The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-04-25

ter ana line grass. Inc Farmers are
always buying more Holstein cattle.
We have creamery in Red Lodge that
buys all the cream that can be pro-
duced in the county. The government
declares this county to be one of the
most natural dairy places there is in
the United States. There are four dai
rvs in this town and still they are
short of milk.
The climate is fine and our water
is 1915 pure by government analysis.
We irrigate with this water. In fact,
it is the only kind of water we got
here. We do not feel the cold here at
30 below as much as we do the cold
in Missouri at freezing. Hogs do not
have cholera and have never heard
of tuberculosis anon gthe cattle. Due
to the pure water and the climate.
1t is an ideal place for anyone to
make money and enjoy good health,
among good class of people.
Our markets are good and we have
markets for everything that we pro-
duce. Hay makes an average Of about
$18 per ton from year to year, that
is timothy and alfalfa. Markets are
good for both hay and oats and all
other produce.
Improved irrigated land will aver
age from 80 to $500 per acre and in
some parts of the county as high SIS
$203 per acre. | believe that we have
one of the best places in the county
and could not afford to take 5000 per
acre for it for the reason that peas do
so well in yielding and in price and
they will make rs per cent on the
money invested.
We usually have good sleighing in
the winter which makes it easier to
take crops to market than having to
haul heavy loads through mud in the
wagons.
There are hundreds of wild flow
ers of every variety.
Although we do not rails any fruit
on our palce there is lots of it raised
bon County are q great deal better
in the county. Apples raised in Car
than those raised in Missouri.
We also have all kinds of berries
strawberries, huckleberries, wild cher
ries, thimbleberries, gooseberries, and
currants and most of these grow
wild and many of them between my
place and the mountains, my house
being about six miles from the mon-
ntains.
We are located in wonderfully
scenic country and are only forty
five miles from Yellowstone Park. We
have some very fine summer resorts
shat are located up in the mountains
and accessible by good automobile
roads. We have fine trout streams and
hunting Is good for both big and
small game. A person can go out in
the morning and come back with q
deer or elk before evening. Our noun
tain streams are well stocked with
trout. The highest mountains in the
state of Montana are close to Red
Lodge which are $4,000 feet high
ome people claim that the things
we raise out here cannot be raised
in this altitude, but while | am in
the highest altitude of any farm land
in this county, there is no reason for
such talk as everybody raises the same
crops as l do every year. The altitude
at my ranch is $500 feet and | raise
every kind Of crop grown in a mod
crate climate. The altitude varies ir
this county from 300 to $500 feet
in the farming districts and as high
as $4,000 feet in the mountains. We
never have any sickness as the air is
pure and dry.
Red Lodge has free county high
school besides seven grade school:
and are still short of school houses
Our schools are good all over tbs
county and have the nine months
term. We have good churches of al.
most every denomination. We have
better roads than they have in Mis-.
souri, and Kansas as we have natural
road beds.
As ! said before, | came here il
1919 mad paid $4,000 for my place
paid $4,000 down and mortgaged ths
balance and from last years crop
paid the balance of my indebtness il
full. My home 81 now clear and also
my stock and machinery. I neither
fear God, Man nor the Devil now ane