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• fhe Roundup Record • - - A. W. EHIELEIN. Editor and Publisher - Entered as second class matter June 6. 1908. at the post office at icoundup, Montana. under the Act of March 3. 1879. THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF MUSSELSHELL COUNTY. Published every Friday at Roundup. Montana , SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Per year. $2.00 strictly in advance; WO if not so paid. Friday, April 3, 19 1 4 UNION IN WEST VIRGINIA The presence of Colonel Roosevelt is urgently needed In West Virginia, where his progressive party, disre- garding the injunctions of the colonel and the other party leaders, has en- tered into unholy combination with the unredeemed republicans. A joint committee was appointed by the re- publican and progressive state com- mittees awl this committee has fixed on a plan for working together which has been approved by the leaders of each party in the state and will be followed. Under the West Virginia plan, each party retains its district organization and neither loses its identity. But the primaries will be held in common, each party having its own candidates for all the offices in tle, primaries. But the republican and progiessive candidates will be on the same ticket, slid the man receiving the highest .ote fw, each office wI be the joint candidate for that office of both par- ties. If the progressives, therefore, have the largest number of voters, they can nominate then men as the candidates for all the offices, and the republicans will be bound to vote for them. If the republicans are in the majority they can nominate all the candidates and the progressives must support them. This seems to be a practical way of getting the two parties united. It is a lung step toward complete union and the complete union will doubtless follow at tile next election. But this method of fusion is sure to meet the disapproval of Colonel Roosevelt, who has declared against all fusion or tip- pearance of fusion with republicans or any other party.—Anaconda Stand- ard. IT'S THE FARMER'S LOSS .meet his campaign expenses; his only A few days ago a shipin , nt cf twen- cause for worry now will be if he has ty carloads of potatoes was sent out bought a nickel cigar if he has Man - of Billings for St. Louis, says the aged to do so in a way that has nut , Butte Daily Post. The fact is note- I laid him liable to arrest. Spending is I worthy only because it reminds us 'eschewed In every way, and the hal. that shipments of that kind from this icyou days of the moocher on the po- entire state are not frequent. Deal' I 'kcal candidates is a period relegated em s are authority fur the statement to the hoary past. There will be that more potatoes have been shipped; those, however, who will not be able into Montana than have been export -Ito understand why their favorite can- ed from It. Here in Butte not less didate does not spend a little and it than 25 per cent of the potatoes Con- sumed locally are grown in Idaho. That isn't as it should be. It is a ccndition that, doubtless, time will remedy. The farmer is not to blame. There were sections of the state where only last year growers did not find It worth while to dig their pota- toes. They let them rot In the ground because they couldn't get them to a market. The farmer who did harvest his crop, but who failed to dispose of it last fall, has not made anything by holding his output. He is receiving very little for his potatoes, and that may explain why it is possible now to ship Montana -grown tubers to St. Louis. It amounts to this, that if there is any loss in connection with the long haul to Missouri the farmer is sure to bear a very large proportion of it. What the farmer needs is u home market and he cannot have that un- less transportation facilities are ex- ceptional. If the Montana farmer is permitted to supply all the produce re- quired by his own state he will get along pretty well. for the benefit of those and their favorite candidates that these solemn words are penned. They can't blow themselves, friends. Its against the law, and this is one little old law that is water tight and fool proof. Read R. It will let In the light. There are certain things that crop up now and then along this thorny old trail of life, that help us all to bear our burdens a little more cheer- fully, lift our eyes more hopefully and reinstate in our more or less harden- ed hearts a belief that the world is growing better and that we are not fighting along alone and without any friends to take notice with gladness of our succecses or to grieve over our falicres and losses. Tucked away in this issue of The Record you will find cue of these unostentatious signs of the finest thing in life, helpfulness and real neighborliness which. Is merely a less gushy name for brotherly love. We are procd of having this notice of \The Prairie Flowers\ in our paper and we are proud for the sake of the county, that it has within its limits organizations such as this, founded not for gain but for betterment and It may be thought by some that a helpfulnessi, And thle unfortunate continual harping on the provisions person to whom attention is called in and prohibitions of the corrupt prac- this notice is to be envied rather than tices act is bad