The Gavelyte, April 1910

1'111'. 1,. \ l">I,) I I., "1. ::it .J,,'i'', 1\ll,, f11r ih·,•1 .· t:t:i,!171~.I. I: fo, <'oppPr $:-,i1, ,fi,!11,(1 1: 111d f111 l1•ad .• 1 1,;:::t .:..!. :1 .\ : t 1•ndtl.\ d1•1·r1•,1 ·ing a1111111nt nl prnrl11d. hav1• 111 1·11 1•11m1ng into th1 ·::i 11• Thi> ,·omparis,111 of food prodn<'lR ;J,qw thiM w,•11: 'lh1• Vl'tilgt– "h1•al ) iPld for l,Jw l nited .'talPR 111 I !J(l7 waH fo11rtPPn lin hPI.. for ~1011- t·rna it w:i:-- t ,·pnty- •ight and 11ight tl'nths hu. lwlH, a valu of $12.21i again t .•·~:1 .:•;. For ontR in 1~)07 twenty-thrre and sevf>n-t nth~ again. t fort ·-n1n•• hn:lwl:-< !''or bHrh) in I !107 twPnty-thr e and eight-tPnthR against thirty– t>i•• ht ,111!) ~j ·- Plllh~. Un thP farm hen:> a more flattning compari.'1111 i ma<h~. But we mu. t rPnwmlwr that \ e put more timP on our land, as the hoyH mu, t b kept liu~y \\'ill not give you the figure as you might gPt homeRic·k Tht:>n' is a rno,·emE.'nt to get hardier grain::; that need no artitic-ial wat- Pring This has harl very goo<! ucces . ome crops la:t year at a "Dry Farming l'ongri>s," ho,red a good r turns a it more fortunate neighhor. Thu rain fall for thiE country i about fourte n inche.. You do.1bt]P s wonder if mineral wealth i~ all that is in the ground. l 'arbl)llaceou~ matter i here also . Coal i u abundant about here that a kind of ''lignite" stand above the groun.:!. By ·\ ignal Butte", the highest point about here, there are several mines. A bout a mile from the farm there i-, a coc:11 mini> . Coal - Coal, everywhere, yet we had a coal faniine la t winter, when the switchman's strike held us up. Apples, etc, are grown herf'. We have had apples all Winter although they werf' high priced. All fruit~ and vegetables are kept in a kind of build– ed hou e heaped O\'er with earth, called a ''root cellar". There is one here · at the farm about forty by one hundred t.venty feet, o you ee that there i , no danger of 'curvy. 'o far we have ceen only the Ea ' tern part of Montana and noted the general topiL- . In the Weatern part we find the mountain" and mine-. The mountain are well . upplied with timber. These mountains supply the riv– er-.:_· and irrigation ditchec. The main source of wealth. then, is in th .... munntain.:; . The inigation companie. are not the whole.ale monopolie, that teel and oil are, but in their lfl~ser capacity they are almost as grievous to t he ust>r of water a these. One buy' a fa rm. He goes to look over bis crop ; there are none on account of having no water. He rushe to the office of the water company. There he find that he muct pay from :2 50 to ·5 an