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The Ismay (Ismay, Mont.), 20 May 1908, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn85053189/1908-05-20/ed-1/seq-16/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
w f t f t rttrs. 4 «t*V< ^ j •'S.if.j;'?. 7’ i* W-?- ^ M ‘V 1 <4 . i s i v m Y . f c ^ f l M ^ ^ E?,N‘ESDAY S m ^ Q J ^ S T M V q D ^ 'M O N T A N A - -• . ____________ ! * ( L E y i - ' E d itor and Publisher nscr^rJcT, ' .. _ Local Editor ijSKb.Tsrnai’ will mako application for entry ti)‘l tip malls nh- second-class matter as soon as the jtxistQffiee at Ismay Is open for business, '' ■ ■ _______________ Z ________ ; ___ of $500,000.00, has already sold consid erable tracts of land near here. Their local agents are Prindle & McVey. They recently sold to Dr. Geo. A . Lewis of Tunnel City, Wis., a tract of land and also to a Mr. Stickney, who is a practical creamery manager. These gentlemen will put in a creamery the coming summer and bring with them a dairy nerd of fine Holsteins. They expect to begin operations about June 1. Fall® llifl^uHWnMng ,V;V Vr^;-r- I N the lafet issueVqt'^l^^ ^awson ^^^ ■- County' R e v iew i B ^ ^ ^ e tcalf|H p 1 - - prints the 'following good)trticlt 1 l ^ , on this subject:' * ‘ W ith 4 200)000 acres o f Dawson c' 6 uht/,.|Bl lands thrown 'on :the market in the X i ; vicinity of Glendive. there Las arisen S c R. R. Ay re, a capitalist of Sparta, with persistency th e , .pessimistic \pre- Wis., has recently bought of the same diction that dry farm inginthijvicinity W company section 2.1 and will build a w5n v . „ ' |K home here, making this his permanent i( .J*® a PPrD“abeotl,'^pceesls. fO residence. The sale was made through , -Jbst. tyait “until a . hot, dry .season W§ Mr. Broadwell, Messrs Prindle & Me- comes, etc, etc., .etc.,,” is‘the beginning JR| Vey and Second Vice-President P. B. and foundation of a hopelhss' prophecy Brown of the company. often repeated. T h is^em s .to be the 3 4* 4* 4* “ dope” handed out mostly by.Jhe old ^ L. J. Sieverding, whose work as a timers, who argue that conditions must JSw painter is in evidence on several good remain the-same in this section, rwith- f R and buildings in the burg, has also decided out taking into consideration the fact dU that new methods may bring new re- jgE * pears in this issue of The Ismay, which is necessarily incomplete and unsatisfactory, presents the strongest possible reason for the publication of this paper. If further argument weie needed the advertising columns furnish it amply. The Ismav will be an independent pa per politically. It believes such a coutse will best forward the best interests of the town, county and state in which it is published. This does not mean that it will not touch political matters of a local character, but that purely political questions can wait until our new community gets settled down. It will advocate such men and measures as in its judgment will advance the development of the town and county, no matter which party may claim them. As a business proposition it will expect and strive to deserve hearty support. It will endeavor to print the news in a clean and attractive form, pgasflafflsg a ** ' * ■'.V.cAt.kdr'v ' * .<^1 r - ’cf-’ t A ,1 T HE story of the rapid growth development of Ismay which ap- to locate permanently in Ismay and itly / and carry on his trade here. Mr. 'Sieverd . . , ing has every qualification for success even with unchanged natural en- in his line of business and is dhing vironment. ' We^- In eloquent rebuttal of .the pessi- l®’ * mist’s side of the case, the optimist A telephone line is practically com- points out the success 'achieved with he McLean ranch dry farming in this locality las't seas- plete from Ismay to t 12 miles out, where it connects with the Miles City and Ekalaka line and at Ekalaka with the line to Wibaux where there, is connection with the long distance wires. The local lines cover about 160 miles of service. on, but the reply comes back, “ Oh, that was a w e t season.” And probably that’s the idea generally entertained by those who do not realize actual con ditions. ❖ 4* * ' As a matter of fact the, rainfall at W ith the other influences actively at Glendive last year was 4.96 inches, or work mention should be made of Field something more than 32 percent, less Agent _F. A. Little, the representative than the average rainfall for the past seventeen years. Unless one disputes the accuracy of the records, there is no getting around the plain showing made by these figures. They mean that with odds of u, . , , __ ,, ___ , ___ . __ . „ . .. 