The Harlowton news. [volume], June 04, 1909, Image 2

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A GROSS MIS
REPRESENTED
Former Montanna Tells of Ceautry
to Eastern Newspaper Man
Who Exaggerates.
Mr. Oakley Giles, who folmerall)
lived on the Musselshell, spoke o1
conditions in Montana to a newspa
per man, who has so tangled and
twisted the facts, as to make the re
port rediculous to those who live in
Montana. The report came out it
the Waldo County Herald, published
in Belfast, Maine. It is not possible
that Mr. Giles could have had such a
ruthless disregard for the truth as tc
be responsible for the publication.
The writer must either have been
stung or is suffering from that dread
ful malady, "the snakes." In giving
the gist of Mr. Giles conversation,
the reporter says in part:
"Montana is a land of diversiflec
conditions that have been changing.
for as irrigation has come into mort
general use, the humidity of the at
mosphere has increased so that when
twenty years ago, no dew was ever
seen, heavy dews are common now.
The thermometer at times has beer.
known to go to 120 in the shade, at
Billings, and some times drops to &:
below zero. At one time, Mr. Giles
drove a stage several days with the
thermometer registering 45 degrees
below.
Blizzards and strong winds are a tea
ture of this country. At Big Timber
the wind blows heavily, in fact, al
most a continuous gale the principal
part of the time, and quite a portion
of the time, a pedestrian will find
some difticulty in keeping connection
with the earth.
When Mr. Giles first went to Mon
tana the great cattle and sheep ranch
es covered immense areas, and ranch
men in favorable locations, when the
winters were not too severe, made
money. Now this is all changed, the
largest ranches are having difficult3
to pay any dividends, and a Mr. Par
bury of White Sulphur Springs,owner
of 30,000 sheep, recently told Mr. Gilei
that nineteen sheep men out of twen
ty were all mortgaged up, and ranch
es with as many as 20,000 sheep were
fortunate if they could break even
last year.
The cattle ranchmen are but little,
if any, better off. He told us of one
ranchman with 1,700 acres of land,
some 200 head of cattle, whose ex
penses for the last three years had
been some $2,000 more than his in
come.
The ranchmen build their houses,
as a rule, on the lower land, in what
they term the brush, consisting prin
cipally of cottonwood. These low
lands are flooded in springtime when
the snow melts on the mountains,
and Mr. Giles mentioned hicidentally
that for weeks his bedroom had four
inches of water over the floor, and
the boys could play with boats In the
sitting room.
The workmen on the ranches are
hired by the month. They must sup
ply their own bedding and are given
berths in a bunk-house where they
can wrestle with bed-bugs or other
undesirable tenants. But though a
man engages his services by the
month, he may get notice to move at
any time, and that notice comes in
the form of a check handed him by
the boss, no words passed, payment
in full for time to date, means move,
and the employee literally picks up
his bed and travels.
Supposing you get up in the morn
ing and on your door you find the fig
ures "1779". That means that you
better move before the sun sets that
night or you may never see it set
again. It is a short notice, right to
the point, and they invariably move.
Winter wheat is a great crop. In
the vicinity of Lewistown, Montana.
70,000 acres were broken last year for
winter wheat. It required :5 steam
plows all summer to do the word.
The advertising of dry farming has
been so effectively done that eastern
ers are continually going to the west
and buying benchlands which the ac
climated westerner knows by exper
ience are practically worthless for
farming.
Mr. Giles told us of one ranch of
2,000 acres recently bought up by a
speculator, to cut up into small farms
and sell to eastern tenderfeet. This
land is to be sold for the purpose of
irrigation. That's the story told to
the purchaser,but as a matter of fact,
the owner of the ranch could never
get sufficient water for personal use.
The easterner is looked upon as a
proposition to be exploited. He fur
inshes the money and is the stranger
that is taken In, and this perhaps is
well illustrated by the following.
Mr. Giles recently asked a man
whose brother had sold a tract of
land of this kind, to be divided and
sold to easterners, what these new
comers were going to do for water for
Irrigation purposes, and what do you
suppose the reply was. "Why, they
will get most g- d---dly fooled."
,, Mr. Giles personally irrigated over
e 2,000 acres of land during two su m
mers, therefore he knows the Ins and
outs of both irrigated and dry farm
ing.