form, but a reading condoled with. A man who has of the act will convince anyone that neighbors such as this, has a fortune the newspaper which does the harp- to start with. And this is not the log is performing a real service in only organization of the kind that dining into the ears of the unwary is doing things quietly but effectively the warning to be careful during the in Musselshell county. Practically coming campaign. It is said that every community has them. And someone has remarked that the fortu- here we wish , them the best of for- nate candidate, considering the cor- tune in all their undertakings. We rupt practices act is the defeated can- didate as he stands less chance of going to jail may not be altogether a joke. To the are proud to live in a county that has \Prairie Flowers\ and kindred organi- zations. More than that, they them- selves, we are sure, do not realize old campaigner and the liberal -hearted just how much they are doing and man the act is a downright hardship how perfectly they are exemplifying tho they are all willing to admit that the spirit and teaching of the Man from a pecuniary standpoint it is an who first taught the beautiful doctrine unqualified blessing. The candidate of brotherly love. We take off our need not lie awake at night wondering ,hats to you, fair Prairie Flowers. MILLINERY OPENING Saturday, April 4th, 1914 at THE BOSTON / WOULD like every lady in Roundup and vicinity to visit my milli- ' nery Parlors on this day. It goes without saying your Easter at- tire is not complete without a Hat, and you will find just what you are looking for in this department as same is very complete and the Hats are beautiful. EASTER is always the \big event\ of the Spring trade especially in Hats. Practically all the ladies of our city buy their hats here— Why? Because they can see what they are buying and my Hats are of the very latest shapes and styles and prices the lowest. Don't wait until Easter Day for your Hat—call now and select same before my stock is broken. Remember the Opening Date Saturday, April 4th er0I - NIE! 'MISS OLGA SOLSRUD at THE BOSTON 'Ie.' he i, I • ' ig t 0 raise funds to ‘...\\•'••••••••••••••••• • •• •• • •• 0 .........M.••••••••••••• .1.•••••••••••••••••••••.... \..\. ..... ' MUSSELSHELL COUNTY te HAS GREAT FUTURE *P IS NOW UNDERGOING RAPID AND SUBSTANTIAL AGRICULTURE DEYELOPMENT—INFLUXof NEW SETTLERS CONTINUES UNABATED HE DEVELOPMENT of any new country is not the process of a day. The spectacular influx of transients in- to some widely and efficiently advertised community seeking the speculative advan- tages which are constantly harped upon, the alluring \get -rich -quick\ propoganada, is not what really develops a country. Nor is the speculative class the people who lend stability to a country. They are migratory birds, who cannot endure the rigors of the winter of wait- ing which must of necessity be the lot of every hopeful man who locates in a new country and whose sole and only purpose is to wrest a livng from the soil of the country for his family and to build for them, not necessarily a sudden fortune, but a home. The section of country comprising Mus- selshell county may be counted singularily fortunate in not having to depend entirely upon the development of one industry for the development of the county as a whole. The mining industry must be given credit to a large extent for the present fligh stage—con- sidering the time when the country was first opened up by the advent of the railroad—of development. Conditons here have been uniquely advantageous for the new settler or agriculturist of limited means. Opportuni- ties for making a living while gradually im- proving the homestead and laying a sound foundation for future prosperity have been offered by the varied activities incidental to the development of the mines. In that re- spect, this country has been a boon to the man who wished to establish a home for him- self and his children and who lacked the capi- tal necessary to effect the initial effort. It has been a matter of the commonest occur- rence for a man to hold his homestead by having his family reside upon it while he was at work in the mines or at some other occu- pation made possible by the presence of the mines here. That the raising of the various farm pro- ducts may be pursued with success- in Mus- selshell county is a fact as well established as any other fact. Not only can the products that are raised in other sections of Montana be produced here, but melon and tomato growing and corn raising are possible here due to the longer warm season we enjoy. The annual rainfall is increasing year by year as the cultivated areas of the country is in- creased, and the time is here when \dry land farming\ in the strictest meaning of the phrase is a thing unnecessary to contemplate. The recent ruling of the secretary of the interior which makes possible the taking of an additional i6o acres by the homesteader who is fortunate to have another quarter sec- tion adjoining which is vacant means a great deal to Musselshell county. The list pub- lished elsewhere in this issue of The Record shows that a large acreage has been placed at the command of the homesteaders now here as well as new ones coming in. This will mean, beside the increase in tilled acreage, an increase