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CUT BANK PIONEER PRESS
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Vol.. II. No. 'J:t
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CUT HANK, TETON COUNTY, MONTANA. KRIDA V. DEC. It», 1910
*2.00 THE YEAH
Tlie Ferment
Is Stirring
Firstt taint flush of Dawning
New Era Seen in Present
Building Activity
The ferment is working. Cut
liank has entered a period of prog
ress which its location and surround
ings amply justify. It is today the
metropolis of Northern Teton county
and this distinction it is bound to
maintain. Indeed il is several laps
ahead of all neighbor towns in its
spurt down ihe highway of prog
ress.
Cut lîauk is destined to lie the
most important point bet ween Havre
and Kalispell. Today it has the
largest ami most pretentious hotel |
in this section of .Montana. There j
is now being constructed in Cut |
Hank a *20,000 brick school build
ing. This buildiug will be complet
ed long before the opening of the
next school year and its capacity
and the curriculum that will be in
stituted will mean that families from
far and near will take advantage of
the exceptional school opportuni
ties and become residents of the
town. Ii will he a big considera
tion for homeseekers with families,
as this will he the largest and best
equipped school in the homestead
region in Northern Montana.
The State's sale of lots in Cut
Hank, about a month ago, gave the
residents of the tow n an opportu
nity to purchase lot» for business
places and homes and with the op
filing of next spring there will be
inaugurated a campaign of build
ing—both business (daces and res
idences of the better class—such as I
.
Cut liank has never before witness-j
od.
Even now, almost in mid-winter,
the building campaign is going on
apace. There is more building ac
tivity in Cut ISauk today than iu
any town in this section of the
state.
The receipts of the (ireat North
ern's local office, show au increase
iu business at Cut Hank of over au
hundred per cent, over that of a
corresponding period last year.
There are about a hundred aud fifty
men employed in the railway ser
vice here—including roundhouse,
depot, industrial tracks; pumpiug j
station and section crew. The rail- I
way payroll here aggregates *10,- ;
oOO.OO per month. j
Work on the government pro
jeets on the reserve is being pushed
with great rapidity. The allotment
work is about completed. A mon
ster reservoir dam for the storage of
waters for the Two Medicine pro
ject is now under way. It will not
be long before this tine agricultural
domain is thrown open for settle
ment aud the very choicest portion
id' it is contiguous to Cut Bank.
When this reserve is thrown open
it will give this town a mighty for
ward impetus.
So^ all iu all, the future looks
roseate for Cut Bank. It possesses
advantages that few towns in this
section possess. Its people are
aware of these advantages and they
are alert aud enthusiastic. With
the exceptional advantages possessed
by the place and the spirit of har
mony and enthusiasm that prevails
at this time, nothing short of a great,
unforeseen catastrophe can mar our
future progress.
One of the Newer Cut Bank Buildings
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Cut'Bank s New $3£>,000 Hotel, the mo^t pretentious in North
ern Montana B "' lt by HurJ ® GUho "
Improvements Under Way;
$20,00j brick school, fittest in Northwestern Mont-ana
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Opera hall and club rooms, large and modern
Store building, for Teton Commerial Co.
Two business buildings, F. C. Case
Office and residence, Dr. W. A. Hulbush
A*number of residences in various parts of town
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All Records Smashed
The books of Cashier Jackson show that during the
first thirteen days of December the moneys collected for
freight amounted to $2,094.55 and ticket sales to $47/.20.
On December 1*\ there was paid into the office tot ft eight
the sum of $707.80. "So far this month all previous rec
ords have been sii^astied" said Mr, Jackson Lu a Pioneer
Press representative.
Make It Unanimous
At their present session the Board of county commiss
ioners will order an election to be held in C ut Bank, for
the purpose of deciding upon incorporation of the tow n
into a city. Upon the question of erecting a new school
building here every vote cast was in the affirmative and on
the incorporation question it o ught to be the same.
If you are a scoffer and unbeliev
er in revelation and the teachings
of the Christian church, why, stay
out of Church. If you are not a
believer in the agricultural possibili
ties of Montana, why, stay out of
j Montana.
