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• t:!•..- . 1„. 2 • V k THE JUDITH BASIN STAR VOL.! HOBSON STATION, PHILBROOK, P. O., FERGUS COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1909. NO. 21 Safety , Liberality This Bank is ever ready to accept any new desirable busi • ness, and offers its services to those who desire their busi- ness handled in a prompt and conservative manner. Refusing all hazardous or speculative ventures, we con- fine our business to legitimate and conservative banking. STATE BANK OF MOORE Courtesy Conservatism 444.4.1H.<4.4444.44.i4.: 4.144 1 / 11 :44.44.4444444+44+ Basin Lumber CO. LUMBER? That's our business and we carry at all times a complete stock of it and all kinds of building material.. Our prices are right too. Let us figure on your bills large or small. We know We can please you. Basin Lumber Co. +++++H++ 14 4.-144.144.1.i.+4.14+44.1.44.144.4.14444.14.144.1. THE JUDITH LIVERY and FEED STABLE J. S. Mateer, Prop. Carrier of the Utica Mail --Leaves Utica Tor Philbrook at 10 A.M. Connects with Great Northern Trains TIIE , NATIONAL BANK OF LEWISTOWN, MONTANA 4./ •••-• . .. • With deposits of one million - and resources of one . 'Million six hundred . thousand • dollars, *il1 . welCome.most c eOrdiallY uovi business from the Philbrookterritory. I ' , . • • v . • e.,i.;1017,MAKER .Vi de President E. 0. BUSENRURO See. 84 Treas. Hi Loan and ;Realty Co. .,• - CornmisSionAlents, Land Attorneys, Land Scr,1P.Ukans, cgkivreyan,cind and Insurance tl , Rist\National Dank, bewistown E\R4N00 3:, & Trust Co., Helena . . LewlstoWn . , . • • Montana 1 I •• , COMpliments of Moore - MercantileCompa fly . „ A Truthful Boost For Montana. Today it would be a pleasant thing to take that oft quoted man who once said that the whole country west of the Mississippi could never ratio so much as a peck of onions, and show him what has been done. I would show him onions all along that northern tier of states clear to Puget Sound, I would give him acient history in onions, \one hundred and thirty thousand bushels iii'Montana ten years ago,\ in that state known only for copper mines and cattle. Nor onions alone. I would show Iiiin South Dakota barley that nets nearly forty dollars per acre, over thirty million dollars in wheat, and plum orchards netting from one thou - solid to three thousand dollars clear In Montana, wheat, oats, barley, sugar beets and alfalfa, the latter running live tons to the acre, with many farina—not ranches—producing fifty-six bush- els of oats, forty three of barley and two hundred and twenty-five of potatoes per acre; prunes and apple and , plum orchards in Idaho and Washington with its over twenty million bushels of wheat, besides much oats, barley and other crops from its thirty- three thousand farms. And, last, I would leave- him with a box of thom Washington strawberries in his hands and their taste in his mouth, and see what he would say about onions then. It is a wonderful change that has come about within these past few years, more significant than the discovery of a new world, for this is our own land, it lies at our doors, it waits for us to enter in. No man can accurately compute the increment it has already meant in wool, horses cattle, wheat, fruits, vegetables, not to mention the millions in gold and other metals still being produced, nor the perhaps equally significant physical development and physical enlarging of those who have opened up this new world. OPPORTUNITY IN PLENTY Does some man say: \This is all very well, but the opportunities are now all gone; there are no new lands to be had.\ The man who talks in that way ought to be taught that opportunity is always past for the one who waits for somebody to come and kick him out of sleep into success. Yet, that kind of man needs this new world, and he will become an opportunity creator when he gets into its environment. So we must point out the fallacy of the altogether too common statement that this is' no longer the land of opportunity. There are literally millions of acres of good farming land open for homestead entry in the northwestern states. 'or good oia Uncle Sam is waiting for y,ou to go and pick out a one - hundred and -sixty -acre farm for yourself. Do not think, either, that you must pass. through the nerve-racking experience of draw- ing for lots of a mild' free-for-all rush for desirable sites. Any citizen of the United Statf5s, or even One who has declared his citizenship intention, may select one hundred and sixty acres of un- occupied public lands and make his entry for them at the land office of the district where they are sit- uated. After that, practically all that is required is a bona fide cultivation of that tractas a farm, and it is yours. In the Dakotas the fee runs from fourteen to eighteen dollars, in Montana from sixteen to twenty-two dollars. These are the states where the greatest area of unoccupied home- stead land remains and theme are the states where the largest oppor- tunities for profitable farming are found today. Last summer I saw a number of these homestead tracts, many of them strung along the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway's extension into that