Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1926-04-08

! dAvembsr SS, lsTs. Montana was
/ Aen bora as territory, there wa
! Asw farmers, and mining held Ia.
boards, With stoekralaing Just coming
! into les glory. Diamond City was =
) SHining camp. one Of the richest In pls
la@r gold In the entire west, with .
fleating exiatanca- now one Of
Ae ghost cities Of ths days that wsrs
Il ~Bobn had no newspaper expert
) @nes knsw nothing Of either writing
glm BUSINESS. From . practical news.
Nmpax standpoint; there was no ed.
sEtising; there was no farming, cit
sns we're few and far between. and
4 a1ns Of them could have been fewer
mnd the country would have bean het-
i ter, but he believed that Montana
was destined 70 become . great ag-
riculturaI state, and be started the
First agricultural paper in the state,
started it on shoestring, and ran
Il at his own expense.
Then he went all over Montana,
and in two years the Rocky Mountain,
Husbandman at 81 per year had 81
600 paid subscribers. It became the
leading paper in the state in eircula-
tion, bat only agriculture, chickens,
and livestock formed the staple out
put. The realm Of politics was never
entered, and never 3 unkind word was
allowed as to anyone personally.
Diamond City faded, and a few
years later the Husbandman was NOV
ed to White Sulphur Springs, the
coming health resort, with the best
medical springs in the world.
nBob was "rarins to make White
sulphur Springs go, the paper was
making money fast, he married and
made home, and all looked we'll But
his enthusiasm for his home was such
hat he invested hts money IN . nnw-
Der Of public buildings, and when 1T
igation stopped the progress Of the
springs, Bob" was the loser Of for.
tune He came to Great Falls 22
years ago and published the paper
here since that time. He was the
most earnest and persistent advocate
Of irrigation In all Montana, and was
SO for the 50 years that he lived with
in her borders.
Old Friend stand BY
For the past q months, during
which time the editor was too III to
publish, Allen Pierse, himself a pio
neer Of the same cd days, and
friend Of Bob for 90 years has kept
the old paper moving for the benefit |
Of his friend and faEnily--and done Il |
all without one cent Of compensation /
or expectation Of any. 1t was all in the
days, work, and only an incident IN
the ways Of men IN the old west; his
friend needed help and he was there
to give It, without thanks and without
cost The world did not know It, for
man Of the old days did not advertise
such things; they saw their duty
md went ahead, playing a lone hand
Z necessary, bat going through just
he same. Mr.. Pierce does not look
lpon his work for his friend as any
hing but in the plain line Of duty,
or Bob" would have done the same
hing for MIN II the cases had been
'everged
In the Fiftjest Anniversary edit
4 the Husbandman, Z. H. Cooney,
vho learned TO set type on the Hus- !
'andnan at White Sulphur Springs
rhiIe a boy going to school there ,
VrOte an article which pleased Bob !
'reatly and closed with the following 4
ribute:
"some day white Sulphur Springs +
yill be the great health resort Of the T
alton, just now it is the weeds, and
hen that time comes a monument h
} Bob Sutherlin and the Rocky
fountain Husbandman should be
rected on the town square, to the
ne man who spent his fortune in B
posting the town for the common s.
God, and to the other for the record
made along the path for a half j.
injury in building up the state. o.
~Of Bob" sutheriin, the real ed
orial life Of the Husbandman for so "
sars, 1t might be said Of him as
~ said Of the late Abou Ben Ad- fl
nm, that in the giving Of his all to CO
V general good. his name leads tn
st. Coming on the stage at the "
me when all was crude and in the or
alring, and force rather than right, hs
as apt to rule, @Bobe sutherlin =
ns mighty power for good citizen az
ip and law which those who follow pr
the trails he and his kind madc
fe for traffic Of today have never