I shoes a n dlSoots made waterproof
; by th(i viw . 0 , ,, r( , t . esis at the Harness
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"Good Prospect"
Says O'Keefe
lî. E. O'Keefe, a well known Chi
nook attorney, was a visitor here
Thursday. "You have a tine pros
pect here'" said Mr. O'Keefe, "aud
it looks to me as if your future
growth ought to be steady and per
manent." Mr. O'Keefe was on his
way home from Kalispell. where he
had a case in district court.
Airship Prices ior Local Lots
At the State's Land sale held at Choteau about a month ago,
Herbert Strain, proprietor of a leading Great Falls department
store, paid $2900.00 for fifty feet fronting on Broadway Street,
Cut Bank, or at the rate of $58.00 per running foot. Tracts a half
mile out sold for $71.00 per acre.
Gut Bank the Gateway
To a Great Reservation
Tins is the Gateway City by Way of a great transcontinental rail
way to the beautiful and prolific Blackfeet Reservation
The Blackfeet Indian reservation j
is located in the northwestern cor
ner of Teton county. The main ^
range of the I Jock y mountains, the j
most beautiful and picturesque
mountain region in America, makes
up its western border, Canada walls
it in on the north and the Marias
river and its tributaries compose
the greater part of its eastern and
southern boundary. It has a total
area of 959,044 acres. The bill for
opening this reservation for settle
ment was passed in March, 1907.
After the Indians have been allotted ,
their share of the lands upon the j
completion of the survey, the l>al- |
»nee, outside the 200,000 odd acres
withdrawn from entry for réclama- ;
tioii purposes, will be open for set
tlenient under the homestead, inin
eral and towusite laws, except tim
ber lands, which are to be sold by
sealed bids for not less than #5.00
per acre.
The I'nited States
reclamation
service has already under way the
construction of two large irrigation
works in the Blackfeet Indian res
ervation, the St. Marys and the
IJlackfeet. The St. Mary's located
in the northern part of the reserva
lion contemplates storage of the
Where The Cut Bank Joins the Manas-Down to the Missouri
Cut-Bank emptying Siito Two Medicine forming Maria
Teton Co. Montana
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Y uletide Spirit Hovers Over Cut Bank
If the cartoonists can be relied i
upou, good old Saint Nick, has
abandoned the faithful but com
paratively slow reindeers and sledges
which he has used all these ceutur
ies iu bringing heaps of happiness |
in the form of gifts from his far
northern home a u d instead has
adopted t h e modern manner of
travel—the airship.
Santa must have made a number
of hurried trips by night to Cut
liank within the past week or ' so.
All of a sudden the local shop win
dows have become resplendenr with
his wares in infinite variety and |
local youngsters are daily feasting
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their eyes upon the myriads of hand
some and useful things now on dis- 1
play. j
The drug store, the jewelry store
waters of the St. Marys lakes, on
the northeastern slope of the Kock
ies, and transmitting it by means of
a main canal to lands iu the eastern
part of the reservation and to lands
lying east thereof on the headwaters
of the Marias river. About 75,000
acres of this project will be located
in the Blackfeet reservation.
The irrigation plan of the Black
feet project involves the construc
tion of live irrigation systems, cov
ering l'i0,000 acres. The Two Med
icine, the largest of five units com
prising this project, will be the first
to be developed.
cümate, soil, bain fall, crocs
Much of the land within the res
ervation will produce large crops of
all northern grown grain, hay, fruit
and vegetables without irrigation,
the average annual rainfall being U>
inches. The soil is brown sand loam
underlaid with gravel at about four
feet below the surface. The land at
present is used almost wholly for
grazing large herds of cattle, horses
and sheep. Within the next five
years it will have been transformed
int > a thriving farming community:
settlers homes will dot the plains,
and the land will make them pros
perous.
aud all the stores in fact are show
ing in their window displays the
effects of Santa's visit. The Spirit
ot the \ nletide is iu and over Cut
Bank. Holiday shopping will be
the one theme for the next ten days
or so.
In this connection the Pioneer
Press would extend this morsel of
advice: First read the announce
ments in this number of the Pio
neer Press and then prepare to do
your shopping early. Secondly,
spend your money where you earn
it in (. ut l>atik, among the people
| whom you know and can trust (and
»'ho sometimes "trust" you.) They
will give you honest values. Thev
eannot affonJ ( , o otherwjse Tbev
1 wi n build your town aud add to
j storehouse ofmateriai things by so
doing.