Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-10-05

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o see here is how 1t happened
Away back from the ninty's and tn
1900 to 1905. why there was an epI
demic of alleged Farmers going GU
to settle the West Well they vent on
Ok and they settled 1t OK. but from
then On the initials turned TO N.G. In,
goodl- There was the land and Their,
was the Wide Open Spaces" and /
sas plenty wide open. Never wa.
there 50 much space. and SO little wa
Ter Never was there as much openes,
ana "a little Vegetation. Now to sit bacl
East and hear about our Government
giFlns you a homestead that is NAB,
ite acres. naby much more, depend
lHg On b state and type OF Country
aeAi TO tell q person you are going tf
give him a whole farm TO. nothing. wins
10 better -BaIlyhoo- was ever built I'M
II sounds like Santa Claus had really
arrived with the old rain deers.
But to make a long story short. fts
the bunk There just Amt any way YOU
can make a living out OF it. If there was
any wafer on the place why somebody
you'd be on there. for they have been
hunting water in the West much longer
than they have gold and DuffaIo's. ii
! wonderful spring came out OF a noun
ain side men left gold, silver and cop
per mines to come and grab that spring.
Water amt gold in the West. water lis
diamonds and platinum So all these
Door folks starved ont Their little
scratched out plots of ground, and
remnants OF log or sod nuts. or old
raimneys. are nothing bur tombstones
OF a lost hope and ambition, all led on
0y government advertising.
The Government has made EN- do
a~ay with all enclosures. and Drift"
fences A Drift fence liz one that goes
across a stretch of country. that Is put
there 10 help hold cattle back ii a GER
tain radius An old government law
said there eouldent be any fences on
government land but the Law was out
Jared IT wa found thai fencing was
an absolute necessity SO the old law In
regard TO fences was oufIa wed by ne
ressffy and popular demand. its still on
Inc books but 50 Is a Law against
xitchcraft in New England. Now mind
you these COW men pay for the use OF
fnfs Government land. either by SO
mach a head or By the amount of land
occupied They don't get IL for nothing
and they do themseivs pay for the fenc-
ing OF IT.
Now every cowman there IL broke.
He hasenf even goE the money to move
his fence OH. II he uas forced too. The
RF-C- has got loans on everything with
horns ON down there and Ill their loan
they sfipulate that the stock
s1ioTfgaged must be kept within an In
Closure and be ready to b showr and
at any time Now part OF this
rOwlland range is ON the Government
preserve What are ron going % In
close EN- withy Give each sow d man
and lei her see for herself how far she
AN Eo7 Some of these cafti- have been
dipped I'm a medical preperati1. for
diseases and some haven't III they are
III ON the range togeather. how you
going To tell which has. and ..hicb
1asent. Have TO ask em. ! guess. How
$ the man who wants to breed M mis-
herd and hare good bulls going 10
lave any protection from the fellow
to him with some old sun, and
> indies. and speckles7 How about
weening of caIves7 Cut EN- OF |
ram their mothers and night herd EN-
reckon There Is a guard | would like |
. stand
! could go or by the hour and emu
aerafe reasons why the old cowman