country, green patches in what the unobservant would still call a desert but pro- phetic of the very same kind of opulent farms, slightly older, that stood by the tracks of the same road farther east, and suggesting acee88ibl-2. markets and ready coin muuieation with the denser world of the central states. And, mind you, many of these farms were far away from means of irrigation, they were dry farms, for it has now been established beyond per- adventure, that, necessary as irri- gation may be to truck farming and to hortieultuie, these ''deserts'' have sufficient subsoil moisture to produce not merely crops but heavy eritps that fill up bank books quickly. FIBROUS COUNTY Take another specimen: Fergus county, in the center of Montana, onedialf of its lour million, three hundred thousand acres of high grade agricultural country, a rich, rolling prairie, with the inountaine in the distance. We Montaniatis used to have a deep respect for Lewistown, the county seat, be- cause, until quite recently, it was Ur last of the larger towns to be accessible only by a long stage ride, about one hundred miles of misery, to the nearest railroad. But the Montana railroad being met by the Milwaukee extension, all that is changed. The old jerkies and the stage outfits give place to modern railroad coach, and the inauy may now know one of the most beautifully situated little cities of the state. All about Lewistown is a rich region, cut by water courses till a map thereof looks like a diagram of the human nervous system. Here is the wondrous Judith Basin, where valley and bench land yield their immense crops; one acre gave up nearly one thousand bushels of potatoes; wheat rims fifty per acre; oats Over eighty. And yet farm land can he had in this district for twenty dollars and upward an acre. A man has a good chance to pay for his whole farm with one rich crop. Let no one say, with the random guessing' of the uninformed, that these heavy yields are due to the surface scratching of new land; some of the best are on the older farms, and besides, soil that runs three feet lathe black, as mutt of this does, will not play out in a few seasons. Twenty years ago the phrase, \agricultural Montana\ would have been a joke; today, though the mines are still pouring out their wealth, you can easily see that the hope of the . common wealth is in the farms, the people are just discovering their greater riches. And in the farming region you can talk with . many who will tell you this man and the other who, coming in only a few years ago, started as a hired man and buying his farm on easy terms is now an independent farmer, lord of hands, cattle, horses and a bank account that has apparently passed adolescence. This is possible because men recognize today that the best way to get a good living is not by tak- ing huge tracts a:id conducting bonanza ranches, but by• diversified and intensive farming. Instead of putting all their eggs in one basket u of alfalfa or of oats, they put CONTINUKD ON BACK PAW: Twenty Five Years Experience Has Given Us The \Know Where\ To Buy Land To Satisfy The Homeseeker Our pllSt 5114•ees4t111 record_ in finding homes .. • for over 6,0041 a guarantee that those who come to us . will be shown land that is. absolutely right and will prove the most profitable investun tit that they ever made. We ‘vithout liesifation that the land in, the Judith Basin, h'ergus Count) that we own and lai‘e for sac. i•-: . the best hoill iii the \Vest today, eonsidering•what it ‘vill pro,Iiive and what the land Call he ',might tor Any f a il d t h u t w : II produce 411 Ill :II) 1 , 11SIICISit Vili , 7.) 1,1isl.t.IS fof Oats, b 1011ShidS of rye, and good 4.1.or„ or timotby, alfalfa, elover, vegetali:es and fruits without irrigation is worth *Ion per acre, ym• eau NOW buy some of this land 11.4,111 its for f•Pl 8 to $2.5 an aere. Tell us about what you would like, or (he amount of money you ean ;11%•est. Never mind about the payments, we will protect . ,Ou on that. What we want is the ACTI',11. IfilmESEEK ER and to Nueh we Will sell LAND ON HIS O\VN TElt18. For maps and facts for your Down East friends, see its or write us. II obroon• •Pli /1 Iwo ilk P. k.).• .Monlisms The Center of the Judith Basin itspo' zassomimmeziantriziosimmo BANK DRAFTS „ 314 iNEY OR DER8 Travelers' Checks and Foreign Drafts Oood in the United States and all parts ot the world issused by the Bank of Fergus County • LEWISTOWN, MONTANA. We will also rent you a SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX for the safe keeping of your valuables when absent from home. 4444444444444444.14444+4444.144444.44444+04.44444.44. 4444.114444+4444444444.4 , 444.44 , 444444444444444 , .44444444 4 , HOBSON HOTEL M. J. BIXENMAN. Prop. Philbrook, Montana hoard end Room by the Day. Week or Month 4 4 114+41.441144444+4444+4++++4 , 44.11.1144+44++ EMPIRE BANK AND1RUST COMPANY 1,Ew IsToWN, MONTANA We desire your banking busim•ss, mill the same careful attention will be given it whether it be large or small. Five per rent. interest paid on savings accounts and the savings banks furnished. 4.111414 It. B. Tfirmvs(1, Vrevident BeEite, ( . 8141;er 'J. P. BAFINEs, Vice -President 11,;,zec, Ass't Cashier '
