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Show Fine Type of Western Montana Pioneer A fine type of the pioneer to whom i western Montana owes much is It. A. j Suthelin of Oreat Falls, editor of the j liocky Mountain Husbandman, of , which the first copy was issued No-' No-' vember lio, ISTo, at Diamond City. He v-as born in 1S-H in La Mine, Mo. A Missouri "rebel" "bushwhacker" scout and bodyguard of Bill Jackson, the son of Clayborn F. Jackson, war governor of Missouri when the Civil war broke out. lis hope of a home and competency for life in ids native state having been swept away by the srrug-! srrug-! gle for the "Lost Cause." Mr. Suther-j Suther-j lin fitten up a couple of ox teams and I a couple of canvas covered wagons, j loaded ihe.n with supplies In March, i ISOo, and faced the setting sun to ! bury himself alive In the wilds of the I lfocky Mountains In Montana, the land j of gold. He settled near Diamond City. In ISiir, he cut an irrigating f i f . l , ' !' i - -' , j ! ditch which Is still doing service j today. He and his brother abandoned the 8,000-pound "prairie schooner." i Invented the trail-wagon and went freighting. Next be drove cattle from Texas. j In 1ST" he organized Western Star Orange No. 1 on Deer creek, Missouri ' valley, and during 1ST4 organized 23 other granges. A year later at the ; j Instance of a committee he established the Rocky Mountain Husbandman. j I In 1ST!) the plant was moved lo While Sulphur Springs. After three years ' he moved to Oreat Falls to help promote the irrigation of a miLUaa and a Uaif I ' cres ia conbero Moulaua. I |