
with George Bishop, proprietor: two
garages, the Basin garage. o. A. Bech-
told. proprietor, and Miner & Sturms'
garage; two hotels, the Windham hotel
and the Copper hotel: one blacksmith
and machine shop. with ]. T. Jen-
sen, proprietor: one wood working and
carpenter shop. /. W. Snew. proprietor:
one pool hall. the Star pool hall; one
lunch counter. with A. R~eimsneider.
two elevators. the Windham
company with 10000 capacity.
system, large cleaner and feed
mill. also the Rocky Mountain Elevator
with 10000 capacity; one livery and
feed barn, with Chris Knerr. proprie-
tor: two halls. one being the Odd Eel
hall and the other the Gillespie
nall: one newspaper, the Windham
Leader, Independently. with C. II.
Smith. proprietor and editor.
To Build New Church
Windham has an exceptionally strong
school and two years high
school course. with prospects that a
lew building will have TO be built an
year. as it now is very crowded.
The Windham Presbyterian church
s getting ready to build a new build
ng. and this may be done before win
.er weather sets in.
At Windham is held the Judith
county agricultural exhibit. and
t is hoped to have an agricultural hall
~ another year that will be a credit
o any county.
The Windham school, with Herbert
Nildman principal. has a picture show
every Friday evening.
Good roads lead through Windham
,ast and west. the town being on both
he Custer Battlefield hiway and the
trail.