32 percent against them from a weath- Stul another factor, and one of the . . , ... most important of all, is the Chicago, er standpoint, those who farmed with- Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. They out irrigation in this locality last year have put up here a handsome depot achieved a decided success, structure, 24x80 feet, with fine waiting From fcbe reCords in the office of T. B. W alker, of the big Felthaus Land & Investment Co. of St. Paul. Mr. Little is an in defatigable worker for the interests of this section, where his company have large holdings. • 4* 4* 4* and to advocate every movement that room, offices, living rooms and freight W o a . Vlo„ will iniilrl nn imd riovuinr. To™,.,- nr,ri warehouse. The road is already doing W eather Observer ^ P a* a ^ a heavy freight and passenger business T h e Review finds that the following its growth and progress. The editor here, employing three men to take are the averages of .precipitation* for is an optimist and believes in the bright care of the station business. These £ “All Aboard for IsmayP’ Watch this space next week for Special Bar gains in Real Estate and Live-Stock Prindle & McVey The Pioneer Rear Estate and Liv.e Stock Brokers ot Ismay, Mont. “All Aboard for Ismay!*’ side of things. The future of Ismay seems to us to be a very bright one in every respect. The Ismay will try to do its full share to realize it. SOME THINGS ABOUT ISMAY be a (From Page One) along and that Ismay will soon voting precinct. ❖ ❖ 4* Among other influences that will help build up this section is the active co-oporation. and efforts of several are Agent G. A. Frear and J. S. Douglas and F. L. Carl! 4* <t» 4» W ith telephone and telegraph ser vice, good shipping and passenger traffic facilities, express and mail, with the country rapidly filling up with good settlers, with a fine line o f business houses, and better than all a wide awake and progressive lot of business men, it hardly seems neces sary to go much further in the enum eration of the influences that are the various months, computed for seventeen years: January, .81; Feb-, ruary, .65; March, 1.24; A p r ilA l.il; May, 2.32; June 3.44; July, 1.66? Ah -4 ^ gust, .91; September, 1.10; October, 1M» .11; November, .65; December^,<•10. ,.»^S This makes a total average ap^ual rainfall for Glendive for seventeen years of 15.42 inches, whereas 'many vra agricultural districts of the W e s t are X ? witnessing continued dry farming .sue- cess, season after season, with only an- sure to make Ismay a progressive and pros- annual precipitation of 11 /inches, perous place. It seems a sure thing. This is notably true o{ the region 4* 4* 4* round Pendleton, Ore., as well as in Perhaps a further answer to various points in Utah and Colorado., large concerns interested in the farm- the question of what there is to build Analysis o f the foregoing figures ing and grazing Jands near the vilJage. up a town here will be found in this, yields other interesting results. >The J. B. Broadwell, first vice-president of the first issue of The Ismay. Our ad- J e first vice-president of Blue Grass Li a St. Paul corporation with a capital settle the Northern Blue Grass Land Co., vertising columns are sufficient to pessimist says “ the reason dry ferifeiing doubts. was so successful last yearvrasBecause 8 ‘ Vw. ]]$ £ ’ I # . \ sr J, ,-JW . m ■ ' t z f c ; Vi a j i > The Gray-Gables Hotel F. Z. GRAY, Proprietor Ismay Montana New and Newly Furnished Throughout Good Accommodations for 100 Guests Can Furnish Meals for 200 People Our Aim is to Run a First-Class Hotel ( . * ^ * Ini Every Respect . 4 b:} m the rainfall came during the growing season, which is not usually the case.” But the figures tell an e n tirely different story. A g a in referring to the seventeen year averages, you w ill find that the ^precipitation during the fhonths of •^April, May, June and July was 8.53 inches, or quite a little more than half the average rainfall for the entire year: also that the months of May and June— all important for crop\ produc WHY FARM VALUES HAVE INCREASED [From the Helena Record] % i HE increase in western farm values of from tweqty-fiyb to fifty per cent in the past ten years has not been due solely' to the' increase of population and the efforts of the city dwellers to get into f.b^ouijitry, but to a large extent to the