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Show CENTRAL MONTANA Wo came to this country, in 1910 from North Dakota where we had residod for twenty-five years. The first summer was very hot and dry all over the northwest, and the greater part of the Dakotas and Alberta Al-berta did not raise enough grain for seed and all the west and south of us wero in as-bad, if not a worse condition. Our crop was a light winter wheat yielding from ten tp forty four bushels bush-els por acre. Alfalfa a nover falling, crop was good, tho proceeding year tad been an abundant harvest, tho following years, 1911, 1912 hnd 1913 havo all been prosperous. When wo settled near Wlnnett," fo ty miles north ol Musselshell and bIx-ty-flve miles cast ot l.owla.ton, thero was not a shapk In sight, our nearest near-est nolghbor an old raach mall was two miles distant anri the noxt six miloe away, nojv all TOe IVd Is taken tak-en and tho pfeoplo Jubilant over the present prospects. When we filed on nearly eight hundred acres of land wo thought it a aeml-nrld citantry that would bo easy to sccuro title to, hnd wo expected to leavo ono ot the i family to run a small stock ranch and valued It at ono thousand dollars per quartor sectloa, wo are now delighted de-lighted with our homo nnd bcltevo It to be worth flvo times our first estimate, esti-mate, wo brought sixty dollars worth of chttlo with us, and could now sell them for tour hundred, neither horses or cattle cost us one dollar for food or shelter last winter and are In fine condition, our hogs havo been much moro profitable we landed with oar money and have mado our way and havo fow debts hnd no mortgages and with two partners we aro putting 'In three hundred acres ot grain, many others with small capital havo done far hotter, wo are delighted with our nIghbors, our climate and our prospects pros-pects hnd expect to put In tho rest of i our days In Montana. Yours truly, S. F. DEER, Pastor M. E. Church Grass Itango, Montana. m |