| Show A GREAT I FUTURE f fAW AW AWAITING ITI G Mot MONTANA T A Mitchells Hopeful View Is That She Will Lead Western States Slates him II In III IRRIGATION Atm AHU MINING Her lIer III Big Streams to lie h on time the Thirsty Thirst Soil During the Next Ten Years About Small SomalI Homes Special Correspondence nce Washington July Jul 2 The Tho great cow cop cowper copper per Ier silver sliver and gold mines of ot Montita the Treasure State of or time the Union po potent potent tent as nil has haft been their Influence In her list amid hll they ore art yet yel far from their maximum output value must soon SOOIl take a II second place ilace In tho the Fluids states resources II It Il L Is des dos destiny tiny timmy to be he ODD of the Iho richest agricultural tural states slates In iii tho time Union As the time ns of Colorado now the foremost state In III the tho production nf ot precious metals line has already outstripped 1 her mines so In a Il few rew years will farming fainting lend her mines With of o surpassing ln fertility In which agricultural nt food has s lain stored for with will nj 11 drenching rains time to t lench them theft way lIn a and with w a it I inn gui wa tem from front tha Ih t tain i null snow anna sno which fall tall upon tho ho high and Inter sheds nf or the tho Conti Continental divide tat fat rattle cattle and op splendid si Id fruit trIm it heay imea y grim I ins and varied agricultural products will be he conic come widely Idely famous CHEAT Time Tha next ten tell years said a IL 1 prom prominent nent official of tho thu government reclamation tion service In p of the greet great present arid coming coining development of ot tho time tar fAr northwest will see Montana lend nil all the tho western states In iii the RIcO of her Irrigated land Her liar future IH his assumed and nn l brilliant She flue linK has tho the tholand theland land and elio ehe has hils time the water all that ate ale III needed In the t hi mid a iii region to imis n n fabulous tr bli wealth wi Montana hits has an area equal to 10 that I of ot Franco Sho Site has ham It hits has often been beell stated bv liv authorities with all nil her great grent water valer supply conserved made to 10 Irrigate Irrl te her rich lands land room for or ns as dense u IL population Ion as us that of France Over Oer of ot this great state Is s drained by Iy the time Missouri river riser and and Its big LI tributaries such Buch ns nil the tho Yellow Hone time the Jefferson the Milk rivet liver awl and other uther branches Strong risers these lire are rushing down clon out of their tim m moun mOlln mountain tutu tain the the 1011 time the lug Dig Horn and the time Wind VInd river at nt elevations of nuel and amid set feet the thc snows ore perpetual lI melting und r time the sum I liter mer suns stilts and furnishing a constant wa wn water I ter in III the thc late IntI sum summer mer miter when It Is III most needed for Cor Irrigation Irrl I lion tion Much has hits already been accomplished fatted by h cooperative effort In iii lion among amnon The Irrigated to 10 tIm tho census cs lisle hut Increased I dining the tho t two years ear nt nl the Ihl Into rato of about acres n a year and 1 now aggregates acres This Timia has bias been accomplished by hy the cooperation of small email limn 11 communities ft anti and some semite of the time most macat successful examples ore seen ni nl a astick such stick places pIli cell as mis and timid Chinook In to the tho a Groat rent Milk River valley where farmers have combined taking up land lond under tinder time the homestead home law lat amid 1 constructing their own Irrigation works thus thull owning the land and the time water pitying no rent relit or tribute to 10 water com coin or water vater bond holders hohl rl S COST OK OF OI HOMES JIOM ms Most Mo t of ot these works have heen been elm PlO pie diversion lon propositions without ox ex dams anti tho cost COal has l huen 1111 en envery very er light land Inn l reclamation avei aging according to the he tic 1100 census hut hilt l 92 13 per ret acre The opportunities are legion reton where bands ot of 20 or nr W 40 G or tOO 00 big ing farmers with a little money and with theIr strung strong arms IIrmA and nil good teams may build diversion or em storage dumi and