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.home of big herds of catt € and | Round butte, a near neighbor, 1s , rounded by higher benches, and is! of the famous Judith basin before both starting from Benton. ‘flocks - of sheep where nutritious | .-arcely less prominent, its rugged | several miles in either direction be-|it Was broken up than any other | ‘ grass ‘fed them upon a thousand | outlines showing ‘ yancing strides of civilization. ~ gand sou ‘SHOULD HAVE DISPLAY Bees, GERALDINE, CHOUTEAU COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, AUG. °15, 1908? 3 P of An Empire of Miles Square HAS RIGHT LOCATION TO BECOME PRINCIPAL POINT 3’. ‘s'sce teneisch tna sistance ot iy co tony mice, NQ EXCEPTION THIS YEAR IN RAISING BIG CROP Two Months’ Old Town Rapidly Gathering Business Houses | netted was over $47,000. This sale Representing Different Commercial Lines. Big Interests and a Wideawake People. ® ~the.Town of the Section. = This section of Montana has long | though o miles distant it seems as and platted have been sold. | though the town were almost witb-| been the stockman’s paradise, the |t0 , in its shadow, so hills, but now giving way to the-ed-/tinctness, though In this section the landscape is ade ‘ ession of bench- a made up of a succ leo proclaims its es, interspersed by valleys and! the beauty of the draws, avsich, slightly-rolling Prai- | Litre OF PRODUCTS IN TOWN: GERALDINE Soedil ibt (an be Gere. ia-the Rest Mivay in New Cony ad . | IN IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF TOWN . Heal ive Gestion Herabouts With But People Here CanSee Nothing To Iti Cover Miles ef Territery. The Great Falls-Lewistown tine | Coal Beds of Commercial Value Believed to Exist Underneath A ‘burning question” among | Whatever aims and claims other ! so we can show: of the Milwaukee is destined to be-| 4 itown people and those from the) ‘‘future greats” ou the new Miiwau- the Town and Will be Exploited. | Geraldine Country. Let’s Bo It. | Bring in your samples of grain| and vegetables, the goods. town this fall and we want to and, item. It cuts the can, if we but make the effort, show ‘cultural empire which will bear a) paying quantities does not exist at | of here. all visitors what we can doin the dense population and its conse-!this point. In digging wells and | farming line. The Geraldine coun-;quent industrial try should take a back seat for| Many lines of-business, none, and displays from our fertile} Leaving Great fields and gardens will be an eye-| = “pener to those from the east, many | miles above Ger ot whom look upon Montana as a} desert waste noted ‘principally for} its wild and woolly natives and, Arctic winters. | Montana is really one of the rich- ,and thence south est agricultural states in the Union! and is rapidly forging to the front! rank inthis respect. A few years| will see it first in the production of | wheat and well up toward the head in the other cereals. ‘This is as cer- | trim as it is that time will roll by. | lt is Geraldine. The advantage million bushels. This is a new country and_agri- | culture is inthe experimental stage, | private ownershi it is true, but the past two or three | h 4 years, during which time most of | at suc ie a ae the land in this vicinity has been! ¥© May Oe that ir fertility the soil is richly en- dowed and capable of a nigh state! ol cultivation. - And we have not the Jeast doubt that ifthe proper . ‘ <3 » fill bill effort is made an exhibit of our pro- oe ducts -could be gathered which} | oo gene, Give Us the grasses and vegetables and let the; tributions. And outside world know that we .have a! rich little agricultural empire and‘ faith. want people to know it. | do the rest. a tract ot land the Milwaukee Land | Heavy yields of grain were given company. last fall, through G, W. | !ast year and the mereased acreage Morrow general townsite. agent of | this year has justified the faith and To Supply an Area of 40 most equi-disgant from Great Falls;it as fast as titles are received. |scale,on the horizon. : trim little and appropriately named of the town to any size the condi-, | Haystack butte rises modestly as if tions and circumstagces of the! feet, as compared with 3,313-feet at | progress is being made in farming | field for man to make his home and What are now known as Winch- rie stretching awav for