in the stock raising industry. Here- tofore the homesteader has not had sufficient land to go into the raising of cattle and stock in general to any great extent. But now it will be possible for them to extend their oper- ations along this line thereby bringing the record back to its former status from which it had fallen due to the limting of the range of the old cattle barons by the encroachment of the settlers. What has been lost to them by the taking up of the free range will now be gained by the homesteaders. The building of new, proposed railroads, intersecting thase portions of the county at present out of easy reach of the markets will increase the acreage, of grain prouction hun- dredfold. As it is at present a large number of settlers in outlying districts realize that the haulage cost of getting their grains to market prohibits them from raising grain to the capacity of their farms. The disadvan- tage of distance from market has to some ex- tent been offset by the energetic manner in which the building of the graded county roads has been pushed within the last year, but the full extent of the possibilities of grain raising here will never be realized by any one until the transportation facilities are improved. Aa it is a practically assured fact that the North- ern Pacific will begin construction on its branch line north of here thru the Flatwillow country, the elimination of this drawback will be an assured fact before another year. The character of the settlers in any new country is never much of a hazard. The mere fact that they are people who have the moral stamina and courage to face the hard- ships of pioneering is itself a guarantee that they are of the right sort. And in this con- nection it is pertinent to remark, that the homesteaders of Musselshell county have shown themselves to be and are continuing to be progressive in the best sense of the word. They are rendering a real service not only to fris immediate section but to the state, anti even in the broadest sense, to the world. A trip thruout the county showing cultivated fields, and snug, homelike farmhouses dot- ting what was once nothing but a succession of dreary wastes of sagebrush is the only ar- gument necessary to prove this contention. And while they are building up their individ- ual interests. The school houses that are placed at close intervals is proof that they are working together for the common good. A perusal of the items of local news from the different sections of the country will prove that they have their societies organized for social pleasure and civic betterment. The fact that they hold their regular meetings and have their programs which are both enjoy- able and instructive argues that they are of an order of progressiveness and intelligence that augurs leadership. The coming year is destined to be the ban- ner year for Musselshell county from the standpoint of influx of new settlers. They have been coming in for the last month. And they are not coming barehanded. Carload after carload of household effects, farming implements and stock of all kinds have been unloaded here by the new settlers coming in. Some of them have not had land procured here before coming. They have accepted the enthusiastic endorsement of their friends and have come here to make their home and in all cases such as these, they have expressed them- selves as pleased because they have relied on the reports that have been given to them. Immense tracts of land that have hitherto been owned by the railroad within the county, have been sold to individuals and a vast acre- age of land will be turned by the plow this year. What this means to the people already here in increased value of their own lands by the improvement of contiguous lands is self evident. And further what it means to the county as a whole can hardly be estimated. It will always be a matter of self-congratu- lation to those who have been interested in seeing this section of the country develop from the initial state of crudeness. It will always be something to look back upon as an accom- plishment. And the fact that we are living in Musselshell county today on the eve of its greatest development era, is a privilege which few of us appreciate at its full value. We should be proud to be here. We should let our enthusiasm for the bountiful resources and possibilities sway us until we bubble over and spill it over the doubting Thomases in the country at large. Individual boosting by the people of this community has aided material- ly in the rapid development here, but if a con- certed movement could be established, which would bring about the possibility of making known the resources of this county to the world at large, the period of development would be materially shortened and the fruits of victory brought nearer to hand. It is up to each individual citizen of Roundup and Musselshell county to remem- ber that strangers seeking homes are coming in here every day and the \glad hand\ should be worked, not only toward the contents of their pocketbooks, but in a way that would make plain to them the meaning of the phrase \western hospitality.\ They should be made to feel that they are welcomed, that we are in reality no different from the \home folks\ they have left behind to come into this land of promise.
