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Show TO THROW OPEN A RESERVATION HAVRE, Mont., Dec. 1. According to advices received In tho city today from Washington, D. C. ordors havo been Issued for tho throwing open to settlement of the Fort Asslnnlbolno military reservation comprising about 200,000 acres In tho central part of Chouteau county, south of Havre. Tho tract is comprised of some of tho most fertile agricultural land of northern nor-thern Montana and Is well watcrer. Although the abandonment of the reservation res-ervation aa a military post has long been opposed by the people of Havre It has been demonstrated plainly that Its utilization for agricultural purposes pur-poses would prove far more beneficial to tho stato than Its maintenance as an army post. For a long period tho post has been manned by an insignificant insignif-icant force. |