lead tho the water out upon claims building up 1111 homes upon tho limo desert which will make each Inch and every ono of at them and wealthy The Tho great productivity of lands Is shown by h tho time eon cen 11 MilS aims Time The he told I amount Invested lit In III I a ditches I I In III Montana minim up ii p In to June 1 umu I 1 1900 I while the Iho total alue aImie nt ot Irrigation for tor time the om year ISO ISOl wits watt wn At the Ihl rate rille of ut Increase In farming tn amid Irrigation In time the state during time tho last decade the time 10 yenta yearn will vili see R cultivated men area tre trebled bled hIed If It not 1101 even oell lea Ing out nut of consideration th time tho nat reclamation tion Uon works orbs proposed by time federal gov government gO under the time national law In CHANGING TIll THi COURSE OF NAi N Ai TURK The Tho project for tor storing the flood floodwaters waters aters of the time Milk river In northern Montana under time thc direction of Cyrus C e 1 Dabb of the time geological survey Is III ono nile of time tho great groat works Investigated by time the government engi nHI engineers oven evell before the tin 0 of lit tho time national Irrigation act net This huge darns damns canals nail and will ill reclaim when alien carried to 10 full rul completion a mm very wry largo large area probably half hiatt a me 1 million acres of exceedingly rich land In III time thc already famous Milk River liver valley It Il will he Ime n a 1 famous engineering exploit by hy I which tha tho atom now lowing Into tin thu thoRl Rl and amid thence Into Inlo Hudson bay will wIil be bo carried Into tho tim Missouri basin bastit ultimately reach time the Gulf of ot Mexico The rho government has taken up imp II the time Fort in tim eastern Montana mind and North Dakota Is III likewise preparing to 10 spend III In the thc 1 project t which will vilt reclaim some of ot the lands of or southern Mon lIon Montana tana Those These are 1110 the mom ad nl of It the tho government works In lit various other purls of th time i Mute the I am aI making and surveys Investigating sites RII re cc HI am ensA ens ensA A serious menace however hOIer to 10 time the e of the lies In Inthe Inthe the tendency to land absorption nb Into Inlo i mu imri vii to holdings which A hInt have resulted largely through tho Iho abuse lit of II the th desert dl ort hind IlInd act and rIll UP of ot time the homestead under which hl h government land Is 18 entered by b maid and dummies stud and 1111 1 not lIot by II actual settlers W W V president pre of ot time the Montana Fruit Grow Growers ers eta association In a n recent address cit elt cited cited ed 11 11 II great in lit with an all acreage each of If and showed time the which would hn imao hlo o come conic to the tho state hind these theBo been beell settled up UI into thousand smith small farms and occupied by and their families There nelc seems scents lI tu to be lie a n strong sentiment throughout the state for time tho of these laws leaving only onh tha thu original homestead law which hns hils worked so O Oha In ha building up lip irrigation colonies In iii tho tha Milk River valley IRRIGATION INCREASES MINING All of ot this thin great promise of ot culture will however but add to Mon Moo MonI I tanas attic nn nil n R mining mimming state Speak Speaking lug InK front from rom a n miners standpoint said time tha geological survey I UIe nho quoted surface hits has been but In lit Indifferently differently 8 We o know that whole mountains exists of ore too ex ox to work because tho time cost cmil of ot liv living ing imig for man moan anti and beast Is II too high The Thi Th state stale hAil hns thousands If it other oIlier mountains of ot which I w We know little or mit nothing Montana Is In a 1 vast ast country of Itself Itse time Iho mountains of Its western unIt cover thousands 1 amid 1 tens of of cr miles Now extend agriculture throughout the state stale lead lemul the tho great out oUI ot of their deep channels spread them over 01 sonic some millions of oC acres of ot arid soil soli this mountain wealth ran can an he hI im turned to tn mans rail railroads railroads roads will penetrate time the deBert amid Montana can utmost almost supply tile tho world with lh time the metals GUY OUY i 3 LI |
