Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-08
Start Campaign to Get Farmers From Crowded East
Interested i'm Montana's Most Productive Farm Lands
n T A A R LANDS

hand to be prepared to meet
an influx of real farmers to
Montana from crowded sec
tons in eastern agricultural
states. They point out that
Montana farm prices haye new
err been inflated and right now,
compared with the productive
ty of lands in the corn belt and
other sections of the United States,
federal census reports show that Mon
taan lands produce more with a lower
valuation than any other lands IN the
United States.
The point is also made that Mon
tana's corn production. which is stead
lily growing will prove a surprise 10 the
Iowa. Kansas, Nebraska. Indiana and
Ohio farmers. The silo and the dairy
COW are slowly but surely paving the
way for many small farmers. More
colonization plans are under way in
Montana right now than has been the
case in many years and with the pub
iicity given the state over a wide area.
by editors of papers belonging to the
National Editorial association, invest
ors are turning to the Treasure state.
We Have the Values
Montana has the values and the
Great Falls realty board is prepared to
show them to farmers who understand
farming and who are coming to Mon
tana. not to make a stake but to
live here and to grow up with the state.
These values. which the members of the
realty board point out. will be eagerly
sought for within the next two years.
have been carefully compiled and are
held in readiness for the buyers.
The realty board also has gone a
step further. They are not content
TO wait for buyers but are now en-
gagged in an active newspaper adyertis-
ing campaign in selected eastern and
middle western agricultural areas. to
bring the buyers to Montana. 1t IL
only natural that the Great Falls board
is emphasizing land values and oppOr-
t~unities for investors in property with
in the trading area of Great Falls.
Their offerings cover a wide field,
including nearly every phase of agricul-
tural activity in Montana. If the buyer
wishes any certain kind of land a pio-
neer has paved the way for him and the
realty board has an ideal listing. at a
fair price. awaiting his selection. In
handling these listings. the buyer Will
be quoted the same price for any par
ticular piece of property, no matter
which member of the board shows him
the land. This is done in an effort to
prove TO the prospective investor that
one city in Montana at least has al
active. fair and square organization.
Remarkably equipped stock ranches. !
diversified farms. dairy ranches. truck
gardens. grazing land, farms specially
equipped for raising hogs. sheep or |
poultry, or even privately stocked trout
ponds, are in the listing, as well as
"A number of the better grain lands in
various sizes. from half sections to !
5000 and even l0,000-acre tracts, are
to be bad.
Splendid Stock Ranches
For the wealthy man who wants TO
give his son a real start in life. the
Great Falls realty dealers have some
exceptional opportunities. These are
in the larger stock ranches. lying near
forest reserves, with cheap summer
grazing permits, plenty of water. stock
barns for fine cattle and protection
from winter storms. Many of these
properties present additional advan-
tages to the investor looking years
ahead, in that the acreage is large,
much of it virgin soil and all available
for intensive farming if at any tim
the growth in population of the state
cuts down the range and makes small
farming necessary III sections which
are now given over almost wholly to
cattle.
One of the smaller properties listed
for a buyer who wants to start in the
cattle business is an SS0-acre tract,
with 200 acres irrigated and well seed
ed in timothy. with 300 acres of addi-
tional tillable land. II has running
water. shelter for $50 mead of stock,
with a good log bunk house and a log
garage. The property sells for $4,000
with q payment of $4,000 down and the
balance on terms. Adjacent grazing
and adds to its value.
Garden Tract for City DweIIer
Within two blocks of the city limits
of Great Falls is a three-acre garden
plot, fronting on the Missouri river,
the owner of which for years supplied
a restaurant with fresh vegetables and
defied the high prices. He has gone
to a larger city to repeat the effort on
a larger scale and will sell the garden
tract with q modern four-room home,
insured for $1,000. his truck garden,
which has produced potatoes tomatoes.
rauliflower. corn. lettuce, celery. beets
and some small fruits 10 the buyer who |
will pay $500 and the balance in quar-
terly payments of $50 each with in
terest at s per cent. :
A diversified farm near Fort Shaw,
offered now at SD. with adjacent
farms selling at $50 an acre, lies in a
well irrigated section % miles from
Great Falls.
To the fancier of blooded cattle. here
is an opportunity. This property of
$50 acres, 225 acres Of which are irri-
gated. is within one mile of Conrad.
1t is well equipped with a modern home
and barns. all tillable, 90 acres in al
falfa, and has been yielding splendid
grain crops every year. The owner
lives in town and will sell it to n real
at $50 an acre. 1t can be di-
into three farms.
Here Is IN Exception
In the Pendroy country. where 96
cents is the average price per bushel !
for the hard premium wheat this year.
one of the dealers has a 600-acre tract
for sale. This tract will sell for S2j
nm acre. The tract has been growing
fine crops for years and is for sale at
the low price only because of the death
Of the owner, and is being offered to
close an estate. The property lies
midway between two railroad lines with
stations within a few miles. A six