miles, with! ell Springs bave been known to intention of the Winchell Springs! Benton, the county. seat, which is! fyture of the country. the Highwood range to the west | white people for many vears, but! Land company, as soon as the de-!overland 28 miles. th and the Bear Paw and | about 30 years ago William Winch-, mand will warrant, to construct a! fe@ bills climbing the river breaks|kee company have ample confi-| ral wealth, Geraldine will be the Aockit's* to* the Mast’ Ane el loedted beside them “and give’ dai anc ruservoir at the Springs! co:tisfourfronr Dentonytke roads Je&ce in’ she -growth. of this new “mistress ot atrading territory which: north; and here-and ‘there solitary | them a name. Winchell afterwards | and pipe the w-ter to the town. | are excellent and an immense traf- town and in the value of the sur-| bas built lusty young. cities under buttes standing like sentinels over|sold his holdings to. the Homer- | Tentative plans for the -water ‘sys~' fic is done over them by ranchers| rounding ‘country is shown by the/ like conditions at other points and the pastoral scenes, Square butte! Flagler Sheep company, which in| tem have already been formulated and résidents “of the néw towns’ purchase of a half section of state| there is no .reason on earth why is a lawdinark which may. be seen! turn disposed of the land to the|and atthe proper time the--enter | springing up along the Milwaukee jand tributary tothe town by Judge/ history should. not repeat itself for miles trom any direction, and; Brady-Collins Sheep company. mo eso LOOKING UP- COAL PROSPECTS The road will be in to/Come one of the most profitable | ; | parts of the great Milwaukee - sys- course is northeasterly. | the east and passes this point iva! ined this vicinity declare that the! growth are | southeasterly direction past Square probabilities are strongly in favor character that the most confirmed! yember. All of which is very pleaS butte and at Arrow creek drops in! of great coal seams lying under- optimist in -the community can’ ant news and will be agreeably re-! a Southerly course down to Denton /neath this entire section. town. Broadly.speaking it skirts' good grade of bituminous coal, is} the Highwood range in.the form of, but 4o miles south of here and-a: |aloup and at the central point of commercial mine ‘of high-grade; his loup is situated the tov ignite i org iles ih: ; ‘car. this Pp ituated the town of :lignite is operated 20 miles norih | this section cannot but marvel why | car cannot be discounted, as it gives tion the visit about two we now growing by leaps and — co iamohet or me . cf a party headed hy a man former-' owned by the state. Some of it bounds and the estimate is made | Of 2% !mmense territory -on three! jy actively connected with the Ana-.witt be sold at auction in October : ye ren re | ' > s rvisi well founded and that this that this year the production of | sides without a rival, which is prac-| onda company’s. m'ne at+ Belt. | and we understand it'will all be put der the supervision of-Mine Host . ® ith ate! a ~ : wheat in Montana will reach forty | Se eae adtiae uss, state He-had no hesitation in.expressing ypon the market as soon as title is ~_ aceasta to! his opinion that coal existed here: peceived by the state. Live business men will make no} . ey 5 . : oo : EEE was |not too great to make it a-payiM€ jand extgnds immediately north of : : “mistake in establish m 2S | «as . : : 3 iMr. W ‘ a stock- ¥ p f istake_in blishing themselves | proposition, eee object of his! town aad no finer agricultural land | Fr elch, who is also a stock ‘ocksy Puts Bawa first Well > ithe near future, and especially from! —, . ; a i settled upon, have demonstrated | the time the trains are running. | with the view of putting down a!iro5 at the sales cannot be doubt-) No country weekly can genuine-| without the neighborhood corres- | ould ‘ We hope to see every, would sufprise even OUF OWN Ped | Hart of thi ssection represented in d : ple. e : : the Review and we extend a_cor- | and placed In Operation for the en- | good live town i§ worth having | Bring in’ your prize grains and’dial invitation to send in such con- | terprise. ; jalong, not for p course, but as an evidence of yood Give us ihe news und we'll The soil of the Geraldine terti-| About two years ago the. proper- ty was acquired. bv the - Winchell | tory