better opportunities to l i v e n 'd /keep in communication with the outside world that have been prqvidedjrhe telephone has been a great factor, so has the rural mail delivery and &he iriterurban , tion—show a total o f A 16 inches, or trolley lines. By these means the farmer has heen enabled to^keep in touch more than one-third of the total aver- with th * market, take advantage of its turns, and reap the profit which in the annual rainfall for the period old days went to a greater extent to the middleman. • It is^^the increase of these same facilities that will cause land values to advance in Montana and the increase in this state will be more rapid than it has been in the middle west. Every telephone line built in the farming sec tion of this state, every rural mail route established, adds to the value of the farm brought into closer and quicker communication with the town. Like the improvements which are made in a' city, every enterprise that makes living easier in the country, addg value to the property affected. age .named. f. One is forced to the conclusion that, ; during the pjist twenty years (until ■ within two or three years last past) there was no real, scientific farming in Dawson county, or at least so litfle of i t that results therefrom form no adequate basis of comparison or judg- , ment, nor do they warrant one in pre- .diotlng the future frona that standpoint. The dry farming experts are pound ing it into the heads of the practical exploiters of the science that, with conservation of moisture by the means .of alternate croppings, mulching, : inter-tilling and, i f desired, subsurface Goal Briquettes A briquette plant with a capacity of 250 tons of coal briquettes daily and which, it is'estimated, will employ 400 men, is about to begin operations at Sully Springs, N. D:, near Medora. The concern is backed by Philadel- SIR' ED W IN IB EDWyYN * n t squire of dines; i lidye fair loved he. One dsy hc heard her eotertaia mother maid at tea. > She did declare: \I always ware a twenty- dollar glove;’* packing, there is every reasonable phia*capital and is to use coal ■ bf the Whetcat Sir Edwya wcut %way, Mad never prospect of continued success. same class as is found in such'.abun- . is ove. dance in this immediate. Vicinity. SirEdwyngotte another girl, a damsel plnmp and .sweet. ' These declarations come from men . , v-. . ' .. , The federal government has been ex- ;,of scientific habits, who are studying per^en tin g with briquetted coal for One day he asked ye maiden- but lto have a adaot only conditions in one locality, but naval purposes and finds it will pro- little treat, are conducting their investigations duce mpre power and heat than pure Tenife’ plunks per pfate—thnt’vV « s ‘yc freight. o'ver wide areas and under widely dif- coa^ and naore economical in every hnngry dove/; . . .... J wav. Southern railways who have*. ‘ ... ferent conditions. tested its use, report a saving of 20 per And soc Sir Edwyn went away and never told ' T h e ‘Review is inclined to take the besides the following points: his love. assurance bf these men, coupled with “ This coal burns up entirely, leaving sir Edwyn gotte another girl, < This maid her such results as have been attained no dlrtv fire at the end of “ J* - heid.wonld toss. . 7 . - “ Within the memory of m a n ,^ rather ^ cowed than to be frightened into * wan au macs smyso wuuo uamg c:, i, r r.iii* ; and ultra-conservatism by • the honest affd there-is but little smoke when tho , iJd i ’w , v V v but possibly mistaken convictions of steam is turned ofL TMs fuel does - , . S i f ’ fedwvi’ went iw^v%&!*ievct ... r , . 1 , . a Way with, the stopping up of the flues, And then t>u< Ldwyu.went. away ^tnn.never those who are reasoning simply from ah i broduces' a,uniform steam.” - 'koldJun-ioige.v, past conditions. * *■ -• ‘ Cbe Dry Land Homesteader. , > - j ■■ • \ * • •* *AV’ • • ■_ ■- ■ ^ m I’ve started to'dVy farm A piece of bench land sod, . And if I meet no harm I’ll win or bust-^-by jinks. **t ' I t , Plow and harrqw and; disc-- Di8c ahd harrow andplow: Of .ppu'rse.therivis. some.^lsk- Until a' chap knows how. ' > ’ v.*/ V y i ■< ^Campbell says .they’wilTgrow 1 ;. If seeds are put in right— , ifa'p^dsfjohhqw ypiisow' ; . Witii^ground-in ^proper- plight k V.C- / 'K L ' ' V ■ ^ A X ^ ^ S'4' v^ s v A a d so;l\wor|c;)B:ll>aay: ‘ ‘ - ~ J :1 v • * ~ • ,'‘x, *' » C o n f ^ t i o r i e r ^ , | ^ | V i t S r r. - V. ' V.-. T o b a c c o if Ar. I Ol /v < ■>''1^* I at
