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Show WHY BUTTE IS PROUD. Butte Mont., eit izens are proud of the faet that a carload of wbr-at, grown in Silver Bow county, lias been Hhipp'd to market, from "the grentest mining camp on earth." Butte has been in existence ex-istence for a long time. Away back in tho pi x ties pln'-er mining was carried on along Silver Bow creek and up nnd down MiHouIa gulfh, but no one neems to havfi thought nf growing wheat in the vicinity, evm wdien Hour was felling at fabulous priees. But the cereal can be grown iu Silver How county never-thep, never-thep, and the man who proved it received $f) per bushel for 1S'tO hush-els hush-els of first-clans grain. Of rouTse, there isn 't agricultural land enough in the vicinity vi-cinity of I'-utfo to entitle it to bo railed an agricultural region, but it is fair to presume all the tillafde, neres will be utilized and a considerable amount of nniall grain produced. Thin brings us to the thought t hp t some time in the dim and distant, future every little pat eh of land in the mountain country that, is capable of prndueing prop will be mis taining n man and his family. 11 is a mere question of increase in population and the neeewVily of finding home, way to make a living. The ttticnn of the F'.ulte experiment prove (hat. you never know what you can acorn plidi until you |