Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-09-30 | Page 7 | Arid Lands in Montana

" l W V' jtB SBSSSHBJJ ARID LANDS IN MONTANA. L hi 1 W Conditions Herotoforo Unknown to Jj T IH Agricultural Bureau Discovered. U '51 f,a H Washington, Sept. 27. -Arid land con- J MW MM dlllnns lu cmtral Moptani, heretofore S 15.1. unknown lo the Department of Agrlcul- H, tj J IBl turo wero discovered In a tour of In i il 1 pBJ srirtlon whlilr Elnood Mend, In charge i Vih UUM of Irrigation work of the department. A 'illli hns JUHt completed Mr Mead says IL i Ifl BBB thut he found much larger art s ot arid u trulf Bill land (litre with crops lu successful 9 J-jU-H growth on them than ho -. id cvef sup- fflfsllS HB posed were nsslhi in a majority of U'nHiHI sBsHI scusons, 1il says, crops can utow oil fliill'P BB1 theso tracts without any irrigation, and WII4 wllh very little water, much less thun it' fill 'i' BB1 Is ncltially ri quired for growing crops, Wll L tpeso crops can bo gtuwrr very success If t I1 HH fully every scar The area Involved Is 5ti 11 ,y along the mountain slopes south and Ik tl ! east of Grent Tails, Mont. ( 'Ah The Department of Agriculture re. I "rp girds tho discovery of these arid land f 'j conditions as Important und co-opera- i 3 . tlvo work will I).' undertaken by the 1 ' Government It Is purposed to study 15 il tho means of saving und making nvall. ij ) riblo Hie water supply from the moun- f hi 1 HH tain slopes. Government work wilt be .BiHi'.; I under the direction of Prof Tortler, TkiM, BB Iho director of tho Montana Agrlcultu- Plhir BJ nil Experiment station blmllur non :ii 1 BB Irrigated arid laud crops nre grown In I'MHil . BB I (he Milk River volley In Montana and fiiSl'jl V 1 BH in many tun ts nf the Dukotas. bitlllll HHl