is exceedingly fertile, a clay Springs Land company, the princi | loam of from fo two to six feet in pal stockholders of which are David | depth, resting upon a_ subsoil of Hilger of Lewistown and Roy F.j|clay. Much of it is impregnated lary of Great Falls. From this|with lime, adding to its fertility. the company,. purchased the lana | confidence of the settlers in another | adjoining the Springs for townsite | bountiful crop. | | purposes. ; : The state is a large owner.of land | Owing to its location, being~“al-| in this vicinity, but is disposing of | ¢An Agricultural District — and Lewistown upon the new Mil-| Several thousand acres were sold f } | : h Cl waukee line, and because of itsilast year and more is listed to be | O ig ass | having a much greater area of agri- | sold this coming fall. Infact, this ; cultural lands tributary to it than/entire section, stretching north and | t | been named Geraldine, there was;and for twenty miles in the oppo- site direction, is as fine a body of} 8 agricultural land as can be found| Farm Land Here to Rank in Value_with Best in Treasure Backed ear but little more than two months| in the state and in the course of a} State. Can’t be Otherwise Under Gonditions as They ago, and since that time there has| few years will be thickly populated |: : a a 4 Bound to Be | been a steady demand for them by/|and seodnetive of inaeniee Sarva! Are. Milwaukee Road Opening Up Fertile Country intending locators, until today near- ot farm produce. Those, familiar | and Giving Life ‘to Dormant Resources. ly two-thirds of the number laid out} with this part of the state declare oo land im and about this lo-| two stage routes, one to Lone Tree,|and manager of the Milwaukee The topography of the townsite | cality comes nearer in appearance, | 5 miles to the south, and the other) Land company, and of a quarter rare ‘is the air. iS almost leveh bench land, sur-!soil and character of grass to that! to Hawarden, 8 milés to the east, | section adjoining the townsite by F. G. Ranney, treasurer of the Chica- In the Clear Lake, Graceville,} go, Milwaukee & St. Paul. with equal dis- | fore the rise—an ideal site for such; section in Montana. Itis really a | Castle Rock, Eagle Bluff, Hawas-| The section is well watered, the upon a smaller; purposes and presenting no physi-/ continuance of the Judith, which it! den, Square Butte and Big Sag dis-| climate is healthful and invigorat- Even the | cal barriers to interrupt the growth | adjoins on the west. |tricts, all neighborhoods of settlers | ing, and the inducements altogether The altitude at Geraldine is 3,170 surrounding the town, considerable | are such as to make this an inviting Spirited bidding and the amount. right in adding to | future may demand. Great Falls and 3,893 feet at ILew-'and the yields are so good that| susceptible of a high-class develop- region. Water can be obtained by wel!s|istown. The natural gateway to! farmers generally are not oniy -en-| ment which will make of it one of at w-reasonable depth:and it is the| the section at this time.is via Fort | couraged but enthusiastic as to the| the most desirable places for resi- | dence in the rapidly growing west. Except for a] That the officials of the Milwau-| Backed by such'an empire of natu- | Prise will be installed. jline,. The district is now served by! A, L. Flewelling, vice-president) here. . ‘WILL BE SEVERAL BRIGHT TOWNS ALONG NAW RY. egies i etna |WHEN WILL WE HEAR FIRST LOCOMOTIVE TOOT?) . | ON NEW LINE Friendly Race but Geraldine. | \Farmers and Town Folks as Well. | country.as well, is that of the time|kee line between Lewistown and the trams will We running here.! Great Falls may have, Geraldine There is no reason why coal injcreek country, 20 miles southeast Among the conflicting statements not only expects bet intends ‘to be. . it may be well to quote Vice-Presi- jthe principal trade point. There That: the territory tributary to! dent Goodnow, who visited here, will bea number of bright towns the line and two or heart of an’ agri- development. in| other excavations particles. of coal, Geraldine abounds in a variety of | recently. with President Earling’s' dotted - alonz | some as large as a man’s hand, are!resources whose development will party. That official made the state- three outstripping the rest. By Falls \its general | frequently encountered, and