Of alfalfa on irrigation, they get
two crops. Potatoes grow bountifully,
but are never shipped outside of Mon
tana? in fact, the market for farm
produce outside of wheat. wool and
7 beef, is practically a home market,
the cost of transportation is too great
to permit shipping to larger markets.
Prices on everything the farmer
has to sell rules much lower than in
' the east, while groceries, and in fact
)l everything that has to be purchased
' from stores, is much higher. No won
d der the cow-boys wear longhair for it
e- costs 50 cents for a hair cut and 25
n cents for a shave.
i While wages seem high to eastern
men, as a rule those who are now
le working in the west for wages, tind
8 almost universally that at the year
tc end they have saved very little if any
n. thing, and many an easterner, after
;n lighting an uphill battle for years, too
d- proud to turn his face toward his
ig eastern home, has simply closed the
n. last chapter of his life by his own
hands.
RC Around Harlowton last year eleven
g. men were found dead with their
ri boots on. Not shot, but they had
t- simply laid down and died, or com
ri mitted suicide.
et They have a method of removing
undesirable neighbors that is very ef
fective.
at With all Mr. Giles' extensive ex
6: perience In the west, and after spend
e` ing years and years there he states
he that in his opinion the State of
et Maine and Waldo County is one of
the best places in which to live that
'a' he has ever seen.
er Mr. Giles also states that he would
al- strongly advise the young men of
Waldo County to stay on their farms,
on for he believes that the farmers of
nd Maine are making more clean money
on than are the ranchers in Montana.
Editor's Note:
>n- After writing the above article, it
h- was forwarded to Mr. Giles with a re
`h- quest to make any eliminations, cor
he rections, or additions, as we wanted
de to have the story stat e just the facts
he from start to finish, and the above
1t3 article has the approval of Mr. Giles.
ar- In returning this article,he sends a
ter photograph of the home where he re
le. sided for four summers. We want
en- our readers to compare this with the
ýh- tidy New England homes, with all
ere their comforts and advantageous sur
'en roundings.
If families in Waldo County will
live in shacks, save every dollar, and
put it into increasing the fertility of
their land and the production of
greater crops, be willing to get along
without carpets, pianos. and other
articles that they deem necessities,
but which are really luxuries, they
can lay up more money, any year in
Maine, profits computed on the basis
of capital actually invested, and hour
for hour of work, placed in the proper
columns, than any farmer can make
in the west.
We make the above statement,
without fear of successful reputation
strong as it may seem. The Eastern
farner gets so much larger price for
what he raises, buys the necessities
for his family so muca cheaper, han
dles so much less produce to get the
same money, that he can win over
us Western brother hands down, if
h3 is willing to suffer the same priva
tions and lives as the Western farmer
in the new sections, live."
It is a matter of common knowled
ge throughout the west that a great
many eastern psople, not all, but a
large proportion, becuased by inacti
vity and dry rot, have erroneous ideas
of condition; in the west. This fact
does not explain the above article.
EIther Mr. Giles has played upon the
imagination of the easterner with
the intent to excite curiosity and at
traot attention to himself, or the
editor is addicted to seeing things
that are not around. The writer of
this article should change the even
tenor of his ways and so live that
when at last lie passes away his
his friends will not be immediately
and uproariously reconciled to his
death.
W. C. HUSBAND,
LAWYER
Will practice in all state and fe
deral courts. Conveyancing cal
lections Corporation law and real
estate. Office over State Bank.
Harlowton, - Montana
KENT & SHANLEY
ARCHITECTS
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JUNE 11th 1909.
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At HARLOWTON, MONTANA,
JUNE 11th 1909
Meals at all hours
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E. R O RV IK, Proprietor
Lyon's Block.
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may not burn; You don't in
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you will die; Come in and let
me tell you about the best poli
cy there is written, and how you
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S. L. Hodges, Harlowtou, Meitana.
Order your bread, pies, doughnut.',
cream puffs and pastries by tele
phone before 10 o'clock a. in., and
gat a prompt delivery. At the
GERMAN BAKERY
Our Bread is also for sale at the
Urner Mercantile Co's. store, Mar
halls and fHarlowt . Grocery Co
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CITY DRAY AND TRANSFER LINE
Harlowton, - Montana
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