White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-08-21

in $325,000 with the Great Northern
Railway, to build SO miles of railway
extension and new empire about
twice the size of the state of Rhode
Island is being opened in Montana.
This line which will be extended west
from Scobey, Mont, paralleling the
Canadian boundary, is to cost about
S1,250,000. The farmers and few
business men purchased $325,O00 Of
Great Northern treasury stock at par
and the Hill line will furnish the bal
ance of the money needed to build
the line
This is believed to be the first time
in the history of the Northwest that
farmers have assisted in financing an
extension line. These farmers have
been hauling their grain to market in
wagons and motor trucks, some of
them being obliged to travel IS miles
to sell their products. Five new
towns will be established in this new
domain and each of these towns will
draw grain, livestock and other farm
products from about Is townships,
representing areas that equal the size
of the average Minnesota or Iowa
counties. Twenty miles of this new
railway will be completed this fall
and the rest will be built next year.
| Considerable area in Canada also will
be served by this railway extension.
BY next year when the road is COM
million and half bushels of wheat
will be marketed from this section.
Most of the wheat raised in this upper
region of Montana is eagerly sought
| by Eastern millers because of it's I'M
usually high protein content, and it
is sold on the market at a premium of
15c or more per bushel above ordinary
wheat.
| The new empire which the extern
sion Of this line will open is one of
the most dependable wheat regions
on the North American continent I'M
der the summer fallow system of
agriculture. There are about 1,500,-
900 virgin acres that will be cult
waited to support this new railway ex-
! tension. The townsites are to be put
on sale in September and plans are
under way to build the most modern
| towns architects can design. The new
| stockholders consist of about 95 per
cent farmers and per cent small
town business men.
For years the farmers of Daniels
and Valley counties lying next to the
Canadian boundary have sought a
branch line of the Great Northern
Railway, but the war came on and
the building of extensions was of
course out of the question. Then,
when the railways finally were turned
back to private control, the Great
Northern Railway found itself with
the rest of the lines Of the United
States, occupied entirely with re-
facilitating it's main line system. So
these Montana farmers had to go on
hauling their products to market by
wagon and motor trucks. But these
tillers of the soil kept persistently at
it, maintaining a regular railway COM
mittee and importuning the Great
Northern officials to build them a
line. Finally the Great Northern an
nounced that il the farmers of the
two commodious Montana counties
would absorb $250,O00 worth of stock
the line would be built. The farm
quickly that they Immediately over.
subscribed this sum by $4,000 and
they are jubilant because the line is
going through what they regard as
the best winter wheat belt in
America.
BY October it will be built to the
coming town of Peerless, which by
that time will be partly erected and
vestigation of the railway conditions
there on the frontier waiting for the
railway to come up to it. Next year
the remaining so miles Of rail will be
laid to the terminal town of Opheim.
which also will become reality be-
fore the new railway catches up
with it..
j. V. Bennett, of Scobey, diligent d.
rector of the frontier farmers per-