while | create boundless wealth is appar-; ment that the cars would be run- ' reason of its great scope of terri- ‘A few /it may require some depth to strike ent to even-a casual observer and’ ping to Geraldine from the Lewis- tory from which to draw, and- the aldine it turns to \.the beds, experts who have exam-'the possibilities of the town’s twn end some time between the! friendly interest ofmen of ‘means, of such a favorable: ist of October and the rst of No-! backed bya live wire bunch of local ; boosters, wé expect to be It. The location of the tov. is 64 _scarcely overshoot, the mark in his: ceived by the people of this sec- miles from Great Falls and 75 milés The Belt coal field, carrying a rosy predictions of the future. tion. ‘from Lewistown—far enotigh away ————— | President Earling’s party in five; not to be overshadowed by these | autos was chaperoned by David growing cities, yet close enough to Hilger in his handsome Premier be in near touch with good jobbiug They canle as far as Geral-: points. _You hear on all sides the expres- _sion, ‘Geraldine will make a good easterly to Lewis- | State Land Here in Line to Sell \Way Up. The uninform@d who first visit! , dine along the line on a tour of in- / spection, Catef Engineer Baker ac- , nF soo the Gificials. At Ger- town.” There must be some, sub- companying z aa Dew stantial basis for this prevailing im- | aldine they had dinner at the eW pression, We, ourselves, believe | Drop Inn at Winchell springs, un- the opinion so generally voiced is. town i yyy Neale 7; ‘ larae. Will be the most important point W.D. Welch. Mr. Hilger is large (on the 1r49-mile stretch the Milwau- ly interested inthe Winchell Springs | kee is now covering with its splen- Land company, whose affairs are| did railroad system. looked after by our local townsman, | i of Geraldine. i ¢ : of the land is apparentl s of our lecation| ‘celbiesipdiaielesctiees meg 7 In this connectjon.ve wake Men: untaken, since it is among. the fin- ‘S AZO! ect tracts found here. The land is P- 'in- commercial quantities ata depth; afore than a township of such | : - i | . . | a e TS tageous point and; Visit at the time Was to examime the! oan be found in the west than this, holder in the company. '—“Po Fred Yockey must be given | ‘Phe party returned the same day’ the credit of determining the ques- a rapid growth in _territory in this immediate vicfnity body. That it will bring good fig- d ; . : to their special at the end of the\tion of watet supply in town.. At | track, 28 miles out from‘Lewistown. | his residence in South Geraldine at Country News. | drill to considerable depth and test,.q and when the land adjoining . | ° j , } rors , . . v {the ground forcoal. He behieved | the town is offered, we may look} Mr. ee a fav pia an a deptheof 35 feet he struck a good the most favorable locality for the! 5, sore fancy prices, ‘as it tas | DECneee with the character o i e | How of water aod nuw that be bas venture was. a few miles gast of) jrospective country and.the crops he saw cut-) paved the way there\wiil be doubt- of a home paper | | values aside from its}. ne Branlenec ts aot PAaPel | Geraldine on Flatcreek, and before | agricultural features ‘which ing the trip and expressed his pleas-' jess a number of wells put down by residents which will supply our . | will . 3 : | taking his departure stated that an! .ommend it to buyers. webare complime pakige Sohail’ d outfit would be brought in this fall; (90d land butting up against al Ea i needs until such time as a water } | ‘ . * un ¥ } Crew Comes to Put m Little Bridges. svstem is put in, with its morte anywhere, and that is the situation | _A bridve crew and outfit came in| modern coaveniences and greater send your name | shi lies “tes : : . via Benton last’ week and made, protection froim fire. 7 | The possibilities of striking oil pcre m : fick ; . : : pubfication, of! so-withj ; deh Petes, wae lcamp at Square Butte. They will; .The Yocke: weil is now being | or gas are also-withio the province) . {putin the little bridges and will cemented by the-contractors, Bers:- of reason, as such discoveries have! If you want to push a good thing | work this way, expecting to reach lund & Bens np, and the depen of | been recently made in the Arrow, along, subseribe for the Review. the Pats: abaut two moat Watel ls wdwus 62 sec, ~ a ‘
